There I am on August 4, 2009 when I decided to declare HERE on Dirty Footprints Studio that this was the official beginning of my Creative Juicy Life. Go take a glance at how I declare with great confidence that this would be my last year teaching at my school and that I would be using this year to define what a Creative Juicy Life looks, feels, and unfolds like for me.
Here I am now a little over three months into my Creative Juicy Life adventure. I'm sitting at my desk in my beloved Studio 307 at school. My hair's a little longer, my skin is a little less tan. I still got that strange head tilt thing going on when I take a photo....and well, I feel different. Real different.
Lots can happen in three months.
Lots can happen in three minutes--especially when you teach in a nutty elementary/middle school!
When I started out, I thought the answer was to work harder, push harder, make things happen. Get somewhere--do something--be something BIGGER, MORE CREATIVE, MORE JUICY!!! But something switched...something came to me, and I found a new direction.
That's where I'm at now.
I've stopped working harder. Stopped pushing. Stopped trying to make things happen.
I've started to watch how things naturally come to me when I relax into what is.
I've started to watch and learn from how children hug. They never do it subtle, but rather approach with arms wide open, and nestle into the softness of who you are, and stay there as long as they can--until you let go.
I've started to hug my life like a child. Stretching my arms wide open as I rise each morning. Rubbing my nose deep into the sweetness of my day. Savoring the moments until time tells me to let go.
My Creative Juicy Life is changing. It is becoming something I never anticipated it would. I'm finding things are more Creative, more Juicy when they are more simple.
Peace & Love.
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Beautiful!
Ah, the beginnings of wisdom.
It is all about Embracing Each Day, so I'm discovery-ing.
Wow, such beautiful and powerful words.... I can't wait to see what organically unfolds for you! I'm in such a similar place... there's something about being deeply present with each moment that sparks gratitude for everything that is. Hugs!
I am happy for you.
I think in the same way, and realized life can be easier when I just embrace things as they come. I try every day to enjoy little moments, and not worry too much about tomorrow.
I love it!!! I am SO going to be following you EVEN MORE in the future. I'm going through a similar shift and even started a new blog. It's so hard to relax and just let things be and see how life can just unfold so mysteriously. It sounds like you are becoming more spiritual. Do what feels right. Don't look back. Hugs!
It seems to me that pushing hard and striving for things to be different is a form of resistance (something I'm very familiar with.) Good for you for slowing down and stopping to smell the roses! It's amazing what can be accomplished when we go easier on ourselves and take time to enjoy life as it is. Right. Now.
The tilt may be the same, but the face is softer, more relaxed. It's certainly more content than the sad faces we saw before your bloggy break. I'm happy that you're happier.
This is a beautiful post, one that inspires in many ways. Blessings to you as your journey unfolds.
What a fabulous post! I am so happy for you! Isn't it amazing what wonderful things can come to us when we just slow down and open ourselves to the possibility? I'm all for going after what one wants - it's the "wants" part that messes most people up. Trusting in the future and that good things are coming, while not easy, is very rewarding!
Good luck to you! I look forward to hearing about your journey!
that is luscious
it is like being open to what is instead of striving constantly brings richness to the fore...
wonderful!
damn you are so beautiful!!!!!
look at my gorgeous little sister, WOWZA muy caliente <3
lie down in the river of life and swim WITH the current, yes i agree 100% no point in trying to fight the current to get to the shore, if we have to fight it then it is not that part of the shoreline we are supposed to be going to is it? We struggle to get to the wrong beach and we miss out on the party that is being held in our honour on a beautiful white sand beach further up the river, or maybe even where the river meets the ocean :) mmmm sounds good to me
love you
love you long time
xxme
so true. things shift, not always in the way we expect as we let go. love following your adventure, connie darlin!
xoxo
You look so peaceful in that second picture. Yours eyes - they just look like they belong to a woman who's comfortable with her life the way it is right now. Yay.
Nice:) .........
thanks for the reminder to stop trying to force the river
I decided to wander back a bit and do some catching up with you and look where I landed first! (And it looks like I have so much more catching up to do, too, but what a wonderful place to land...isn't it cool how things just happen the right way?)
So, what have you done differently in other areas of your life? With Hans? Financially? Organization-wise? Time? Am I making sense?
I realized a while back that I wasn't "living" my life, I was just existing in it. I decided to take my life back...to enjoy it again. To create and have fun and be spontaneous and truly LIVE OUT LOUD! You inspire me in this journey of mine.
Oh how I adore you!
Peace & Love,
~Barb~
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