GRATITUDE: A day without rain! Took the opportunity to do a top of the parking structure walk on the way to school with the kids and admire the sky instead of the underside of our umbrellas. Also for the purposeful connection time with Jasper and Juniper this week (coffee dates while at ceramics and hip hop) at least for now it seems like it’s making other challenges with them more manageable and they are willing to collaborate and problem solve them together, and just talk to me about the little things.
FOCUS: Things for today to fill my bucket – Yoga chiropractor appt, “Self Regulation for Screen Struggles” with Stuart Shanker, library visit, contemplate garden plans continue art closet/kids library purge and see things go to the buy nothing group swiftly.
INSPIRATION: How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully on The Marginalian blog
“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903–January 14, 1977). “Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.”