What's in the gallery?
We dissolve stuck and rewrite patterns. We apply radical playfulness to life (when we feel like it!), embarking on internal adventures (credo of Safety First). We have a fake band called Solved By Cake. We build invisible sanctuaries, invent words and worlds, breathe awe and wonder.
We are not impressed by monsters. Except when we are. We explore the connections between internal territories and surrounding environment to learn what marvelously supportive delicious space feels like, and how to take exquisite care of ourselves. We transform things.* We glow wild.**
* For example: Desire, fear, worry, pain-and-trauma, boundaries, that problematic word which rhymes with flaweductivity.
** Fair warning: Self-fluency has been known to lead to extremely subversive behavior, including treasuring yourself unconditionally, unapologetically taking up space, experiencing outrageously improbable levels of self-acceptance, and general rejoicing in aliveness.
What's in the gallery?
We dissolve stuck and rewrite patterns. We apply radical playfulness to life (when we feel like it!), embarking on internal adventures (credo of Safety First). We have a fake band called Solved By Cake. We build invisible sanctuaries, invent words and worlds, breathe awe and wonder.
We are not impressed by monsters. Except when we are. We explore the connections between internal territories and surrounding environment to learn what marvelously supportive delicious space feels like, and how to take exquisite care of ourselves. We transform things.* We glow wild.**
* For example: Desire, fear, worry, pain-and-trauma, boundaries, that problematic word which rhymes with flaweductivity.
** Fair warning: Self-fluency has been known to lead to extremely subversive behavior, including treasuring yourself unconditionally, unapologetically taking up space, experiencing outrageously improbable levels of self-acceptance, and general rejoicing in aliveness.
How I define that mysterious thing that is a PROJECT.
Okay. I have come to the following realization:
While we have been talking quite a bit about projects, I have not actually explained what I mean by “project”.
Projects? Adventure, missions, episodes, whatever your projectizing metaphor happens to be.
So let’s talk about what I’m trying to say when I’m talking about projects.
Because this is important.
And also because I’m pretty sure the definition that I’m working with is much broader than people suspect.
Thank you, commenter mice and people who come to Rally (Rally!) and members of my Kitchen Table program for helping me understand that I need to define my terms!
Projects are about exploration and discovery.
Any time you ask a question:
“What can I do to make this phone call less painful or stressful?”
That’s a project.
Any time you express a thought that is a desire or a gwish:
“I’d like to learn more about my relationship with my body, and what would need to happen for me to be able to treat myself with more kindness.”
That’s a project.
Any time you wonder about some aspect of how you are in the world:
“I wonder what would happen if I had designated time in my week for something creative and messy…”
That’s a project.
There are no RULES about projects.
Except discovering what your internal rules are.
Or what external rules you have internalized. cough, GTD.
There are lots of systems and methodologies out there for working on projects. They all work — for the person who came up with them. And maybe for some other people.
But not for everyone. Because of the People Vary principle.
The important thing about projects is NOT the rules that various expert-ey biggified people have invented. (Like: “If it doesn’t have a due date, it’s not a project” or “You should never work on more than X things” or whatever.)
The important thing about projects is that you get to learn what works for you and what doesn’t, in any given situation.
Of course, if a particular rule happens to help you and it feels supportive and it’s nonviolent, go for it! Use it and enjoy. Just pay attention to the fact that you are consciously choosing to take it on.
And if a particular rule stresses you out and does not help you feel supported and cared for, give yourself permission to drop it.
It’s your kingdom. Do things in a way that works for you. And maybe take some notes about that for the Book of You.
Projects are never about the thing. They’re about your relationship with the thing.
Maybe you want to sleep better. That’s a project.
And everything you do to explore and learn what will help you get more sleep or higher quality sleep or happier sleep is a part of that project.
But the real project is not about the sleep itself.
The real project is your relationship with sleep, your relationship with discovering what you need, your relationship with yourself.
If you’ve been on Rally (Rally!), you’ve already experienced this.
