- Weekly Intention: We are now one day away from Election Day. I haven’t discussed politics here very much and I don’t think I will break that trend today. I have spent an unreasonable amount of hours watching CNN over the last year. I’ve read many articles and clicked on just about every political link on my facebook home (links pointing to both directions.) I don’t want to imply that I am apathetic about this election. I have very strong feelings about the election, the candidates, the possible outcomes, etc. But what I really want to mention more than anything is that if you’re in the United States, I beg you not to take your right to vote for granted. With all that’s going on in my homeland, and around the world, it’s even more clear to me that the right to vote is a huge privilege. No matter who your candidate is, no matter your views, I hope you go and vote. Make sure your voice is heard. I am proud to live and raise my kids in a country where that’s possible. I know it’s not the case everywhere in the world. Having said all that, I know most of my week (at least the first part of it) will be overtaken by the election. Everything else I will do will have to stand in the shadow of the election. I will breathe a sigh of relief (at least I hope so!) when this is all over and I can finally stop watching CNN. This election has made me really anxious, sad, frustrated and I am really ready to move on from all this negativity.
Besides the election watching, I hope to spend my time and energy on getting some solid work done this week. I would like to check off some of the items i’ve been carrying for a while. I would like to also do some serious planning for 2017. I have my olw and my other words for 2017 so far, I think. But I’d like to figure out my project, plans, thoughts around the year. I’d like to come up with a reasonable list that I know I can successfully accomplish and still get a lot of joy from.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to vote. I will walk to my polling place with my kids. I will do my research on the initiatives. I will do my duty as a citizen. I am so grateful to get to vote.
- Two: I will choose to work hard. I want to cross off some serious todo list items.
- Three: I will choose to go back to exercising again and see if i can make a food plan of some kind.
- I am looking forward to: election day. scared. anxious. nervous. really worried. will watch every minute.
- This week’s challenges: tomorrow is a tough day. and i think tuesday will be, too. but i am hoping the rest of the week will be quiet.
- Top Goals:
- Work: Emails down to zero. Time to cross off some major todo items!
- Personal: Get my 2017 plan, journal, rest, exercise, eat good food. (same as last week, sadly) oh and VOTE.
- Family: make a holiday plan for the kids.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to everyone this week. I will experiment with being my best version.
- I will be strong and go back to regular exercise. I can do this.
- I will be generous with work. I want to get stuff done!
- I will be true to my needs but also figure out what’s good for me. I need some work in this area.
- I will be brave and have faith that things will be ok.
- This week, I want to remember: that everything will be ok. I have been feeling down and anxious and tired and overwhelmed lately. I want to remember that it’s the darker days that might be contributing to this. Or the anxiety over the election. Or even watching so much news. I would like to take time to make a plan for some fun and adventure and I also would like to remember that everything is transient. This, too, will pass.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
- Three Choices I made this week:
- One: I chose to rest and give myself grace. I was sick all week and really needed to rest. So I just gave up on fighting myself and took Monday off and took it easy the rest of the week. Which meant, of course, that a lot less got done. But alas.
- Two: I chose to support my kids this week by showing up at both their schools. I volunteered, I went to conferences, I showed up.
- Three: I chose to work late many nights this week. It was an important week for my team and we had meetings. I was sick but I showed up anyway. Having said that, I did drop a lot of things on the floor so net-net I’d consider this not the best getting-work-done week.
- I read/learned: I finished Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, am about fifty pages short on Tuesday Nights in 1980 but I think it’s likely I will abandon it. I also started and put down Razor Girl. I finished and loved How to Party with an Infant. I am now reading The Mothers and loving it so far. I’ve have a new lecture available in the Stanford Election 2016 class that I plan to watch today.
- I celebrate: having some cuddle time with Jake watching Stranger Things this week. It was lovely.
- I am grateful for: finally feeling a bit better. Last week was rough. Also grateful for the one extra hour today!
