New Beginning

 

Now that summer break is over, my teacher friends are going back to school and the school parking lot across the street is full, retirement is starting to feel real. This whole summer I just felt like I was on summer break. I have been enjoying doing a lot of mindfulness art workshops and journaling everyday. It has helped my creativity to slowly draw patterns repeatedly and not have this perfectionism feeling. It does not need to perfect. Nothing is perfect. I have a lot more free time than I have had past summers working everyday at the yoga studio. I have inquired about teaching more yoga classes but nothing has opened. It has created a feeling of needing to slow down and a time to really reflect and write. 

I have started harvesting my lavender to create teas, sachets and soaps. Picking the dried lavender off the stems is very time consuming and has turned into Friday morning meditation for me. My new life is still up in the air and I am working on being comfortable with the unkowns. It is a practice. A practice worth working on. For now I continue to work on my first book and stay open to all possibilities.