Because part of the magic of Rally is really that what you do there is so much more than making giant progress on your projects.
What happens is this: you learn how to approach projects:
How to make the process of interacting with them fun, adventurous, playful, creative.
How to work on your stuff while working on the thing you want, while also resting in a hammock and eating pretzel sticks.
How to use fractal flowers and the video game and all sorts of other things to your advantage. And then you can do that with any project.
Examples of this broader definition of “project”.
Here are some of the more traditional projects people have worked on and played with at Rallies.
- Starting something (a book proposal, grant proposal, ebook, product, outline, table of contents, marketing plan, business plan, website plan, art installation, a business or a non profit organization or a new career).
- Finishing something (see above).
But here are some other equally legitimate projects people have worked on and played with at Rallies.
- What am I like when I’m on vacation?
- What would it be like to not be stressed out about time all the time?
- What do I want to do if/when I grow up and is that even the right question?
- What do I know about my relationship with money?
- What am I going to do with this grief and pain about X?
- How can I invent rituals and/or games to make my straight job more bearable and more supportive of my destuckification practice?
- What needs to happen for my relationship to work?
- How would I go about building an underground lair?
See what I mean?
And many, many people come to Rally having no idea what their project is or if they even have one. It always works, either way.
Projects: not just for work.
They aren’t about a job or a business, though they can be.
They aren’t about getting a certain thing done by a certain date, though they can be.
They aren’t about making something to sell, though they can be.
Projects are about you getting to know how you function. They’re about a certain aspect or piece of the ongoing process of you working on your stuff.
They’re about playing and finding out. They exist to help you. And they want to tell you things. And they want to be put to bed at night, but that’s another story for another day.
Play with me. And with projects. And comment zen for today.
This is, of course, my personal definition of projects. Which you do not have to use unless you happen to want to!
If you would like to invent fun projects with me, that is welcome.
I am also setting up an impromptu daycare center here in the comments section in case you would like to deposit some project-monsters and old rules about how things supposedly have to be.
Leave them in a comment and we’ll be happy to entertain them for you while you sneak off to proxy something or play with something.
As always, we all have our stuff. We make room for other people to have their stuff. And as part of that, we don’t tell each other what to do, how to feel or how to be.
Lots of love!
From my journal.
Today I’m letting you peek at my journal.
Here’s some of what I scribbled yesterday morning.
Noticing.
What am I noticing? What am I feeling this morning?
I am feeling very discouraged this morning. Discouraged and bleak.
And I know from experience (thank you, Book of Me) that discouraged and bleak are signs.
More specifically, they’re signs of the existence of:
a) monsters
b) shoulds and other unquestioned internal rules
c) conflicting desires.
So I am going to pause (paws!) and investigate that, even though Discouraged Me is saying What’s The Point.
But wait — aha! — I already know that What’s The Point is always trying to keep me from discovering something important. So there’s something important here. Probably. Maybe.
What’s the question?
I’m feeling stressed out about time, so let’s just find out what I *would* do with this day if it were all mine.
Weird. I mean, interesting. I wonder why I phrased the question like that. Today is all mine. In a certain sense, at least.
So what’s the information and/or clews in that question?
Maybe that I’m feeling frustrated and resentful about time, and the various demands on it that I perceive to be interfering with… not sure yet with what.
Maybe this is about themes of permission and sovereignty. I don’t know.
Anyway, what am I asking? What I really meant was this:
What might I be doing right now if I didn’t have this long and looming List of Things?
Who wants to speak first?
All of a sudden everyone wanted to talk at once.
I am calling for order. Who’s going to speak first?
Teacher me speaks up.
Teacher Me:
“Listen. We’re teaching the Shiva Nata Snack Preview class at the Playground tonight. There are 25 people coming and another 10 on the waiting list. This is important. It needs your undivided attention. You need to ready yourself and the space:
“That means meditating, yoga, space clearing, the entry ritual, your Hello Day rituals, the ritual of releasing expectations and projections, and WHO KNOWS maybe even decide what you want to teach?
