Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • The practice of preserving plants by pressing them goes back hundreds of years. I began playing with pressing this spring and am now making cards with the results, which come from our garden. It’s a sweet little hobby. Learning that American poet Emily Dickinson also preserved plants this way and retained them in an herbarium,…

  • Day 26 of 52 Nia challenge I promised myself when I started this effort that even dancing for five minutes would be a success. Here on day 26, I gave myself permission to just do Nia’s five stages, which is a lovely floor exercise. Supported by the floor, not fighting gravity at the start, I…

  • Day 25 of 52 Nia dance A profound exercise I experienced during Nia white belt training last spring involved dancing with one other person and taking turns mirroring each others steps. We didn’t speak, we just looked at each other and either led or followed. I don’t think this exercise lasted for more than five…