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Child's hands sewing, with materials and small mannequin in the background

Studio Time

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So, here’s my invitation to you. Find some time to play. With whatever medium appeals to you. Maybe it’s fabric or fiber; maybe it’s clay; maybe it’s music or gardening. Have some fun, and remind yourself that it doesn’t have to be perfect.
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Rainy day from a front porch

A Little More Rain

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A nice break from quite a bit of chatter. The chatter in the news and on social media. The chatter in my own head. We all have stuff to deal with, worry about, fuss over. And the rain keeps on raining, and the sun keeps on shining, and the moon keeps on rising.
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Pink rose with foliage in the background

What Remains the Same

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All of this creates complex problems to be addressed. Power outages; drainage; food and shelter; loss of income; loss of housing. How do we allocate resources? How do we manage our individual and community responses to situations like this?
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Set of colorful hammocks

A Little Time Off

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Sometimes you gotta just practice what you preach. Every time I teach a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, there are instructions to pause in between movements. Sometimes short pauses; sometimes long pauses. Sometimes lots of pauses; sometimes few pauses.
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Wool fibers laid out on a table in front of a large window

Clearing the Table

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Every day. So far, it’s been every day for 12 years! She mentioned that she had to go deep, to look more deeply, to go beyond the obvious.
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Many patterns, brown on a white background

Connecting the Dots

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Our brains work in amazing ways. We learn through patterns, we follow patterns, we create patterns, and sometimes we disrupt patterns. One of my favorite things is the expansion that happens, the lives that improve, when we activate this kind of learning.
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Beth Beede with her hands raised, describing something.

Wool and a Beach Ball

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Pairing some wool fiber and a beach ball is an odd choice. Odd, but fun. Who would have guessed how much fun you can have indoors with a ball, some soapy water, and a pile of colorful wool?
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Blue sky along California coastline

Emptiness or Spaciousness

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Maybe it would be easier to let go, if the imagined result looked more like spaciousness than emptiness.
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Dove silhouette, with the word Peace in many languages

Remembering

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It’s also a good day to consider what we individually might do to encourage peace. What might we say and do, that could make our world a more peaceful place, where we can find better ways to live together on this earth?
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Microgreens in a square clay container

Small Delights

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With all the stuff going on in the whole world and in our own little corners of the world, it’s nice to have small delights to make us smile, slow down, breathe a little better, and enjoy.
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Pink mimosa blossoms against foliage and blue sky

Pink Flowers and Blue Sky

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Nonetheless, I made it around a sort of circuit. My reward at the end was one of my favorite trees—a mimosa. It has delicate pink flowers—and such bold color!
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Rainy back yard and reflections in a window

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

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You’d think we’d be used to the flooding here in Texas, and that we’d figure out a better way to manage these downpours. It’s a complicated thing that I can’t begin to understand.
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