Posts by kitzellg
Wisdom
Sunday mornings at Atlas Purveyors are greeted with a sweet calm that in turn make it my favorite mornings of the week. People move slower. Smiles are bigger and offered more earnestly. This morning, as the sun rose over the foothills there was a gentle breeze that I felt against my face, and for a moment I remembered how lucky I really am. For all the heartache, all the family troubles, all the...
Read Morewounds.
After running into a friend on my way to the bookstore, I began to think. Are we all clinging, as adults, to past relationships? “When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think that we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us. We are so...
Read Morethings.
i was helping a friend move some of his things when it really made me stop and think how weighed down we are by these pieces, collections of memories that we carry around with us for so long. I have recently been reflecting on my things.. what am i carrying around that i don’t need? after reading a blog post by kendall ruth at the ink he quotes frederick buechner “it was the...
Read Moremy mantra for today
_______________________________________________ Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. —ralph waldo emerson.
Read More40 day yoga challenge
so, after failing with misery at even making it half way through, i began to think. what is “yoga” success? is it going forty day in a row, not being present? how many times have i dragged myself there to find myself thinking about the laundry list of chores and errands during the postures? so instead, i choose to practice when i can, and make it worth it. if that means it takes me...
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