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04/01/2021
Brody Quinn is 7 today! My middle babe, our first sun, monkey bar swinging, professional debater, beat boxing, strong willed, April fools baby.
Dropping some of last weeks statements for our memory bank...
B: Mom what’s a hippie?
M: a hippie?
B: Yea, Dad said you’re a hippie
B: when you and dad get old and die they’ll probably only be Tesla trucks around
03/28/2021
Shop L O C A L 🍑🥦
03/18/2021
I am deeply aware of the energy in me and around me. I am sensitive, empathetic and a feeler. I have grown to appreciate all of those parts of me, instead of denying them I uplift them, I highlight them and I follow them. It is these parts of me that connect me to Self, to God, to You.
Because of these I also am grieving. I feel deeply hurt.
We are living in a world where we constantly witness the pain we inflict on each other.
Today Brody asked me what a hate crime is? And why people on the news talk about the color of people’s skin the way they do?
My heart hurt answering these questions honestly to my 6 year old. And I will continue to talk about this in my house with my kids daily so they know better. Because when we know better we do better.
Change begins in our own homes. It’s taken 6 years for my husband and I to talk about these issues peacefully. We have different outlooks on many things socially, politically, but when it comes to raising conscious compassionate kids we’re aligned. Our kids will be raised understanding that even their own parents with many differences can be respectful, see each other’s perspectives and love each other very much. It doesn’t always look pretty but we do it anyways.
My prayer is that we do the work as individuals that we must do to evolve as a collective so that the future generations can experience peace, harmony and forgiveness.
☝🏾 what my current asana practice looks like. I was hoping for a nice release of some tears on my mat tonight but they never made it up.
This would only sound like an odd request if you’ve never had the kind of emotional release that yoga asana can provide. My first few years of practicing and teaching were mostly about the physical part. The emotional, mental and spiritual layers always lingered below that physical surface just waiting for me to dive in.
I’d receive little glimpses here and there especially navigating motherhood, marriage, and big life changes. Most of those glimpses were short lived back then because of my fears to really know myself fully, to lean into my intuition instead of quiet her the way I had coped most of my life.
I’ve spent thousands of hours on a yoga mat searching for connection with myself dancing through these postures while Self was always there. Fast forward years later I still show up here moving through postures but more so moving PRĀNA, up ☝🏾 and down 👇🏾every breath is intentional. There’s no fight or force in my practice. I show up, sometimes i move, sometimes i sit, always listening, with no expectation, just trusting the process.
I’m grateful that my yoga mat can be as vast as an ocean for me to dive in whenever I feel up for it.
Tonight was the first time I had done asana in months and
No tears, but also no tears 🥰
3.17.21
03/11/2021
Coco & Sally have been great at snacking at the weeds and bugs in the garden, they’re excited about the tomatoes growing😍
03/02/2021
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Ariel ☝🏽 made this shoot happen somehow in under an hour and we got to walk around and enjoy in the process ✨ We haven’t had professional pics done since before Jonah was born and these were extra special to remember Kaliiya’s 15th birthday week 🤍
02/28/2021
15 years around the sun with her✨
You are light. You allow others to shine wherever they are. You are more go with the flow than the ocean itself. Your depth runs beneath the surface. You are the comfort of rainy days and hope of the sunshine. Your story is epic and your future will bloom in your own summers, Thank you for being my first and forever baby, my greatest teacher, courageous, one of a kind, loyal, wholehearted and free.. I love you
02/26/2021
Showin off my forever crew ✨
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02/23/2021
Sometimes when he’s go go go I make him do a staring competition with me just so we can breathe together and I can stare at those beautiful big eyes!
02/07/2021
4 generations of crazy...enjoying this fine Sunday morning and trying to hold Lola back from yelling at another waiter ❤️
01/22/2021
Seedlings < sunflowers, basil, arugula, spinach, broccolini, cilantro & jalapeño >
Swipe to see the Super Sprouter we use.. I bought it at our local hydroponic store and it’s probably on Amazon as well. It’s our own little indoor greenhouse and has made growing seedlings so much better!
01/05/2021
Moments I want to remember with this dude 🧡
Walking out of Trader Joe’s after a lengthy conversation with the sweet girl that checked us out.
B: she was nice
Me: yea she was
B: she was nice and also really curious, like she asked about our whole life
Me: 🤣🤣💀💀
Yesterday I was attempting a 5 min resting of my eyes and Brody kept bottle flipping a water bottle right by my head (iykyk) and after he wouldn’t stop I told him “if I were to be doing what you’re doing right now when I was a kid my dad would’ve taken off his belt and spanked me with it.”
Brody: so your dad was always wearing a belt? (Continues to flip his water bottle)
Me: annoyed but laughing because I love his brain