Spin & Break to Eat Cake!
After a much needed, unanticipated break, i have landed in 2025!
Happy New Year!
* scroll down for a few new drawings. i am re-posting the above River Cake to Celebrate the full 365 spin of Mama Earth! & i wanted some color with today’s post!
The last stretch of 2024 was a little bit of an ornery ride…
Not so much like the buoyant river cake above. Nothing horrible & there were peachy parts too, just recently i’ve been dealing with some challenging results to past choices & some unidentified resistance in the face of that, like paddling my kayak through molasses.
Then my stubborn girl, Percy came to the rescue! She can tussle with other parts, wasting energy, when she shows up too pushy without regard for other needs. But/& with proper oversight & guidance, she does help me get hard projects done.
So i did stay with some important & challenging tasks that had me ignore this blog. i’ve let it laps 1 week, a few times since starting it but i think 2 is new. How dare you! 😉
Thanks for your patience!
i know some of you are wondering about Living The Magic Yes, i’ll be restarting it. More on that below.
i wish i could remember in the middle of a bit of resistance that it can be just these scrappy experiences that can bring especially fruitful learning and clarity as one comes out the other side. i guess i do recognize that but its still can be pretty “uhck!” in the middle of the resistance.
& its not that i wasn’t clear about where i was headed in 2024 but it just got more focused based on seeing where i lost energy due to gaps & trying to do too much. That insidious “not enough” story many of us can fall prey too in some form or another.
Oh yeah, i did that… now take your head out of the lion’s jaw… learn from it & no beating yourself up about it…
So i’ve had a few months of experiences that have helped me refine what i’ll be up to in 2025. Not easy but clarifying! i am grateful for that.
Reviewing my bumps and bravos in the exercise i mentioned in the last post helped.
A little more of an update for those that new and are wondering about my having taken on some new part time work in the fall. i was excited and hopeful about the nature of the work & the stability it might have brought but it did not turn out to be workable given the other contexts i’m fielding right now. After some soul searching, i let it go.
Fortunately, it has led to other fruitful insights as well as wonderful possibilities, i’ll share about once the details are worked out.
About Living the Magic, i have a few tech issues and admin tasks to “clear” up! Then i’ll follow up with some changes i’ll be making, and a new start date. Yes, this winter!
Also, i am going to honor my need to take a little more of a break rather than the unintended break i took arising from resistance. i need to do some space clearing, part of what came out of the One Word exercise that i posted & updated on my last blog post 12/22/24.
& here’s another way to alter the exercise…
i completed in a condensed time frame. i had written out the 13 things on separate pieces of paper and did the whole 12 nights in one sitting in the morning no less! Not in a rush, but it suited the time available. The process was fun and relaxing & the meditation brought fresh inspiration & new ideas and a sense of relief!
May 2025 be a fruitful & fun run around the Sun! Cheers & Thank you for being here!