- I focused on my health by:
- well no exercise or eating well but I did try to rest a lot.
- I made art: I did both my OLW for November and all my pre-pages for the December Daily this week.
- I let go of: getting anything reasonable done and finishing all the books I have checked out from the library.
- Core Desire Check-in:
- Kind: I’ve been kind to myself this week. I needed it.
- Strong: Finally feeling stronger again.
- True: What’s true for me right now is that I need to step back and do a bit of a self-evaluation and planning for the end of 2016 and for 2017.
- Generous: I wish to be more generous with my time. I want to feel more expansive and not such a sense of scarcity. The scarcity makes me less productive, not more.
- Brave: I was brave this week and this year so far. But here’s what I want to be brave with this week: learning to love what is.
Here’s to another good week! 🙂
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
Journaling asks: What is surprising me today?
Today Journaling is a Monthly Project for November 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Comfort class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Last time I took this course, I ended up doing a year-long project on this type of journaling. You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here and the pictures are all from Pinterest here.
Journaling asks: What am i grieving today?
Today Journaling is a Monthly Project for November 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Comfort class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Last time I took this course, I ended up doing a year-long project on this type of journaling. You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here and the pictures are all from Pinterest here.
I read Bone Gap because it was picked by my Young Adult book club. I was’t sure about it when I read the blurb on Amazon.
But I was totally wrong.
This is one of the best Young Adult novels I’ve read in the last few years. I loved the characters. I loved the magical realism. I loved everything about this book. If you’re like me and are sick of all the dystopian YA I would recommend you give this one a try. It’s unusual so it might not be your cup of tea but it’s beautiful.
Btw, I listened to the audio and it was fantastic.
Journaling asks: What showed up today?
Today Journaling is a Monthly Project for November 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Comfort class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Last time I took this course, I ended up doing a year-long project on this type of journaling. You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here and the pictures are all from Pinterest here.
Halfway through October, I still had no idea for my November art. I was leaving for Sydney in a week and getting agitated that I had no ideas. As I went back to the original post I’d made at the very beginning of the year, I noticed that I had listed “today I know” as one the projects I wanted to this year and decided it was going to be my last project before December Daily.
As I sat to do them, I looked through my printouts from Soul Comfort and the “what…today” prompts resonated more with me so I decided to slightly change my course and do those instead. I really have been itching to journal lately so combining drawing/painting with journaling was a perfect call for November. If you haven’t taken Soul Comfort, I strongly recommend it. You can sign up here as part of Brave Girls University.
Here’s the first page:
Journaling asks: What can I learn today?
Today Journaling is a Monthly Project for November 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Comfort class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Last time I took this course, I ended up doing a year-long project on this type of journaling. You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here and the pictures are all from Pinterest here.
Nathaniel loves playdates. Loves. Loves. Loves.
He asks me everyday if he can have playdates. Every time with a new friend.
Unfortunately for him, I am not as much a fan of playdates as he is. So it’s tough for me to make them happen. A few weeks ago, we finally arranged a playdate for his friend Ethan and him. Three days before Ethan came, I woke up to this.
Nathaniel had arranged all of his toys and made a playing den for him and his friend. Pillows, pokemon toys, mindcraft toys, magnets, legos, on and on. He and his friend played in there for at least 2 of the 3 hour playdate.
He promised me he would clean it up when his friend left and within the hour it was gone.
This boy is the sweetest, kindest person I know. I will work harder to make more playdates happen!
Stories from 2016 is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
- Weekly Intention: We are now on week 44 of this year. How did this happen? I am both ready and not ready for the year to be over. I usually take a lot of downtime during the holidays and I really hope I can do that this year, too. I need it even more than ever. Anyhow, back to this week. This week I have a trip to work, two to David’s school, one to Nathaniel’s school, and Halloween, of course. I am not a fan of Halloween. Not a fan of scary things. I much prefer Christmas. I have a medium size of work and personal work to do, but I know it will still be hard because I am very jetlagged and my spine is really hurting (likely from travel) so I will need a lot of rest. So I think I will make my intention to get a lot of rest while taking sprints of getting work done. I think that would make me happiest this week. I’ve been thinking a bit about 2017 plans too and would like to write stuff down this week. And to put my 2016 December Daily pre pages together. Let’s see how much of that gets done.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to rest when I need it and get back to exercise.
