<![CDATA[Krista Mason Movement

<![CDATA[Krista Mason Movement - Blog]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:38:33 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Keep Noticing]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/keep-noticing

Dear Friends,

This past weekend I had the privilege of taking a wonderful group of folks to the lovely Lake Anna in Virginia for a weekend retreat. It was my first time going to this little lake less than two hours from the DC area, and it was delightful.

Because the weather was going to be beautiful and warm on Saturday, at the last second I arranged for a group of us to have a three hour sunset pontoon ride on the lake.

It was a lovely trip exploring the lake with amazing company. Our captain was fabulous. We had some snacks and wine, some good connection time and an all-around relaxing trip…and at the end of our time we experienced a spectacular sunset to round out our trip on the water.

Turns out, however, three hours on a pontoon boat without a bathroom...add in some wine...is about an hour too many. By the end of our trip I was absolutely dying. So while I enjoyed the beautiful sunset, there was an amount of enjoyment that was totally overpowered by a need to pee with nowhere to escape to.

Spoiler alert, I made it back in one piece…phew…but not without telling our captain that yes, it was time to go to shore because our three hours were about to be up even though the sun hadn’t fully set.

These past few weeks have been hard, scary, exhausting…right? I was thinking about that sunset, and how I couldn’t fully enjoy it because of extenuating circumstances, and I think that’s our life all the time right now…it’s hard to decouple ourselves from the hard, scary and exhausting things that are going on in our world.

I don’t have any answers to give other than to keep showing up, keep being a light in this world, keep being good to those around you…and perhaps keep noticing those beautiful sunsets…even if you might be a little distracted.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love

Krista

]]><![CDATA[Not Quite As Good]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/not-quite-as-good

Dear Friends,

I stumbled across this tree while I was talking to my siblings the other day. I had to stop what I was doing, and totally lost my train of thought to get a picture of said tree…I did not get back to what I was saying to my siblings after that.

I use an app called Marco Polo to chat with my siblings, with my bonus mom and bonus sister, and with a couple of friends on the regular. It’s basically this video message app where no one is in real time, we’re all talking and listening when we, individually, have the opportunity to listen and talk. We can have individual chats, or chats with groups of people.

If we’re being honest, it’s not as nice as a phone call. It’s hard to have a real time connection when you’re basically talking to yourself, and there’s no real time reaction from the folks I’m talking to, because I’m not talking in real time to them, as they are not there with me…there is by definition less opportunity for real connection.

And yet, through this app I have found greater opportunities for connection in general…stay with me here…because I know I basically contradicted myself. Life gets so busy, and it’s hard to stay connected to the people we value and want to stay connected to...add in some different time zones, and wildly different schedules and that connection becomes near impossible. This app has allowed people important to me to maintain that day to day connection, to maintain that conversation in each other’s lives across time zones, states, the whole country…and that is a joy in my life, even if it might not be the best platform for real connection.

Sometimes the opportunity for real connection is abundant in our lives, and other times we take the morsels we can get, because staying connected to the people we love is important in this life we’re living, and connection, no matter how mediocre, is absolutely essential.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[A Moment]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/a-moment

Dear Friends,

Earlier this week we woke up blanketed in a layer of snow. Because of the high temperatures the week prior, the snow covered everything as far as I could see…trees, cars, holly berries, bare branches...the world was briefly covered with this beautiful layer of white.

I had a sudden change in schedule first thing in the morning because of said layer of snow, so I had an unexpected 30 minutes in my day that I don’t normally have. I was assuming, rightfully so, that all the snow would have disappeared from the trees by the time I was able to get out again, so I took a quick walk while I had the opportunity.

The only tracks I saw for the first part of my walk were deer, and I’m pretty sure a couple of foxes as I meandered down to the creek that morning, and the world was mostly quiet during my brief 20 minute walk…and boy, was the world around me beautiful.

By noon all the snow in the trees had melted away, and most of the rest of the snow was remnants. Streets were totally drivable and, unlike the last snow, said remnants didn’t cause a whole lot of disruption in the rest of the day.

As I was driving a little later that day, I was thinking about how we have these brief and fleeting moments of beauty in our lives…but as brief and fleeting as they are, we can still choose to stop, pay attention, and see the beauty around us, however brief that may be.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Making Time]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/making-time

Dear Friends,

I’ve had “teach myself double-entry bookkeeping and find bookkeeping software that I like” on my to-do list since about April of last year. While my spreadsheet bookkeeping did me just fine…or, one might say, did me adequately for many years, it was high time to find a new way of doing things.

