How did this post never get posted? It's been sitting as a draft since June 2010!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Spring Break 2010
Friday: Crashed after the longest 4 day week I've ever had. Holy Holy Week Batman!
Saturday: Brunch with Stephanie, Josh, and Paul, friends of Grant's from high school. A rare experience of high school memories. A brief walk through the farmer's market. We now have friends to visit in Santa Barbara - a perfect starting point for an excursion to the Channel Islands. (S&J are you ready for us in June?) Then I worked on the perfect jewelry supplies order - every thing left that I need to start soldering. However, the most important part, the solder, is backordered. Last, I made a to-do list.
Sunday: Jesus Rose from the Dead. This seems to be an annual occurrence on my Spring Break. Secular school district still follows the Christian calendar. Much celebration at FCCO, followed by a lovely dinner at Sarah Eve and Jordan's home, and then a movie with Ryan and Molly at SaltHouse.
Monday: Started with an acupuncture appointment. We're about done with my ankle, now working more intensely on sleep issues. Figured out how to back-up my phone on my computer and download podcasts to the phone. These are trivial things to most folks, but I've only recently had a reason to do this - more bus riding and opportunity to listen to podcasts! Yoga. Dinner. House meeting.
Tuesday: Cleaned the bedroom! Farmer's market and ate pie at Crixa. Then a book discussion group with Seminary of the Street on The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Clairborne.
Wednesday: Lunch with Marisa, pie at Crixa (again!), shopping for backpacking trip, yoga, dinner, dancing with Emily!
Thursday: House breakfast, acupuncture, lunch with Molly as I was cooking Dinner (early cooking because of leaving for Point Reyes backpacking Trip!)
Friday: Stroll along the beach. Sleeping in the warm afternoon sun. Reading about a revolution and contemplating my "in."
Saturday: Woke to threatening clouds and quick winds. so we packed up and headed to Bovine Bakery, then slowly made our way home to where I am currently blogging from. Tonight - Beer Revolution.
Sunday: School Work - so sad. But I feel great that I got to do so much during my break. Now, 10 more weeks of school. The count down in on.
Full Belly Farms Tour
Since oh somewhere around Spring of 2005, give or take a few months, we have been a member of the Full Belly Farms CSA (community supported agriculture). As a member, we receive a box of vegetables every Wednesday afternoon. Now that we live in SaltHouse, we get 2 boxes each week for the 6 of us.
Last month we read in the newsletter about visiting the farm for a tour. In 4+ years of getting vegetables, we never visited the farm and we thought it was about time to see where our vegetables come from.
93 miles away in perfect traffic = about 90 minutes of drive time. So easy, so beautiful, we're planning to come back in the fall for the hoes down party. Co-owner Judith was our knowledgeable tour guide. I didn't get any pictures of her, but you can find her at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market almost every week.
Oddly enough, I didn't get any pictures of the vegetables either. But they do grow them, and we de eat them every week.
I did get a picture of the chicken tractor... one of the co-owner's daughters was explaining how it works... every night the chickens go into the "tractor" for the night, then they close the doors and move the electric fence and chickens to a new field. In the morning, the chickens have a new home of fresh grasses and bugs, or whatever chickens eat.
They also lay eggs, but not enough for the CSA members to get them weekly... maybe someday.
After the tour, we enjoyed a picnic lunch. Three of us from SaltHouse were able to go (me, Grant, and Ryan). We packed a beautiful lunch - but alas, no pictures of that either.
After lunch, we wandered around looking for the creek which is one of Full Belly's water sources. On the way, we heard the cute cry of piglets - so irresistible that we had to go check them out.
oh farm life. So tempting. We're starting with our little plot of garden out in front of the house. Pictures to come of that soon... or not so soon given my track record with blogging.
Last month we read in the newsletter about visiting the farm for a tour. In 4+ years of getting vegetables, we never visited the farm and we thought it was about time to see where our vegetables come from.
93 miles away in perfect traffic = about 90 minutes of drive time. So easy, so beautiful, we're planning to come back in the fall for the hoes down party. Co-owner Judith was our knowledgeable tour guide. I didn't get any pictures of her, but you can find her at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market almost every week.
Oddly enough, I didn't get any pictures of the vegetables either. But they do grow them, and we de eat them every week.
I did get a picture of the chicken tractor... one of the co-owner's daughters was explaining how it works... every night the chickens go into the "tractor" for the night, then they close the doors and move the electric fence and chickens to a new field. In the morning, the chickens have a new home of fresh grasses and bugs, or whatever chickens eat.
They also lay eggs, but not enough for the CSA members to get them weekly... maybe someday.
After the tour, we enjoyed a picnic lunch. Three of us from SaltHouse were able to go (me, Grant, and Ryan). We packed a beautiful lunch - but alas, no pictures of that either.