“This is what you need to give your day to.”
And then businesswoman CEO me.
Practical businesswoman CEO business savant me:
“Are you crazy? Today is Plum Duff!*
“Plum Duff! It started yesterday, it ends Thursday morning and you haven’t even announced it or done the thirty things that need doing to spread the word.
“If you don’t do this, Plum Duff might not do what it needs to. And if it doesn’t, all your weeks of prep time are down the drain AND you won’t do it again because you won’t be motivated because all you will remember is how much work it was.
“Your class will run itself. You’ve been teaching Shiva Nata classes for like, seven years. You can run an amazing class without having to do all those things to get ready for it. Your business NEEDS you right now.”
* password = extraraisins
Monsters speak up.
The monsters from the grumblethrum collective:
“You have to do *all* of it! ALL of it!
“And get your hair done. Or at least do something with it. You look ridiculous!
“And call Amy. And bring the snacks to the Playground. And go to your dance class. And do some laundry. And finish that other thing. If it doesn’t ALL get done, the day is wasted! Forever!”
So. Where do we go from here?
Obviously, both yoga teacher me and chief eccentricity officer me have very valid points. And the monsters are probably right about my hair, even if we can put off the rest of it.
And yet it still comes down to this:
Today is one day.
And I want to live it lovingly, consciously and intentionally, which won’t happen if I try to smoosh everything in.
Knowing that, what are our options? Let’s ask Slightly Future Me. She’s already lived through today, so maybe she has some ideas about what to do.
Resolving is a funny word, it turns out.
Me: Hey, slightly future me. Can you tell me how I resolved this?
She: It’s not really about resolving it.
Me: What do you mean?
She: I mean, that’s the wrong question, sweetpea.
Me: Aargh. What’s the right question?
Never mind, if you wanted to tell me you would have told me.
Okay. Let me ask it like this. Can you tell me what will help me come into a different relationship with today?
She: That’s a lovely question. Okay. Let’s take this back to essence.
Essence?
Me: Huh? Oh, right. I can do that. Let’s see.
The essence of the Shiva Nata class is: sovereignty, delight, play, grounding, safety, experimentation, freedom, flow, inspiration, focus and support.
And the essence of the Plum Duff: Play, delight, support, inspiration…
Oh. I get i! They are not the same thing, but they share all the same qualities. They’re friends! They can help each other.
So I need to find those qualities. And do things that reflect those qualities. Basically I need to make today about those things.
And as long as I make sure I give myself enough space and time around my decisions, I can’t decide wrong.
She: Exactly!
And that’s what I did.
A couple of Plum Duff things. A couple of teaching preparedness things.
But mostly a lot of messing around with things to help me fill up on play and experimentation and support, and then seeing what needed to be done when I was in that sort of zone.
And of course I did some shivanautical flailing and ate some bunny crackers, and a lot of writing.
It was okay. When I look at my spangly revue, it’s clear that there are definitely a number of things I will probably try differently the next time I’m in a similar situation.
But the main thing is that I stopped feeling discouraged and bleak, which was kind of the point. So it was pretty good, all in all.
Play with me. And comment zen for today.
This is my journal. So it’s pretty, um, personal. And vulnerable to put it here, of course.
The only way I can share things like this is in an environment of safety, support and belonging, which is what we are committed to here.
So: we don’t analyze each other, tell each other how to feel or give unsolicited advice.
What is welcome: Sparklepoints! We can give them to ourselves. Or each other. Also: your own scribblings with slightly future you or notes for your Book of You about time and other things.
And my monsters would also like potato chips, so if you want to leave any here, that would be very nice of you.
Love to the commenter mice, the Beloved Lurkers and everyone who reads.
p.s. The Plum Duff days end tomorrow. Password = extraraisins
Proxy.
Sometimes you really, really, really want to make some progress on a project.
But then you don’t.
And sometimes this state of Whoa This Is Really Not Happening is related to the fact that the some part of the project itself is kind of scaring you. Like maybe its existence, for example.
(Tiny little popsicle stick reminder here that avoidance is normal! And it always makes sense even when it doesn’t.)
Anyway, this is where proxying comes in.
Proxying!
Proxying is the sneakiest way of working on a project that I know of.
It is sneakier even than the OOD and sneakier than metaphor mousing.
It is outrageously sneaky.
Because you’re basically pretending to work on something else.
Something else that doesn’t scare you even slightly.
But that something else is a proxy. It’s a Secret Stand-In for the thing you really do want to make progress on.
Let’s say you want to write a novel.
What?! What?!
Instant monster freakouts ensue. Total paralysis! Devastating attacks of WDYTYA.*
* Who Do You Think You Are: one of the monsters we negotiate with in the Monster Coloring Book.
So you pretend that you don’t want to write a novel.
And instead you’re just going to ___________________ instead.
Lalala! I’m not writing a novel. Just kidding, monsters! I’m learning how to play chess. See?
And then you problem-solve for learning how to play chess. Assuming that learning how to play chess doesn’t scare you. (If it does, you’re going to need another proxy.)
But either way: you’re actually problem-solving for your secret project.
Like this:
- Hmmm, what steps might need to happen in order for me to learn how to PLAY CHESS?
- Who are my allies and resources going to be when I am learning to PLAY CHESS?
- I wonder what challenges I might run into once I start PLAYING CHESS.
- How can I move around my schedule to create pockets of time for learning to PLAY CHESS.
- How will I know when I’m ready to PLAY CHESS with other people and let them watch while I’m playing?
- How will I make sure that I feel safe, supported, sovereign and all the other things I want to feel while learning about CHESS?
(You don’t have to shout your proxy, but I like to say mine extra-loud for the benefit of the monsters…)
I did this at the last Rally.
Actually, I proxy almost all of my projects at Rally (Rally!).
But I was taking some notes about the giant project of producing a dvd, which is the latest thing completely terrifying me right now.
I was feeling so intimidated. I couldn’t even say it without having a coughing fit, which is a sure sign that a proxy is in order.
And my monsters were laughing so hard at the idea of me doing this that they were choking a little too.
So I proxied it.
Lalala! I’m not making a dvd! I’m just compiling some business advice to give my friend for her food cart venture…
And then I came up with a list of tips I could give her for setting up her FOOD CART (see? see?).
Things she’d want to keep in mind. Possible first steps. Stuff to look out for.
It was pretty obvious how most of them translated to the real project, but it was all in secret code. Take that!
If you’re not sure when to use a proxy…
Let’s see.
When you start to think about a project and:
- you can’t say it out loud
- you break out in hives
- you hit a wall
- you suddenly want to go to sleep
- you urgently have to look up that one Hall and Oates song right this minute
- ohmygod if you don’t get to eat a popsicle and then clean under the fridge, the whole world is going to fall apart….
Well, in that case you probably want a proxy.
Lalala! I’m not launching a website! I’m studying octopi and their mating habits! No worries. Nothing to see here.
Why proxying is so magical. And sneaky. Mostly sneaky.
Your monsters and sad, scared selves and internal programming all want to keep you safe.
It’s a full-time job, and it’s a lot of work. They’re pretty exhausted. They want a break from scaring you almost as much as you want a break from being stressed out, but they can’t stop because you keep considering these projects of Doom.
But when you choose something for your proxy that doesn’t threaten to bring your shining radiance into the world…
Lalala! I’m not creating a product! I’m just documenting stuff about gardening.
Yawn. Snore. Your monsters are all asleep.
They’re so bored. There’s nothing to do!
They could try to bug you with “why are you wasting your time on this?!” but usually they’re just relieved you’ve backed off that Giant Scary Project of Doom you were so rashly and recklessly considering.
They poke their heads out and find you aren’t doing anything hazardous. Phew. Now they can take a break.