At least once a week for the past 9 months I would bring up various software, stare at them, start free trials and inevitably do less than I should with the free trial time I had…I’d then get overwhelmed and set the task to the side and continue on my way with my merry little spreadsheets that I understood.

But here’s the thing, in all that overwhelm, I never created a dedicated space and time in my week to learn something new. Bookkeeping was on my list, it was a thing I knew I needed to get done, but I didn’t create space and time to make that learning happen…and so, spoiler alert, that learning didn’t happen.

At the beginning of this new year I carved out some space in my weekly schedule, put a recurring appointment for myself in that space, and lo and behold, was able to make that learning happen…and, let me tell you my friend, it feels great to have that checked off my to-do list and also to have that dedicated recurring appointment set up for a very needed part of my business.

I was thinking about my dilemma in regards to our movement practice. I think many of us do that same thing when it comes to movement. We know we should get it done, we set a goal in our heads, but we don’t create a dedicated time and space to actually make it happen...and then we grow frustrated and irritated with ourselves when that movement doesn’t happen.

My dear friend, if you’re feeling frustrated because you’re having a hard time showing up for your movement practice, I wonder how it might feel to set aside some dedicated time in your week for your movement practice…perhaps even putting it in your calendar as a recurring appointment, and then actually showing up for said appointment.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Loves]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/loves

Dear Friends,

These past several years I’ve had a changed relationship with Valentine's day. If we’re being honest, I was always a little salty about this made up holiday…I thought it was a day meant to make folks feel bad. I just didn’t like it. It made me feel grouchy and annoyed. I didn’t want to feel that way, but it seemed like every year that was the attitude I put on.

My dear friend was always the opposite of me on this day…emphasizing celebrating all of the various loves in our lives and treating the day as a joyful time without expectation, but full of love. I always admired her for it…and then went back to my grouchy ways.

But these past several years I’ve tried, and largely succeeded in embracing my dear friend’s (better) attitude, I’ve really tried to put on the fact that we can celebrate all the great loves we have in our lives, we can share and spread a little more love in our own lives by showing up for those around us.

Because, my friend, life is full of loves, and what a privilege that life is full of loves. Romantic love is just a small part of this life full of love we can create.

So, my friend, I hope this week, even if this day isn’t your favorite day, we can all embrace and spread love a little further, to a few more folks around us…I hope we can see a little more clearly all the loves we have in our lives. I hope we can love a little more deeply and fully.

Have a lovely week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Distractions]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/distractions

Dear Friends,

My kids got me one of those digital picture frames a year ago for Christmas…I loved it, but like any reasonable person, I immediately put it on the shelf and didn’t set it up until my son came home a couple of months ago and set it up for me. Since that time I’ve had a great time looking through my facebook memories daily, finding old pictures and sending them to the frame, and then being delighted when I see them again.

Sometimes we need distractions from the distractions, right?

Of late I’ve been taking a lot of epsom salt baths. I find epsom salt baths to be super relaxing and soothing to sore muscles and overworked bodies and it’s just a nice practice to soothe and relax. But, more importantly, I put my phone in a different room, I take my old as the hills kindle with me, and I sit in the bath and read a book while soaking.

It’s easy to get sucked into the anxiety of doomscrolling that we all inevitably get sucked into…and it’s hard to keep the chatter from our minds and bodies. But I think there are ways we can find purposeful and meaningful distractions from the distractions. Perhaps that’s a nice soak in an epsom salt bath. Perhaps it’s a walk with a friend where we leave our phones behind. Perhaps it's taking a class or wandering in the woods or finding old pictures to put in frames.

We can’t live distractedly all the time…but I think some well-placed purposeful distractions in our lives can do us good.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Our Own Backyard]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/our-own-backyard

Dear Friends,

We don’t have to go far to find beauty in our lives, we can look for it, we can notice it in our every day, in our daily surroundings.

Last Sunday, during the storm, my son and I got on our cross country skis, and skied down to Sligo Creek Park to go on a little mid-storm ski trip in the park.

By the time we got out the sleet had started in ernest, but it didn’t bother us, and for most of our skiing, we had great conditions. Toward the very end the stickiness started up, but for most of the time we were out, conditions were perfect.

It’s a good thing we got out that day, because by the next day the world was a sheet of ice, and conditions were terrible for skiing.

I was thinking, as I was skiing, how often we put off noticing the beauty of the world around us until we stop, we travel, we go somewhere different, we take ourselves out of our own lives and enter a different world…but, my friends, noticing the beauty in the every day, noticing the beauty in our own world, the world that is surrounding us daily, the world we move through day after day, that’s the thing that can make the real difference in our lives.

