moving...

Dear Friends,

I'm moving...

...to WordPress. I hope you'll stop by my new home: Art of Guesture.

I've been working on creating a new space for myself. In honor of my word for 2013... CREATE, I have decided to make the move to WordPress. Art of Guesture has grown from the need to create a place for a new beginning. I have been so happy with what has come from mother/father's daughter, and what I have tracked over the past two years. From Grad School to San Francisco - through new jobs, bad relationships, supreme highs, embarrassing lows and a heavy learning curve, I'm so pleased that it is documented.

As I was saying goodbye to my old home, I giggled a little at the first sentence of my last post:

i've got a stagnant itch and it's telling me that it's time to go somewhere.

Ta da.

I hope you'll enjoy what grows here. A bit of daily life, commentary on what I hear-read-see, photos, music and (as always) whatever I feel like throwing out to the universe.

If you follow me on Blogger, Google Reader or other fancy tool, I hope you'll take a moment to update this URL. It's pretty easy - www.artofguesture.com

Welcome to my new home. I'd love to hear from you.

space...

i've got a stagnant itch and it's telling me that it's time to go somewhere.

anxiety has come up quite often in conversation recently. i have a sneaking suspicion that more of us feel moments of anxiety than we care to admit. for some it's severe and even debilitating, for some it's a passing thought.

SHE TAPPED HER CHEST WITH HER FINGERTIPS. "WE ARE BORN WITH EVERYTHING IN HERE: EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE HAPPY AND COMPLETE. BUT AS SOON AS THINGS START FRIGHTENING US, WE GIVE AWAY PIECES OF OURSELVES TO MAKE THE FEAR GO AWAY. THAT'S THE DEAL: YOU WANT IT TO STOP SCARING YOU, SO YOU GIVE IT A PART OF YOURSELF. YOU GIVE AWAY YOUR PRIDE,YOUR DIGNITY, YOUR COURAGE." -JONATHAN CARROLL 

i get it. i feel it first in my belly. like my organs are shifting and then it travels into my ribcage. i don't panic... anymore. for me, it's a sign that i'm not in balance. that i'm over-complicating. over-worrying. over-doing. it's also a sign that i'm moving too fast and skipping over the details to achieve something rather than savor (or suffer) the process.

today i've got that feeling. today it feels like a push to get moving. to honor my word for 2013. create. i'm creating some new projects - creating a new financial plan - creating the space to have choices. and more than that, i'm declaring it here. putting it into history to hold myself accountable. i am creating space for a trip to india, a move to be with the one i love, savings in order to have more than $6.13 in the bank the night before the bills are due and for more dancing. there's space for it all. as long as i create it.

are you honoring your 2013 word still/yet? 

weekend inspiration...

 some images inspiring me to study this rainy evening...

weekend video...

trust me. you need to watch this before you start your weekend. it's been a while since i've shared it, and it feels like the best way to start the first weekend of 2013.

THE Kelly Clarkson Driving Dance from the dance/theater piece, 'genesis, no!' by Adrienne Truscott performed by Carmine Covelli and Neal Medlyn at PS122, NYC, 2007.

2013

i have to say, i'm pretty pleased that the world didn't end in december. I know that's a completely ridiculous statement and i never actually believed the world would end. so, in a non-related sort of way, i sure am glad we're all still here and that we've opened the door and made ourselves comfortable in 2013.

last year, every time i said the year out loud, 2012, i followed up by saying the future, even though it was obviously the present. because, doesn't 2012 (and now 2013) sound like the future? for someone who grew up in the 80's and remembers bad technology, 2012 (and now 2013) really is some far off, distant future. 

well, here we are. living in the future.

i rang in 2013 by sleeping through it. on purpose. jordan and i couldn't spend the evening in the same city, so i decided to treat myself to a great night's sleep and enter the new year without feeling hungover, over-indulged or with any oops/regretful feelings. i went to yoga on new year's day where we did 12 sun salutations, one for each month of 2012 and then i got a massage. a brilliant start to 2013.

as far as resolutions go, i'm with tolly... i usually break them. i started reading her blog a few years ago and really love her idea of setting a word for the new year. instead of making a list of rules to follow for the year (which never works for me, because as soon as i make the list i devise plans to break all the rules), she sets a word. a word to make decisions by and with. an intention of sorts.

a few weeks ago, i began thinking about what my word might be and what i'd like to accomplish.

create.

i'd like to create opportunities for myself professionally, personally, in my relationship, in my artistic and writing life and my spirituality.

maybe it's the season, or the common age... or just a need for new... because tolly's word is also create - with a twist, of course.

so, here's to a year of creation and creative energy, in the many forms in which they come!

what's your word?