Lalala! I’m not planning a vacation! Me? I’m just going to write some notes about the history of California.
Tips for proxying!
Obviously, we are invoking the People Vary rule, so you may have to experiment and find out what works for you.
Often it helps if the proxy project is something you do all the time and is not-stressful for you.
Or you might try having a proxy project that’s completely preposterous so the proxying itself can turn into a goofball creative writing practice
You might always use the same proxy. Or you might have a box of them. Foxy hydroxy proxies.
There is no way to proxy wrong (that’s for your “You’re probably doing it wrong!” monster), but there is a lot of room for experimentation and trying stuff.
The main thing is that this is a form of playing. So we play.
Play with me? And comment zen for today.
This is definitely an advanced practice — it can take some time to get used to.
As always: we all have our stuff. We’re all working on our stuff. We make space for everyone else to have their stuff, and we take responsibility for our experience here.
We do this through agreeing to not give each other unsolicited advice, and by paying attention to what we need.
If you want to play in the comments with this theme of proxying, that would be lovely.
We can brainstorm Silly Proxies, ask clarifying questions, come up with examples or start proxying. Whatever you like.
Love to the commenter mice, the Beloved Lurkers and everyone who reads.
p.s. It’s Plum Duff days! Through Thursday morning.
Plum Duff! A special occasion and the thing sailors looked forward to most at sea.
(This one time? A ship-wide riot because the cook didn’t add molasses.)
Anyway. It’s officially Plum Duff time from now until Thursday morning or as supplies last (password = extraraisins).
Very Personal Ads #107: Rambling incoherent happy gushing?
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very.
Each week I write these VPAs to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted.
I always get useful information about my relationship with various aspects of the ask. Join in if you like!
Thing 1: fun, ease and play for Toozday’s live Shiva Nata class
Here’s what I want:
Remember last week when I said I was doing a Snack Preview Shiva Nata class at the Playground? It actually sold out over the weekend, which was pretty neat.
And now it’s happening. Toozday! We have twenty five people coming to the Playground to flail around madly.
So I want it to be fun, playful, hilarious and delight-filled. Which of course it will be.
There are three spots left for the August series, if you’re into that.
Ways this could work:
Twenty five people is really packing it in, so maybe the First Mate and I can move some things around?
I can talk things over with slightly future me.
And of course I can do Shiva Nata on it.
My commitment.
To have fun with this.
Thing 2: Plum Duff! Plum Duff! A happy brunching.
Here’s what I want:
Tomorrow is the official brunching of my upcoming Plum Duff days (password = extraraisins).
I want it to be sparkly and full of glee, with lots of happy appreciation.
And I want it to be a good time, so that this can become a Fluent Self tradition that happens a couple times a year.
Ways this could work:
Well, I whisper-brunched this on Friday and the Gwish Kits — password: elevate — are all gone except for the last one.
So that part has already worked. Although really now I’m worrying that there isn’t enough plum in the plum duff and maybe I need to substitute something else for the Gwish Kit?
Like butt-monsters? Or crownpouncers? I don’t know.
Anyway, I have used the OOD to figure out what the next steps are, so now I just have to remember to actually do them.
My commitment.
To follow the steps.
To stay connected to the essence of plumduffery — somersaulting EXCITEMENT and gleeful ANTICIPATION.
To treat the whole thing as a giant, fascinating experiment and see what happens.
To take notes and do a spangly Revue that is also a review.
Thing 3: rambling incoherent happy gushing quotes!
Here’s what I want:
Some of you guys have my Monster Coloring Book & Manual, right?
I am re-doing the HAT page — stands for Havi’s Announcing a Thing — because we’ll be raising the prices from pre-sale to full cost at the end of the Plum Duff days.
And I need some TINY STORIES or WORDS OF APPRECIATION to put there.
The monster coloring book is my 2nd favorite thing I’ve made after Emergency Calm The Hell Down, and I want people to know how happy-making and helpful it is.
Ways this could work:
I’m going to put this here. And I’m going to ask you:
If you have it and love it, would you be up for answering *any* of the following?
