Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Me talkin to myself

  • Tuned by the music

    Day 28 of 52 Nia dance I’ve been thinking the last several weeks that my various Nia trainers have instinctively chosen a routine that was (somehow miraculously) meant to meet my specific needs on any given day. Today, while dancing Deep Dive with Kellie Chambers, I realized instead that I am embodying the RAW guidance:…

  • Whoa, kiddo!

    Day 27 of 52 Nia dance I just never know which me will show up for dance. Today, dancing at our local YMCA with Kellie Chambers, my six-year-old self ran the show. What a party! There was leaping, skipping, laughing, off the beat, on the beat. I barely kept her from bumping into other dancers.…

  • Pressed flowers

    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,…