I loved finding this Joseph Campbell docu.

The Hero's Journey from Malcolm Kelly on Vimeo.

Girl Walk (Girl Talk/ All Day)

My good friend and neighbor Jim introduced me to Girl Talk, and all summer long I ran to "All Day"- an eclectic mashed up mix that was perfect for my newbie running cadence. However, it kind of made me dance a little with my running.... it's been so much fun to keep up with this ongoing release of Girl Walk, it's what I look like when I run/dance. Sort of. Not really at all.... Girl Walk // All Day: Chapter 3 from Girl Walk // All Day on Vimeo.

knitting, and exploring my relationship to winter

I am making an attempt to explore my relationship to winter a little further.
After having grown up in sunny sub-tropical Queensland, Australia... and now living in the Midwest of the USA, this time of year is harder on my system than I often care to admit.
I don't relish the dark and cold.
My body doesn't do cold well.

Perhaps with a project like this in my hands this winter, I could make an exploration of the weather, and wear a season... the winter of 2011/2012.



Sky Scarf from Leafcutter Designs on Vimeo.

L brings his whole self to the dance! I love a good dance party with him...

Sharing my desktop background

In an effort to create some organization on my laptop screen, I made myself a background that I can organize. I took a photo of the journal that I got in Paris, shaded it, and can collect the files that clutter my desk top on it. Plus a quote, just because my desktop images always seem to have quotes. 

I thought I would post it here to share! 

{10 Days Of Open Hearted Thanksgiving}

Today is 10 Days before Thanksgiving.

This year I am choosing to celebrate Thanksgiving in a different kind of way.

I have so much in my life that I am thankful for, and so I am choosing to celebrate the art of Giving Thanks, by passing on kindness that has been done for me.

This is an intentional act of practice: I am intending to move the ways that I am Thankful through my life and out into the world, in ways that can be experienced by others....  I feel so grateful for the many ways that I have been blessed in my life lately- kindness shown by my neighbors, gratitude for the health and well being of my father, I could go on and on...

In order to share this, I am going to make 10 acts of kindness in the 10 days before Thanksgiving. The first will be bringing coffee and a treat to the kiddo's teachers this afternoon at school pickup.

What will be next? I am looking forward to including the kids, and getting their input for some acts of kindness!

Here are the jpegs of the card that goes with the random acts of kindness. (I made some up, to kind of explain it, in case any of my kindness acts might be misinterpreted!)

 Feel free to use! I printed them out as wallet-sized photos to cut up. (One is singular, and I added one that is plural, for those working with their children. Thanks for pointing that out Tammy!) 

An interesting article

Here's an interesting article from today's New York Times.

I just wanted to have a place to book mark and share my virtual Sunday paper!