- Anything that surprised you about the monster manual / coloring book?
- Your favorite part?
- A neat thing that happened (like your kid using it or you using it on your mother-in-law or something?)
- Sneakiest result?
- Something useful you learned/noticed/perceived/experienced as a result of having it?
- Does it save you time even though it takes time?
And is it cool to quote you? Do you want to be linked to something?
My commitment.
To feel and express the rush of love and gratitude I feel towards everyone who uses my work and who plays with this unlikely and counter-intuitive approach!
To happily link to you (unless of course you’d rather be anonymous).
And to spread sparklepoints through the universe!
Thing 4: progress on writing projects
Here’s what I want:
To write the Proxy post, the Shiva Nata post about pricing, and to take notes for the new version of the Rally HAT.
Ways this could work:
I could use the massive epiphanies from the Shiva Nata class to whoosh me through it.
I could put aside Wednesday for writing, since I don’t have client sessions that day.
And of course using the Deguiltified Chicken Board at my Kitchen Table program is always the best way for me to get writing done.
My commitment.
To find out what happens when I play with this.
Thing 5: prep for this upcoming non-vacation-thing.
Here’s what I want:
I have this weird week coming up (not this week but next week) and everything is going to be Different and Upside Down, for various reasons.
It’s not vacation and it’s not really time off, but because everything is going to be topsy-turvy, I kind of want to take advantage of the specialness and …. well, make it special, I guess.
Hmmm. Now that I’m writing this out, I think what I really want is to be present, calm and grounded. And not spend all my time getting sucked into work and being online.
Okay. Interesting.
Ways this could work:
With a little help from my friends…
I’m thinking happy hour with Dana.
And taking some extra dance classes.
My commitment.
I’m going to invent some rituals, and talk the whole thing over with Cairene.
And I’m setting the intention here. Might need to do some more writing.
Oh! Of course! I can make this my next OOD. Right. Got it!
Progress report on past Very Personal Ads.
Just to update you on what’s happened since last time.
I wanted the further brunching of the Shiva Nata destuckification series, and that happened beautifully. To the point that I didn’t even have to do the things on my list to promote it because it sold out before I got around to it. Yay.
Then i wanted to make progress on the Plum Duff project so it would be ready by tomorrow. And — amazingly, unbelievably, impossibly — it was all ready by Friday morning.
I also wanted to consolidate a bunch of stuff that happened at Rally (Rally!), and that did not happen at all. Though on second thought, it kind of did but only in one very specific way. Interesting.
And I put out my secret gwish about the slackline, and I’ve been feeling excited about that. So I definitely will be getting a slackline, and will report back.
Comment zen. Here’s what I’d love today.
Things that are welcome! Your own personal ads, small or large. Updates on past ones if you like.
Leave your gwishes! Throw things in the pot!
Things we try to keep away from: the word “manifest”, telling people how they should be asking for things, unsolicited advice.
xox
Friday Chicken #155: not a Simpsons reference
In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of ritual and self-reflection.
And you get to join in if you feel like it.
Feeling very disoriented! Yesterday I was astonished to learn that it was Thursday, when it couldn’t possibly be.
Today I’m just kind of generally confused about everything. But here we are! I’m chickening, so it must be Friday, right? Or thereabouts.
The hard stuff
The giant gaping hole where the bathroom sink used to be.
And then the time, inconvenience and general /hassle until said hole was taken care of.
Ah, Hoppy House.
Ow.
Many bruises.
Mostly from tripping over things, sometimes literally and occasionally not.
Everything hurts!
Got a cold.
In July. It’s stupid.
Recovery sucks, just in general. I don’t know why I forgot that.
I need more downtime after last week’s Rally.
Too much working, not enough playing.
Timing. And guessing wrong.
I was working on an aspect of a project that ended up taking about five times longer than I’d estimated.
This totally threw me way off track. Not just with the project, but in all sorts of ways.
Wanting.
