Personal Day
UmberDove
Good Morning!
Happy New Year!
How is your heart today?
(Get a load of that fruit bowl, right? Pears, pomegranates, pinenuts, hemp seeds and raw cacoa nibs! Delish! I've just embarked on a strict elimination diet to identify a food sensitivity that has gone on for WAY too long, but LOOK at what I get to eat!)
I love everything that a new year symbolizes: the passage of time, a fresh opportunity to claim your destiny, a time to reevaluate goals and set them anew. The last few days BC and I have walked miles with the pups, mulling over exactly what we want and exactly how we want to get there. We've drafted lists and plans and I had the perfect excuse to order a gorgeous daily agenda from a lovely bookmaker. It feels so hopeful!
The last few days we've been so hard at work that I've decided to take a "personal morning." Way back in another life, when BC and I both were sprinting the fast track, working double jobs, I discovered that personal days were the key to my sanity. They often fell under the ruse of food poisoning, but really you would find me strolling the streets of Santa Cruz eating a carmel apple with a sack of new-used books slung over shoulder. I would buy two, count 'em, TWO lattés and read fiction in a tiny rustic cafe. They are some of my very favorite memories of that period of life and while the 70 hour workweek has passed, the personal day lives on.
So.
That's how I'm being kind to myself today. And I'm bringing a sturdy cotton bag for my [hopeful] book cache.
What are you doing for you this week? This year? I'd love to know!
~ Umber ~
Happy New Year!
How is your heart today?
(Get a load of that fruit bowl, right? Pears, pomegranates, pinenuts, hemp seeds and raw cacoa nibs! Delish! I've just embarked on a strict elimination diet to identify a food sensitivity that has gone on for WAY too long, but LOOK at what I get to eat!)
I love everything that a new year symbolizes: the passage of time, a fresh opportunity to claim your destiny, a time to reevaluate goals and set them anew. The last few days BC and I have walked miles with the pups, mulling over exactly what we want and exactly how we want to get there. We've drafted lists and plans and I had the perfect excuse to order a gorgeous daily agenda from a lovely bookmaker. It feels so hopeful!
The last few days we've been so hard at work that I've decided to take a "personal morning." Way back in another life, when BC and I both were sprinting the fast track, working double jobs, I discovered that personal days were the key to my sanity. They often fell under the ruse of food poisoning, but really you would find me strolling the streets of Santa Cruz eating a carmel apple with a sack of new-used books slung over shoulder. I would buy two, count 'em, TWO lattés and read fiction in a tiny rustic cafe. They are some of my very favorite memories of that period of life and while the 70 hour workweek has passed, the personal day lives on.
So.
That's how I'm being kind to myself today. And I'm bringing a sturdy cotton bag for my [hopeful] book cache.
What are you doing for you this week? This year? I'd love to know!
~ Umber ~