We don’t need skis, or a giant snowstorm to notice beauty. We can, every day, strive a little more to see the world around us, to breathe a little deeper, to slow down and notice, to find that beauty in the every day of our lives.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Progress, Not Perfection]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/progress-not-perfection

Dear Friends,

My kids, a couple of friends and I went cross country skiing a few weeks ago on an absolutely spectacular, snow filled day. There were a couple of new to skiing folks with us, so while we all had a great time, we weren’t exactly the fastest bunch out there.

How are you feeling, as we near the end of January?

My friend and I were on a walk earlier this week, talking about how we think we all need a little breathing space in January to come off the end of the year, the busyness, the holidays. We were talking about how goals for the new year might better be set in February or March rather than the month where we all just need to breathe and chill for a bit.

In light of that, whether you chose to make goals for yourself in this new year, or whether that isn’t your thing, I hope we can all remind ourselves that it’s progress, not perfection that should be our focus.

Celebrate the little milestones you reach. Celebrate the small changes. Don’t let the need for perfection prevent you from celebrating your accomplishments…or celebrating you.

A couple of weeks ago we made it to the top of the mountain. It took a long time, we were pretty slow, but we made it…and we had fun and was surrounded by so much beauty on the way to the top…and you know what, if we hadn’t made it to the top that day, we would have still had fun and been surrounded by so much beauty.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Hidden Gems]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/hidden-gems

Dear Friends,

There’s this miniscule nature preserve north of the City in Virginia called Scott’s Run Nature Preserve that I discovered for the first time recently. If we're being honest, it’s nothing much to write home about, a nice little green space outside the city with some walking trails and woods, but so close to the freeway that it’s near impossible to get away from the road noise, especially this time of year with the distinct lack of leaves on the trees. However, at the bottom corner of the nature preserve, on a little creek…one could only assume Scott’s Run…there's a cute little waterfall that empties from said creek into the larger Potomac River.

I was meandering through the preserve earlier this week, trying to get a little hike in before darkness caught up to me. As I meandered I was thinking about how, even in the most mediocre of times or places, we can still find beauty, we can still find wonder, if only we look for it.

It’s been a rough start to this year, my friends, and I think it’s near impossible not to feel the fear, the sadness, the darkness around us for so many reasons. And yet, I hope even in the midst of the space and time we are in, we can see the good, and we can still find beauty and wonder in the world.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Doldrums]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/doldrums

Dear Friends,

Ever sit next to a creek and watch a leaf stuck in a whirlpool, spinning ‘round and ‘round, revisiting the same spaces over and over again?

This year I noticed something. For the past several years, come January, I get in my head, and I get the doldrums about the same thing…over and over again, year after year. Turns out, January elicits an emotional angst in me, spinning ‘round and ‘round, revisiting this same topic.

I hadn’t realized until this year that this particular topic was a yearly trend, but now that I see it, I really do think it is. This particular doldrum manifests itself by making me want to curl up by myself and push people away…and I have to actively fight against it.

We all get that way, right? Those emotions that revisit us from particular triggers, or times of the year, anniversaries of events, or places. Emotions we thought we worked through, and maybe we did, but they still crop up from time to time to say hello.

My dear friend, if you’re in the middle of a time of doldrum, I hope you can be gentle with yourself. I hope you can see your emotions as real and valid. And I hope you can see your beauty and worth.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Looking Forward]]>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/looking-forward

Dear Friends,

Happy 2026 my friend! As we step into this New Year my hope for you is that your year has started out filled with love, light, connection and joy…without expectations and rules around areas you want to change unless those expectations and rules also bring you joy and excitement.

This is the time of year, right? The time of year where some choose to look at and try to implement shifts and changes in their lives…and while I’m convinced that the New Year really ought to happen in March when the world starts to get warmer, when mornings are lighter, when it’s simpler to get out of bed and it’s just easier to make good on those shifts and changes we want to make…rather than the dead of winter when our bodies and minds want comfort food and rest and the world is dark and cold, (and I would implement that change if I could!) I do think setting aside time to take purposeful looks at our lives and areas we would like to shift and change can be beneficial and good…so long as we can do so with less rigidity and judgment and more grace and love for ourselves if and when we stumble and fall along the way.