It is a known thing that longing for something you can’t have is a colossal waste of time.
But somehow the knowing of that doesn’t seem to be all that effective in terms of being able to stop wanting the un-wantable.
The good stuff
Oh! This is so great!
So last Friday (on the chicken!), I told you about the Shiva Nata Snack Preview class that I’d just set up.
By Monday it had SOLD OUT and people were still wanting to get in — we now have a ridiculously long waiting list.
There are still a couple spots for the August series but those should be gone soon too.
This was really exciting, especially seeing how exuberant people are feeling about this class. Yay. And yay for more shivanauts hanging out at the Playground.
Getting so much done. So much!
After a unlikely and complicated slump (tiny pockets of slump mixed with long periods of process-process-sleep-on-it, which are not slump-ey at all), I had a big run of outrageous, unstoppable DOING.
Specifically PLUM DUFF!
I was pretty sure we wouldn’t be able to get it ready in time, since it has to brunch on Monday morning.
But guess what?! We did. Incredible.
And I will even whisper-link to it (password = extraraisins) even though it’s not supposed to be live yet.
Credit for getting this done goes to the OOD and Cairene and last week’s Rally (Rally!) and all of the crazed shivanauttery we did there.
It was drizzly this week.
And I liked it.
It kind of reminded me of Berlin, which can also get chilly-wet in the middle of summer.
I was happy when the sun came back too, of course.
And happy for the things the sun is bringing (amazing blueberries and tomatoes in the Hoppy House garden, raspberries from Dana’s garden).
But the drizzly was lovely.
The Shiva Nata iPhone app finally approved!
Still not in the shop.
But we got the approval. After months and months of run-around and absurd tribulations.
So close!
Excitement.
Yoga again.
Well, I’m always doing yoga and living yoga, but when it comes to the physical practice, usually I’m practicing old Turkish lady yoga or teaching it.
This week I took some classes out in the world again and enjoyed.
Internal relationships.
At my Kitchen Table program we’ve started the summer quarter, which is on the theme of relationships.
And I taught a class on internal relationships.
The KT mice are so wise and creative, and have become so knowledgeable and well-versed in what I teach.
So we’re able to run classes at a super high level now. I was really impressed by the smart, thoughtful questions and the different situations in which people were able to apply what we talk about.
Very reassuring.
Bridge walk! And then Sunday parkways!.
I’ll be walking all weekend.
First at the Bridge Walk.
And then at Sunday Parkways.
Who’s coming with me? If a bunch of us do it, I’ll even bring the Schmoppet!
Reconnecting with an old friend.
And laughing laughing laughing.
My new favorite website.
It’s the make everything okay website that… wait for it… makes everything okay.
Thank you to the Frolicsome Bar (our facebook page) for sharing it with me.
And also I am loving loving loving this (thank you, Liz!).
And … playing live at the meme beach house it’s the Fake Band of the Week!
My brother and I have this thing where we come up with ridiculous band names and then say in this really pretentious, knowing tone, “Oh, well, you know, it’s just one guy.”
This week’s band:
Dramatic Swiss Marmot
I even have a video clip. And it’s the best video clip ever.
Catch them at the Meme Beach House all week. Except that it’s really just one guy.
Tiny little pre-annoucement? Plum Duff! Plum Duff!
Officially I’m not supposed to announce this online until Monday morning when the actual brunching happens but the fact that it is almost-here makes it too exciting to not tell you about.
Especially since it’s up and ready now* so you can sneak in if you like…
* Password = extraraisins
I would love some cheering and sparklepoints and general joyousness for this!
That’s it for me …
And of course you can join in my Friday ritual right here in the comments if you feel like it.
Yes? Anything hard and/or good happen in your week?
And, as always, have a glorrrrrrrrrrrrious day, a restful weekend and a happy week to come. Shabbat shalom.
p.s. It’s okay if it’s not Friday anymore. There’s complete chicken amnesty — you can join in whenever (or not) and it’s no big deal.