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Cool summer rain shower while in the hot tub. When full-time stay-at-home parenting, it is essential to find pockets of (sensory) pleasure.

Tan Lines 🖊️

 

I 💛 Tan Lines, (Highlighters & Sharpies).

Celestial zenith

 

Sukhasana - Easy Pose

Mothering (fathering, teaching, nannying, mentoring,) children is the ultimate sacrifice, but the equally zenith reward is never wondering if your life has purpose or meaning. 

She’s so misty

Standing Squat Pose on Tip Toes

It was a bustling, clamorous day at the pool with nary a place to unwind, but I lay myself on the one-and-only empty chaise longue and somehow the extra ‘static’ helped a Message come in sunny. As the other adults sympathized and the children splashed — HUSH — I experienced an UNVEILing amidst the MIST. An aha in the hubbub. 
 

Swedish

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess Pose with forward bend

Hands on ankles, arms follow leg shape

Lighten your hair in Summer by swimming (in salt water) often, often, often and - no rinsing - allow to sun-dry. Also, concentrated Chamomile Tea, Lemon Juice, raw Honey with Cinnamon, Olive Oil, diluted Hydrogen Peroxide 😉 (aka Sun-In) and … SUN SUN SUN.

Tried and True

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess with side stretch

LOST ?? Well, it’s no doubt when the outside influences are more rampant than ever and now inside our homes (phones). FIND yourself by returning to PERSONAL CLASSICS - YOUR tried and trues. Similar to the influencers you are compelled towards, who present their own (one or two) areas of mastery. 

Bug out

 

Mandukasana - Frog Pose

The refuge will be there waiting until next time. 

Bittersweet

 

Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana - One-legged King Pigeon Pose

All of a sudden, out of nowhere it feels like the beginning of the the end (of Summer break). The reclusive weeks in the chic bug-out are dwindling down to mere days. 

Open

 

OPEN up your energy. 

Less zealous

Taking NOTES from the MEN (who have fewer options and less zealous marketing). 

1. Pockets! - Perhaps even forgo a purse. 😱

2. Dresses and skirts (while they so contentedly stick with pants and shorts). 

3. Fewer colors. 

4. SMALLER CLOSETS. 

5. Denim.

 

Peppy steppy

Walk about the neighborhood. 

Clothing as KOSHA - SHEATH 

More PEP in my STEP this AM thanks to the husband who scooped up and brought back with him a small assemblage of attire from my main closet at home whilst there on a work day (I am on a month-long uninterrupted ‘reclusive’ vaycay). I didn’t realize how fatigued I was of my pathetic selection of duds (it is ASPEN, after all,) until I donned a neon swimsuit, gingham dress, silky cardi, pink suede sneakers and got a NEW LEASE ON LIFE!

Unfortunately? But powerfully! Clothing acts as a sheath - energetic layer - which can be used to our advantage (or disadvantage). 

P.S. The procuring of such items was made possible by strategic, color-coded closet organization (and periodic paring down,) allowing myself to plainly explain and my husband to effortlessly locate the 10 or so sought-after items in mere minutes via FaceTime. 🛍️ 

Purchase less, create more ✌️

SuperCareGiverHeroStar 🌟

 

Utthita Eka Padasana -  Standing Balance, One Leg Raised

As I watched another woman caregiving today (I had a few hours away from my own supportive duties,) it stopped me dead in my tracks how important, beautiful, and fulfilling it is - the work of caring for others. On my end, rearing my children nonstop has felt demanding and intolerable as of late, but the image of this smiling lady pushing a grinning older gentleman in his wheelchair on our wooded path was just what I needed to startle me back into recognizing our shared guardian superstardom. 🌟 

Present parent, calm kids 🎁