Life in the slow lane

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Ghandi

Make time for just you

Put your feet up 

Fall into a book

Watch rain drops slide down your window pane

Take long baths --- 

one character in a Joanna Trollope novel calls them 'immense' baths

Do one thing at a time and enjoy it enormously

Build  connections

 

Take inspiration where you find it

Not so regular resolutions

Happy New Year

New Year's Day…now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. 

Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  

Mark Twain

4 not-so-regular-new-year resolutions for 2012:
 Make time for art ----- every day;
Do something creative that is not focused on an end product  ----- every day;
Keep a journal of ideas;
Use a sketchbook.

We really did have a White Christmas

With only 20 minutes to spare for a White Christmas, 

the snow came down.   

We woke on Monday morning to a sparkling day.

The holiday season had a lot of hussle and bussle but is was also a wonderful family time.

Some highlights, dear to my heart:

 

Amy flew up from North Carolina -- a short visit but wonderful too!

Victoria returned from London--- just in time!

 And, I got to meet the twins, Anna and Nola

Here they are with big sister, Evie.

Steve and Joann came east from Seattle to spend 5 days with us.

But now in these post-Christmas/pre-New Year days,

I am feeling a lazy kind of relaxation

and enjoying sleeping in, letting the days evolve and become what they may.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh