It’s the time of year when the cycle of our planet begins again. We celebrated the new year on January 1st, and then again on the first full moon and the first new moon after the winter solstice. The Annishinabe celebrate the new year on the first new moon after the winter solstice. This signified…
Category: Divine I Am
Glenstone Museum
The Maryland Art Education Conference this year was split into a two day conference, with Friday being a field experience day at different museums around the area and Saturday being conference workshops! On Friday I attended the Glenstone Museum for my field experience. This was my first time at the museum and I was blown…
Central PA Yoga Love Festival
The first ever Central PA Yoga Love Festival was hosted at Amethyst Retreat Center in Dillsburg PA. Chelsea Balance envisioned and created an amazing yoga event for all. There were so many amazing vendors, musicians, and yoga instructors! This was the first year for this event, and I look forward to the next one! There…
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forum
The leaves are great examples of how each of us is different and on a different journey. Each leaf is unique as it grows and thrives connected to the tree, but that’s not all that makes a leaf unique. Once the leaf has completed the cycle of growth, it begins its journey back down to…
2019
This year has been so abundant. So much packed into one year. The beginning of 2019 started off with learning more about the local connections with environmental organizations on my area, experiencing my first Maryland Association of Outdoor and Environmental Education conference, and recertifying my school as a Maryland Green school! We also were awarded…
…and the cycle flows
The cycles of life are like breathing, in and out. Receiving and letting go.
Everyday is a good day…
Especially… When you notice how far left and right you can turn your healing wrist. When you finally can zip your pants half way up with your healing wrist. When you can carry your cup of coffee with your healing wrist. When you have loved ones willing to help when in need.
Day 13 – Relax
Relax he tells me, before he finished with the new cast… there are new pains and different sensations with this cast. I have use of my elbow now… but my muscles and tendons were stuck in one position for 11 days, so I’m dealing with that more so than the broken bone itself. While I’m…
Week 1 – Ambidextrous
Things that are hard to do with only one hand open cereal bags, putting toothpaste on a toothbrush, pulling up my pants, taking pictures, opening jars, driving, putting hair in ponytail shaving armpits EXPERIMENT: Things to do using your non dominant hand, just for fun putting on mascara writing brushing your teeth texting, typing, pluck…
Ambidextrous
Such a peculiar word…. From Latin ambi- ‘on both sides’ + dexter ‘right-handed’. Interesting Here is a post about what I am noticing about my time without being able to use my dominant hand. Sunday, August 11th, 2019 I fell from a ladder while painting the crease between the ceiling and wall, and I broke my radius bone and…
Wild Women
The growth in this moment is so real, so intense…. like fire… leaving you raw. Balance requires constant motion, directing energy while letting it go. Friday was the day that encompassed all emotions, and began with self-doubt and anxiety. It continued with having handle the consequences for choosing to not take the best steps in…
Earth Love Festival 2019
This years Earth Love Festival at Amethyst Retreat Center in Duncannon Pennsylvania was a beautiful demonstration of community, collaboration, and love. Nicole Sharkey is the visionary who thought of this beautiful festival 3 years ago, and has since turned it into an amazing opportunity for all, to gather and to heal. The Earth Love festival…