Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

August 23, 2025

๐Ÿชฒ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿชฒ

 

Beetle - symbolic of the sun rising each day. 
Creation, rebirth, renewal.
& current beastie bestie for the blondies in the family.

(Japanese?) Beetles you keep flying into our golden tresses — and I take it as a compliment. You like roses, grapes, hops, hydrangeas and ๐Ÿ‘ธ our hair. ๐Ÿ’›

August 22, 2025

Aspen Summer Soundtrack

 

Vrksasana - Tree Pose, with Gomukhasana - Cow Face Pose, arms 

Let your End of Summer Soundtrack be the rustling of the leaves. 

August 21, 2025

Benefits all

 

Visvamitrasana - Sage Visvamitra’s Pose
Visva (all) Mitra (Friend)  - Benefits all.

Visvamitra embodies steadiness and spiritual focus, qualities I aspire to with the children back in school. Is powerful, nimble, light and capable around the corner?๐Ÿคž A stark contrast from the colorful, confusing, (a bit chubbier), mishmash mess (me) approaching the impending classroom comeback. Funny how we make it happen every year - la rentrรฉe scolaire : back-to-school  - but it doesn’t seem to get any more facile. 

There is also the matter of this maman’s rentrรฉe to the yoga studio after a few months intermission … but that is forthcoming and thus a prospective post. 

August 20, 2025

Twisted bow

 

Dhanurasana - Twisted Bow Pose
The real twisted bow is described below ๐ŸŽ€ 

The children are not at school. And somehow I have to get them ready for the school year. But surely they must be out of the house for this to be possible. But they are all home. And there are so many of them ๐Ÿต๐Ÿต๐Ÿต๐Ÿต… 



It is absolute chaos-insanity-frenzy pressure-cooker-crazy and then POOF they are off.

August 19, 2025

Symbiosis

 

Relationships with our children can be mutualistically symbiotic (both parties benefiting from the interaction), in which case they are heavenly. Of course, much of the time we must accept as parents that the symbiosis will feel parasitical (children rule, we drool), or commensal (they thrive, we status quo), at best.


๐ŸŒนMutualistically Symbiotic, of course ๐Ÿ˜˜ 


August 18, 2025

Preparatory School

 

Dreamasana ☁️ 

Life is not a means to an end, luckily, the contrary seems to be true. 

August 17, 2025

Kvetching


๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ™„ ๐Ÿ”ฅ 

WHAT do I even WANT ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

How do we discover our true heart’s desires? The genuine magic begins after we manifest all those ‘ought, should, need, musts…’

๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›Dog Days of Summer๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š

August 15, 2025

I speak French fries

 

Le Weekend

I did not cross the Atlantic this Summer, as I regularly do, but, nonetheless, I endeavor to channel la fille Francaise.

August 14, 2025

Anonymous

 


Shop (even for household items,) more than once a week and you may be a shopaholique. 

August 13, 2025

Course of inaction

 


Wake-up-got-nowhere-to-be-but-here is my ๐Ÿ’› preferred vibe. & what I am ⚡️ currently choosing. 

August 12, 2025

Bolognese with ๐Ÿฐ & photos

Marjaryasana - Cat pose / Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose

 “I KNOW we didn’t have dinner! Because I DON’T remember sitting down together !”  
The family sit-down dinner is steadily back in fashion as baby gets increasingly older. And the children very much rely on this ritual. 





You can find us at home cooking (and eating). Alfresco. 


August 11, 2025

Schweet


Sukhasana - Easy Pose, Sirsasana II - Tripod Headstand 

Homemaking is love - giving the gift of beauty, comfort, fun, happiness, health, hope, joy, magic, safety, security, success to those in your home. And this life-styling is modeling a concrete methodology for your kith and kin to recreate inner peace and outer beauty for themselves and others anywhere, anytime. 



Home schweet home.