After lunch, we wandered around looking for the creek which is one of Full Belly's water sources. On the way, we heard the cute cry of piglets - so irresistible that we had to go check them out.
oh farm life. So tempting. We're starting with our little plot of garden out in front of the house. Pictures to come of that soon... or not so soon given my track record with blogging.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Goodbye 2009!
Yesterday I asked my party guests to answer 4 questions posed by a favorite blog that I read fairly often. After we noshed on the cheesy fondue and before we dug into the chocolate ice cream cake, we said goodbye to 2009 and opened up to the possibilities of 2010.
Here are my answers for the universe.
Things that I want to acknowledge about me in 2009:
1) Trusting Grant w/financial matters and allowing myself to go part-time for the 2009-2010 school year.
2) Moving into a house with 2 other couples, even though I was feeling really worried and scared
3) New level of love and commitment with my beloved partner Grant, better communication then we've ever had.
4) Understanding more of my own needs (for alone time, activities, spiritual practices, creative outlets, etc.)
5) Receiving my National Boards Certification in Adolescent and Young Adult Mathematics
6) All of the work I have done as an educator (my level of reflection, planning, and implementation), my growth as a result of my national boards work and my work with my coach.
7) Creating more creativity in my life: jewelry, painting, journaling, and home yoga practice.
8) Transitioning from "It's my job" to "It's my calling and ministry" to work with impoverished urban teens in Oakland, CA.
9) Knowing that I could be a much better teacher/leader if I worked part time.
10) Finishing my Masters Degree from National University in Instructional Leadership
Things that I grieve or need to forgive myself for:
1) Not moving more towards finding real happiness in my vocation or making goals/future plans about life in CA or elsewhere.
2) Moving was scary and hard, I grieve some independence of living by ourselves in the apartment
3) Feeling like I'm just treading water in regards to developing and sustaining spiritual practices
4) Dropping tasks at church, not being as reliable as I would have wanted to be.
5) Feeling sad because we've lived here for 5.5 years and I still don't feel like I have a real Tribe of supportive women friends and still not sure how to create that for myself.
I declare 2009 Complete! No more looking back at that vision painting that I completed back in July 2007 and feeling sorry for myself that I have not moved forward on any of the goals that I thought were on my path to full aliveness!
In 2010, I invite God to do some Rearranging. As I take a closer look at how I spend my time, what do I value, what do I think I need to live, what I think is missing from my life, what do I think I need to be happy and successful, what do I think I need to be loved and to love others, what do I think I need to give myself or give away, what I think about or focus my attention on, I invite God to come in and give me her advice because listening to the ways of this world hasn't gotten me very far.
How about you?
Here are my answers for the universe.
Things that I want to acknowledge about me in 2009:
1) Trusting Grant w/financial matters and allowing myself to go part-time for the 2009-2010 school year.
2) Moving into a house with 2 other couples, even though I was feeling really worried and scared
3) New level of love and commitment with my beloved partner Grant, better communication then we've ever had.
4) Understanding more of my own needs (for alone time, activities, spiritual practices, creative outlets, etc.)
5) Receiving my National Boards Certification in Adolescent and Young Adult Mathematics
6) All of the work I have done as an educator (my level of reflection, planning, and implementation), my growth as a result of my national boards work and my work with my coach.
7) Creating more creativity in my life: jewelry, painting, journaling, and home yoga practice.
8) Transitioning from "It's my job" to "It's my calling and ministry" to work with impoverished urban teens in Oakland, CA.
9) Knowing that I could be a much better teacher/leader if I worked part time.
10) Finishing my Masters Degree from National University in Instructional Leadership
Things that I grieve or need to forgive myself for:
1) Not moving more towards finding real happiness in my vocation or making goals/future plans about life in CA or elsewhere.
2) Moving was scary and hard, I grieve some independence of living by ourselves in the apartment
3) Feeling like I'm just treading water in regards to developing and sustaining spiritual practices
4) Dropping tasks at church, not being as reliable as I would have wanted to be.
5) Feeling sad because we've lived here for 5.5 years and I still don't feel like I have a real Tribe of supportive women friends and still not sure how to create that for myself.
I declare 2009 Complete! No more looking back at that vision painting that I completed back in July 2007 and feeling sorry for myself that I have not moved forward on any of the goals that I thought were on my path to full aliveness!
In 2010, I invite God to do some Rearranging. As I take a closer look at how I spend my time, what do I value, what do I think I need to live, what I think is missing from my life, what do I think I need to be happy and successful, what do I think I need to be loved and to love others, what do I think I need to give myself or give away, what I think about or focus my attention on, I invite God to come in and give me her advice because listening to the ways of this world hasn't gotten me very far.
How about you?
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