“Don’t we all just want to find a mate and sing our song and imagine that life won’t end in a blink?” Gahhhhhhh, so beautiful. I love your words, they are like feathers on the face, making my body relax. Speaking of: congrats on massage therapy school. Omg YES!!! Driving my car to Ohio STAT for your services lol. I mean, don’t worry, I know you’re a student and I won’t really show up on your doorstep (yet) but I believe in you!! Also yes to holding it all (and to blind rage omg my nervous system needs helllllp…) So happy for this missive and all that it holds. 🌻 And, as discussed, I deeply believe in tuning toward what beauty we can make in this world (as opposed to, say, hell in a hand basket rhetoric). While also, of course, tending the fields of grief with our hearts and integrity. Anyway, you get it! Love this update and your pride(s) and joy 🌿
None of them include my fairly recent obsession with tarot—which I am really enjoying learning! (Also, I took massage therapy classes many years ago and never pursued it as a career but liked being able to give that kind of care where it was wanted.)
What!!!? That makes me so happy! The tarot AND massage! At this point I’m just having a lot of fun learning the techniques & nerding out on the A&P. But I’m hoping it can be a source of income eventually and a gift to share in the meantime. Also, my special needs kiddo has loose muscles (not tight) but all my kids are touchy feely and have already been begging for bedtime massages 😆
And tarot is such a wonderful hole to fall into!! lol
I think body work of any kind of is always something the world needs more of. I’m glad you’re getting into it! And I totally get the kids — my kids still ask for massages, though mostly shoulders and feet these days. I use a sleep oil from Mountain Rose Herbs with them and they love it. Sleep Easy Oil, I think.
I was in Portland, OR, for a week recently with my son and we spent a LOT of time in Powell’s. I bought 3 tarot books! It’s become an almost daily routine, just for myself. I’m liking it!
Lindsey! I was so happy to see this newsletter pop up! I was just thinking last week I had been missing your writing, but I figured you had been busy with kids at home for the summer. Congrats on starting a new program!
The idea of holding all the differing emotions at once has been a big one for me lately. I’m feeling the joy of getting to travel and see family, and the frustration of a body that’s uncooperative when outside of its routine. I’m feeling the relief of not heading back to school as a teacher right now, and the grief of being away from the classroom for 3 years and unsure if I’ll ever make it back there. I’m feeling the love of my life as it is, and the loss of how it used to be and can be no more. And so many other emotions!
I appreciate the reminder to practice the things that bring us back to ourselves. I’m not always the best at committing to do that day in and day out. The practice that I’d like to lean into more that brings me back to myself is reading poetry. I’m taking this as a nudge to carve out a little time for poetry this week.
This means a lot Kelly 💞 and thank you for taking the time to respond.
That is a lot to hold. I hope you find some space for poetry and that the practice fills you up and helps your heart to grow and grow. I don’t have a regular practice of reading poetry either, but when I do read it I am always filled to the brim. Poets have such a unique way of holding so much with so few words.
“My heart just keeps growing to take it all in.”
I love that line. 🫶 And thanks for the tag. xo
“Don’t we all just want to find a mate and sing our song and imagine that life won’t end in a blink?” Gahhhhhhh, so beautiful. I love your words, they are like feathers on the face, making my body relax. Speaking of: congrats on massage therapy school. Omg YES!!! Driving my car to Ohio STAT for your services lol. I mean, don’t worry, I know you’re a student and I won’t really show up on your doorstep (yet) but I believe in you!! Also yes to holding it all (and to blind rage omg my nervous system needs helllllp…) So happy for this missive and all that it holds. 🌻 And, as discussed, I deeply believe in tuning toward what beauty we can make in this world (as opposed to, say, hell in a hand basket rhetoric). While also, of course, tending the fields of grief with our hearts and integrity. Anyway, you get it! Love this update and your pride(s) and joy 🌿
How beautiful. Glad to receive your voice and words again! And congrats on massage therapy school—I’m sure that will feel wonderful.
Thank you 💞💞 I’m excited!
And I’m also excited to catch up on all your words I’ve missed over the last few weeks!
None of them include my fairly recent obsession with tarot—which I am really enjoying learning! (Also, I took massage therapy classes many years ago and never pursued it as a career but liked being able to give that kind of care where it was wanted.)
What!!!? That makes me so happy! The tarot AND massage! At this point I’m just having a lot of fun learning the techniques & nerding out on the A&P. But I’m hoping it can be a source of income eventually and a gift to share in the meantime. Also, my special needs kiddo has loose muscles (not tight) but all my kids are touchy feely and have already been begging for bedtime massages 😆
And tarot is such a wonderful hole to fall into!! lol
I think body work of any kind of is always something the world needs more of. I’m glad you’re getting into it! And I totally get the kids — my kids still ask for massages, though mostly shoulders and feet these days. I use a sleep oil from Mountain Rose Herbs with them and they love it. Sleep Easy Oil, I think.
I was in Portland, OR, for a week recently with my son and we spent a LOT of time in Powell’s. I bought 3 tarot books! It’s become an almost daily routine, just for myself. I’m liking it!
That makes me so so happy. May it give you so much joy and insight! (Also, Powells!!🤩)
Lindsey! I was so happy to see this newsletter pop up! I was just thinking last week I had been missing your writing, but I figured you had been busy with kids at home for the summer. Congrats on starting a new program!
The idea of holding all the differing emotions at once has been a big one for me lately. I’m feeling the joy of getting to travel and see family, and the frustration of a body that’s uncooperative when outside of its routine. I’m feeling the relief of not heading back to school as a teacher right now, and the grief of being away from the classroom for 3 years and unsure if I’ll ever make it back there. I’m feeling the love of my life as it is, and the loss of how it used to be and can be no more. And so many other emotions!
I appreciate the reminder to practice the things that bring us back to ourselves. I’m not always the best at committing to do that day in and day out. The practice that I’d like to lean into more that brings me back to myself is reading poetry. I’m taking this as a nudge to carve out a little time for poetry this week.
This means a lot Kelly 💞 and thank you for taking the time to respond.
That is a lot to hold. I hope you find some space for poetry and that the practice fills you up and helps your heart to grow and grow. I don’t have a regular practice of reading poetry either, but when I do read it I am always filled to the brim. Poets have such a unique way of holding so much with so few words.