beauty that moves

busy and me

Busy and me don't really get along. Sometimes I think it's just me, that I should be able to juggle more, plenty of other people have fuller plates than I do. But then I crawl out from under the shroud of self-doubt and realize that no, it's not me, Busy is truly just a pain in the ass... an uninvited guest that won't leave. Busy, come July and August, I am instating a zero tolerance policy for you.

It's so lame that I come here every couple of weeks with the proclamation that "I'm too busy to post - hang on - it'll get interesting soon - I hope..." I've never really thought of this as a Craft Blog, I'm not nearly as talented or prolific as most of the talented ladies out there. It's also not a Food Blog (though if I had decent lighting in my kitchen for photos I guarantee you it could be!). It's not a Yoga Blog. Yoga is just about the most precious thing in the world to me, how it has impacted, healed and changed my life could never be captured with words. Occasionally I try, but the words never really suffice.

So, not sure where I was going with that. Maybe to say that really, this is just a Heather Blog. And dang it, Heather is busy these days. Have I mentioned that I'm a soccer mom now? Whoa. Didn't see that one coming did you? Me neither! ;)

So there you have it. Let me direct you elsewhere for good times right now.

Let's see... check out this video posted by Vegan Yum Tum (turn up your volume), it makes me want to make food videos. But I settled for making the recipe instead. It's awesome and simple, I am so in love with butter beans right now. (I added garlic, I always add garlic.)
Broccolini, Cherry Tomato and Butterbean Udon from lolo on Vimeo.

Also, l am so loving Lisa Hannigan. Oh my.

Finally, be sure to stop back on Friday or over the weekend For May's First Friday Giveaway. Get ready folks. It is over the top gorgeous, generous and fabulous. Seriously.

Okay, sorry for the go nowhere post... see you Friday then!

a year of planning and exploring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Normally when we head to Vermont, we head straight to the woods and sleep on a dirt floor. This weekend was different. It marked the beginning of our year long journey to explore the various communities of Vermont, to find the one that is a match for us. We ate at local places, combed potential grocery stores, looked at schools, searched for real estate. And through what sounds like a busy weekend, we all felt incredibly quiet and still. We breathed easily. 

We are looking forward to many more trips like this throughout the year.

Our plan has always been to return to Vermont when Emily completed sixth grade. We fully recognize that given the current climate, we will need to be more creative than ever to make our dream a reality.

We will either have our home sold or rented (whichever comes first) and be headed north, one year (and 2-3 months) from now... to live.

In Vermont.

Permanently.

Let's hope life has the same plan for us...

a whole lotta good going on

Things feel like they are overflowing right now, in the best of ways. I love when that happens, so I'm going to go ahead and revel in it for the next few days.

~ I finished my new yoga room here at the house, the timing was perfect, a month long Tantric Hatha Yoga Workshop just began and I am so grateful to be taking it. So there is some pretty consistent yoga going on at the moment. Regular, on the mat practice slipped with the start of my new job, but the workshop this month requests the discipline needed to reclaim that. Exactly what I needed.

~ Headed to Vermont for a warm and sunny spring weekend. Bliss.

~ Last week Iris emailed me with a link to her friends blog, she thought I'd like to check out a new project he has going on... it's pretty incredible and completely inspiring and hopeful. You should check it out too. It got me thinking... and with that came a question for you.

If the current hand you are playing in life folded... whatever it is you 'do' right now, if today was your final call... what would you then do? It seems we all need a Plan B these days. I think of my own husband, and the Rough Houses he's made. He likely never would have had the time to explore that part of himself if he wasn't unemployed those several months.

So tell me... what thing, skill, service or offering do you have up your sleeve that could be tossed out to the universe while you waited on resume responses? What kind of business would you drum up? I'm not talking about a major start-up that requires venture capitalists and commercial real estate... think cottage industry, low start, little if any overhead. Got anything? I bet you all do...

Thanks for playing along, I'll go start things off in the comments.

a recent trip

 

 

I have tried 894 ways to write this post and it keeps coming out all wrong. So here it is... We went to New York recently and it was fantastic. Outrageously fantastic!

Except for the horses in Central Park. This makes no sense to me, or to my eleven year old. I glanced through my mentally archived parenting manual for the chapter that covered "how to tell your child why it is okay to strap a horse to a cart so humans can sit under velour blankets and ride around taking pictures of themselves and the scenery while traffic and people and bikes and noise that is noisier than noise all whiz by just a hoof's length away...."

I chose to defer to these words spoken by someone much wiser than myself...

"Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes you just have to cut to the chase.

almost there

 

We were hoping to go to Vermont this weekend but I have a meeting tomorrow that I cannot miss. So, we'll head up next weekend... which is fine because instead I've been spending the day fixing up a few corners of that room of mine, we are so close to being done now!

I've been dreaming of a corner like this for quite a while.

Now, I think I'll go pour a glass of wine and settle into my favorite chair right there... enjoy the rest of your weekend.