What are you setting your intentions toward in this new year? How will you make space for the goals you want to achieve? Keep moving! Keep coming back to your workbench, putting fingers to keys or brush to canvas. I can't wait to celebrate your accomplishments with you.
Read MoreFear, failure, and reorganizing expectations for optimal self-love
When I agreed to take the Mermaid Challenge, I didn't think I was going to get a lesson in fear, failure, and radical self-love. But that's how I roll, I guess, living life on the edge.
Read MoreSummer Solstice
Image found on the webs... no photo credit
It's the longest day of the year
Read MoreUnmothers Day
Don't send a card if you don't really want to. Don't force yourself to fit a mold that wasn't made for you. Don't let others make you feel lesser for something you may have no control over. You are valuable. You are loved
Read MoreA time for dreamers
What do we do when we hear others' dreams coming true and feel like our own are far away? We pick ourselves up and head down the path toward our dreams again.
Read MoreChanges coming!
Tag in his new yard
I haven't posted anything about this yet because house buying can be so fraught and unreliable, but we closed on a house yesterday! I had all these plans of taking pictures of Noah and me in front of it to share... and maybe we still will... but it was super rainy today (see "sad collie in wet yard" photo above). Also, there's no electricity at the property for a few more days so with clouds it was just too dark for photoing.
In a couple of weeks we'll be moving into our new little home and preparing for the long haul of renovation/repair work that come with homeownership. We're excited for it for now. We'll see how we feel as time wears on.
It'll be a new experience, a new city (even if it is just 20 miles from our old place). I've been working on expanding myself for a while and it feels like a new city will help me to do that. To reach further and more purposefully for friends. To stand more firmly on my own.
For Noah and me both, the large yard is a huge draw (and for Tag). We have horticultural dreams we would like to realize and artistic ones as well, and so though the space is small inside, outside there's room to stretch and grow and fill and be messy and noisy in.
Stay tuned for updates on house and garden adventures!
In other news, I'm on the last round of substantial revisions for Chasing the Wind. The end is in sight! I will keep you all posted on the pub date as soon as I have it available!
love and light. happy holiday season.
Time for a cover reveal?
Raven in Death Valley. Photo credit me (Elisabeth Kauffman) 2015
I've been working toward this for a while now, but the milestones still catch me by surprise. Just goes to show that you can have the journey all planned out, know every step, and still be surprised by what you discover along the way.
Read MoreBe an ally, don't stay silent
Image from International Solidarity Day
Not sure what to say in the face of the violence and hatred you hear about, read about, and watch unfold in the news? That's no excuse to keep silent. Here are some ways you can start conversations, move past your hangups, and show your support for change, peace, freedom, equality, and justice for everyone.
Read MoreYou've got to Fight for Your Write
You can't wait for your dreams. You have to chase them down and drag them into reality.
Read MoreAn interlude: Bay to Breakers
Pre-race tutu selfie
I have things I want to talk to you about soon, but right now here's a fun look at what I was up to this weekend, and what I have learned from running recently.
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