So, my dear friend, as we step into this new year and see the days get longer and the return of the light, I hope you are able to find less rigidity and judgement for yourself and those around you…I hope you are able to find more grace and love for yourself and those around you…and if there are spaces you want to shift and change I hope you can step into those areas with the knowledge that you are beautiful, wonderful, amazing and enough even without those shifts and changes.

Have a wonderful week and a very happy New Year, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Looking Back]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/looking-back

Dear Friends,

My first Christmas that I spent away from my boys, three Christmases ago now, I had a feeling of fear and desperation at the thought of spending the holiday by myself. So off I went to my sister and her family’s house…my sister's family might have enjoyed having some of the holiday to themselves, but I deeply needed a place to land and stay, and I will forever appreciate them being that place that year.

A few months ago, when thinking about this year's holiday plans without my boys, I was marveling at the difference a few years made. While that first Christmas by myself was surrounded by a distinct feeling of fear and desperation at the thought of being alone, this Christmas I was actually excited for a day to myself. I made plans to head to my sisters for Christmas Eve, and then to have a purposeful alone day full of movies, books, and a nice long soak in the tub on Christmas day.

As it turns out, instead of my alone day, I randomly decided a couple of weeks ago to buy a ticket to California to surprise my parents and another sister and her family on Christmas day, so, barring unforeseen weather circumstances, I should be in Cali when you read this, and my alone day is going to have to be rescheduled.

Even so, as I recalled the emotional difference a few years made in my own life, I’ve been thinking about the growth and progression in our lives. Sometimes when we’re in the middle of a journey we can’t see the growth and change we’ve made along the way, and it gets discouraging….but it takes looking back, recalling where we were and where we are now to see how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown.

My dear friend, I hope you can take a little time to look back and see your own growth as you walk through this life.

I hope you have an amazing week and a lovely holiday season full of connection and ease. I am so incredibly grateful to each and every one of you.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Where You Should Be Again]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/where-you-should-be-again

Dear Friends,

Last week I talked about those times we wander a little, but are not quite lost…

A couple of weeks ago I was in West Virginia hiking in one of my favorite wilderness areas, Dolly Sods. As I walked along the snow-covered trails and enjoyed the beauty of the world around me, I noticed the lack of trail markings. This particular wilderness area has trail maps, and signs at trail splits, but, on this particular day and on this particular trail I didn’t see any markings or blazes as I meandered.

It was clear where the trail was, there were plenty who had gone before me through the slightly snowy terrain, leaving abundantly clear markings where the trail was….but I was thinking, if I had come right after a snow, when the world was blanketed, unless I was deeply familiar with the trail and the terrain, it would have been wildly irresponsible of me to go traipsing through the woods.

Now, I’m sure there are many with which wandering on an unmarked and unclear trail covered in snow would not be irresponsible…perhaps those who grew up navigating maps and terrain on the regular, who could navigate said snowy trail responsibly…but, let’s be honest, that’s not me.

It wasn’t irresponsible of me that day a few weeks ago, because my trail was clearly marked by those who went before me…but as I walked I was thinking….while there are times wandering a little can be the right thing, there are also times it is best to decide when to stop, when to turn around, when it’s time to call it…whatever it may be in your life.

I hope you have an amazing week my friend, and the trail ahead of you is clearly marked, or if not, you know when to call it.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Where You Should Be]]>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/where-you-should-be

Dear Friends,

I was in Rock Creek a while ago, right at the beginning of the fall when the leaves were just starting to turn. On my way home from work I decided to pull over and get a little walk in the woods in my day. It wasn’t a spot I normally park, so I entered the park by a trail I am not particularly familiar with, and then immediately got on a trail that in time became clear was not a “real” trail, but was more like a cut-through.

As I meandered through the woods, I realized I knew approximately where I was, I was in no danger of getting lost, but I didn’t actually know where I was. I could pinpoint an approximation on a map, but certainly not with any real accuracy. And while I wasn’t lost, I also didn’t know exactly where I was, and I didn’t know exactly where I was going.

I eventually ran into a trail I was familiar with, and suddenly I knew exactly where I was.

As I walked I was thinking about how this space I suddenly found myself in feels very accurate to life sometimes. There are times we don’t know exactly where we are, There are times we don’t know exactly where we’re going…and there are times when it takes a little wandering through the unknown to get to the known...and that can, at times, feel very disconcerting.

My dear friend, if you’re feeling a little lost in the woods of your life right now, I hope you can find a little more peace right where you are at this moment, and perhaps, in time, you might find a little more clarity to know exactly where you are and where you should be.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Embracing Imperfection Again]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/embracing-imperfection-again

Dear Friends,

A couple of weeks ago I talked about my experience with the Kintsugi workshop. As you might remember, Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold, creating something new in the process.