- Two: I will choose to pace myself with books, and my personal todo list. It can all wait.
- Three: I will choose to start learning some of the statistics and metrics work I want to learn.
- I am looking forward to: David’s teacher conference this Friday.
- This week’s challenges: I think most of the challenges will be me. How tired I am. So I will try to block some sprint working time and then I will give myself grace to rest as much as possible. Here’s to hoping it works!!
- Top Goals:
- Work: Emails down to zero. One spreadsheet to make, one document to comment on and learning analytics. that’s my goal this week. Everything else is bonus.
- Personal: Get my 2017 plan, journal, rest, exercise, eat good food.
- Family: Hug kids. hug them more. be kind. be kinder.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to myself. Give myself grace to recover.
- I will be strong and ask for what I want/need.
- I will be generous with my kindness. I want to try to be as kind as possible.
- I will be true to my priorities and remember that things are less urgent than they seem.
- I will be brave and give myself what I need. I am often scared to take a break but i really need it.
- This week, I want to remember: that my life is so full and so layered and it’s exactly how I want it to be. I designed it and I love all aspects of it. Sometimes I feel like I am the victim of my life but to be honest, I chose everything in my life and I wouldn’t want to give any of it up. So I just need to check in with myself and see if I still would choose a particular thing that seems to feel overwhelming at the moment. Remember to give myself grace. Remember that I can make different choices if that’s what I’d like. And I want to remember that life is a marathon and not a sprint. I want to savor the journey. To be present for the journey. I am so grateful for my journey.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
Another month is over. Good-bye October. Thank you for all the wonderful days.
Here are all the cards:
Onward to November.
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
- Three Choices I made this week:
- One: I chose to work a lot while I was in Sydney as much as I could. And I also chose to socialize even when I was tired.
- Two: I chose to go to the beach in the middle of one of my days to ensure I didn’t spend the week there without seeing the sculptures by the sea.
- Three: I chose to take David to his first middle school dance the same night I got back from Sydney. Jetlagged, exhausted, and still there. I am so glad I was.
- I read/learned: I finished A Darker Shade of Magic, Nutshell and Creative Schools this week. I am now reading Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy and Tuesday Nights in 1980. I have 18 audiobooks checked out of three libraries at this moment and I wish I could read them all simultaneously. Or at least before they expire! I’ve also watched the three new lectures in the Stanford Election 2016 class.
- I celebrate: being back at home. I really like Sydney and am always happy to be there, but always happier at home.
- I am grateful for: a solid week of work. Jake, being so wonderful with the kids. my kids, being magical creatures. my life.
- I focused on my health by:
- oh man, did nothing this week. it was a week of just surviving it.
- I made art: no art this week. i am hoping with a new OLW, I’ll do some next week.
- I let go of: trying to balance between my two teams while in sydney. i just did the best i could.
- Core Desire Check-in:
- Kind: I’ve been kind the boys. When my plane landed on Friday, I went to N’s school for halloween parade and D’s school for his dance. It was a long, long day.
- Strong: I am not super-strong at the moment. Jetlagged and tired mostly.
- True: I was true to myself in Sydney. I went to the beach, chose smaller social outings and did whatever I thought was the right thing to do along the way.
- Generous: I’ve been generous to work this week.
- Brave: I was brave with all the social work engagements. Those are tough tough for me and then a social at David’s school Friday night.
Here’s to another good week! 🙂
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
It says: You made it through yesterday, you are making it through today, and you will make it through tomorrow. You will.
a little shimmer:
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
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