Colourful Threads

I have over twenty books waiting on my shelf for me to read and enjoy. After a discussion on one of my home school boards, I thought I would share my list here.

Here are some I’m working on right now:

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There You Are also by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
Time Management from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World by Craig and Marc Kielburger

Here are a few that my children asked me to read so we can share the adventure:
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Confession Of An Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Here are some I am reading for educational purposes (mine and my children’s)
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

What are you reading?

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Last year was a wild ride and I’m still feeling the effects of the drastic changes in my life. It sounds cliche, but somewhere along the journey I lost track of “me” and spent all my time worrying about what I was supposed to be, instead of cultivating who I already was.

Now I’m looking around and feeling like I missed part of the trip. I was so busy digging around in the luggage I forgot look out the window.

Well, there isn’t any going back. I may travel the same road again, but I won’t be the same, and the road will probably have changed as well. So I am deciding I need to try and forget about the luggage and just enjoy gazing out at the brilliant vistas of my life.

My life is good, whether I believe it not.

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Every year we receive a few bags of outgrown clothing from friends and neighbours. Sometimes item are more mature than my girl can comfortably wear.

This shirt is an adult small, but it fits my 11 year old daughter well, except that the neckline is a little more plunging than she felt comfortable with.

My children are not very fond of wearing undershirts so instead, I hemmed the three sides of a triangle and then hand sewed it onto the neckline.

It looks great and my daughter loves her “new” shirt.

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We braved -27C with a windchill making it -38C for just under an hour to see history pass. The longest torch run in Olympic histroy passed by our doorstep and we headed out early this morning to see it go by.

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Slow down.
Breathe deeper.
Plan less.
Worry less.
Smile more.
Sew more.
Spend more.

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