This has been a challenging year in so many ways, but for me it has been a year of accomplishments.
I made more art between July 1 and Oct 1 than I have made in the last ten years. I learned how to weave. I learned how to make a basket and a net and a rope and to felt and crochet. My hands know how to do so many new things. I've returned to old skills especially knitting and have completed three sweaters in the past three months. I am on roll. I have completed and hope to publish a chapter on resiliency and art therapy for kids in foster care. I completed the first year of my training as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner which was one of the the best decisions I have made in years. Because of this training I have a better understanding of my own nervous system and am conquering old physical and emotional patterns as a result. I live with less pain both physical and emotional. I have spent the year working with a wonderful chiropractor who has aided me in this as well. Years of lower back pain from skiing injuries have now faded into minor issues. That is a major accomplishment. These new skills will help me to help others do the same
I have also witnessed and participated in the accomplishments of this country. I have witnessed and participated in the rise of awareness that our democracy is at risk and engaged the urge to action. I have helped push the election of Democrats in national and local races by phone banking and canvassing and making calls to my representatives and writing letters. I have learned how to lobby for changes in legislation, which I did with Mom's Demand Gun Sense in Albany for common sense gun regulation. I am proud and I am hopeful that we can move forward from what is low point in our political history.
Of all the accomplishments however the one that may have been the most helpful to me and of which I am most proud has been this commitment to gratitude practice called OGT DAILY. That may be why this blog post and the last are a day or so late. It is going to be hard to let go and I chose to end on Martin Luther King Jr Day because that is the day on which I started.
And cheers to you for all your own accomplishments the past year and thank you for reading all these many months!
I made more art between July 1 and Oct 1 than I have made in the last ten years. I learned how to weave. I learned how to make a basket and a net and a rope and to felt and crochet. My hands know how to do so many new things. I've returned to old skills especially knitting and have completed three sweaters in the past three months. I am on roll. I have completed and hope to publish a chapter on resiliency and art therapy for kids in foster care. I completed the first year of my training as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner which was one of the the best decisions I have made in years. Because of this training I have a better understanding of my own nervous system and am conquering old physical and emotional patterns as a result. I live with less pain both physical and emotional. I have spent the year working with a wonderful chiropractor who has aided me in this as well. Years of lower back pain from skiing injuries have now faded into minor issues. That is a major accomplishment. These new skills will help me to help others do the same
I have also witnessed and participated in the accomplishments of this country. I have witnessed and participated in the rise of awareness that our democracy is at risk and engaged the urge to action. I have helped push the election of Democrats in national and local races by phone banking and canvassing and making calls to my representatives and writing letters. I have learned how to lobby for changes in legislation, which I did with Mom's Demand Gun Sense in Albany for common sense gun regulation. I am proud and I am hopeful that we can move forward from what is low point in our political history.
Of all the accomplishments however the one that may have been the most helpful to me and of which I am most proud has been this commitment to gratitude practice called OGT DAILY. That may be why this blog post and the last are a day or so late. It is going to be hard to let go and I chose to end on Martin Luther King Jr Day because that is the day on which I started.
And cheers to you for all your own accomplishments the past year and thank you for reading all these many months!
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My son and daughter wearing their new Christmas sweaters. |
Beautiful sweaters!
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