The first part of the workshop was, if we’re being honest, really frustrating…trying to accept and embrace the imperfection of the art, while also trying to get the pieces to just stick together. It took patience, waiting, deep breaths, more patience…and still the pieces of my broken vase wouldn’t stick together.

After what felt like forever, I finally propped something against two pieces so they stayed together, and then quickly put the other two together so the four pieces were supporting each other.

And after that it was easy to build one piece on another…because the pieces in the base were supporting each other and in turn were supporting the rest of the vase.

I was thinking about how true that is in life…when we’re willing to reach out and accept the help and support of those around us, how much easier life can be. Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that, as a wildly independent person, it’s hard to ask for and accept help and support…but I do think life is easier, better, and more full of love and community when we’re willing to reach out to those around us and accept help when we need it.

I hope you find a little more support, community and love this week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Thankful]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/thankful

“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.”
— Jen Sincero

Dear Friends,

The past several weeks, as all the taller trees have turned bare and lost their leaves, forming their long lines against the sky, the underbrush in Rock Creek Park has been putting on a show, bursting with this abundance of color.

My dear friend, I know there are many differing emotions surrounding us as individuals as we move through this week of Thanksgiving and move into this season of holidays. Even as we acknowledge the various emotions we might be feeling, whether good or bad, I hope we can begin to shift our perspective from lack to abundance even in the midst of challenging emotions.

And as we move past this day of Thanksgiving, I wanted to pause and tell you all how deeply grateful I am for each and every one of you. Thank you for being in my life, for being part of this journey we’re walking on. Thank you for the abundance you bring to my life. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you to be on this journey with me.

I hope, as you move into and through this holiday season, you can feel the abundance, you can focus on the good around you, you can shift your perspective a little more.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Embracing Imperfection]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/embracing-imperfection

Dear Friends,

This past weekend I had the great privilege of spending a few hours at a gathering for a friend who had completed a long emotional journey and wanted to commemorate the end of said journey with a weekend away.

As part of this weekend of commemoration, my friend brought in a woman who does Kintsugi workshops…Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold. Instead of hiding the cracks, it highlights them as part of the object's history, embracing imperfection, and creating something more beautiful and resilient than before.

Kintsugi is often seen as a metaphor for life, where those areas of hardship and hurt are used to build and create something new, something different.

As we broke and built back our pieces of pottery, our workshop leader kept reminding us to breathe into and embrace the imperfection…she reminded us that we aren’t going to automatically be good at something that is brand new to us, but part of this process, part of this art is letting go of the expectation of what we think we will create, and leaning into the process of creating.

My dear friend, sometimes it’s hard to let go of the expectations we build around ourselves and the need to be perfect…but I think if we can let go of expectations and lean into the process of creating, we can find ourselves building something unexpectedly beautiful.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[The Other Side of the Ridge]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-other-side-of-the-ridge

Dear Friends,

This past weekend I had the great privilege of spending a weekend with some wonderful folks on a retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It was a spectacular weekend…the weather was perfection, the company, wonderful, I had a lovely time.

A few weeks prior to that I had taken a little road trip up to that area to “pre-hike” the hike I planned on taking us on…I wanted to make sure I knew where I was going and that the trail would be appropriate for my people.

The hike was called the ridge hike, appropriately named as I spent the first half of the hike on the top of a ridge overlooking the state park on one side and the road on the other. That whole first half of the hike, while lovely, was accompanied by the sound of traffic on the road.

And then I turned and started down into the valley, and all the sounds of traffic faded away and was replaced by the sound of the wind moving through the trees. As I kept walking down, the sound of a little stream filled my ears.

A small shift, a slight change in direction and elevation made all the difference.

My dear friend, I hope, if there are areas in life right now where noise is just too much, you can make a small shift and a slight change to find a little more peace.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Glimmers Again]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/glimmers-again

Dear Friends,

My neighbor has this Japanese Maple in her backyard. It makes me happy every day as I get to see it turn more and more red as we move through the season. Soon it will be a bright red and then the leaves will fall.

A few weeks ago I talked about glimmers…those pockets of goodness and delight that we can train our brains to notice and be aware of. One of my friends was telling me, the other day, how she always had a hard time with what felt like the obligation of a gratitude practice, but is having a much easier time noticing and being aware of those glimmers in life…it simply feels more accessible.

I think one way we can train ourselves to notice those glimmers more often is to start when they’re easier to see, to notice. This time of year we have colors cropping up everywhere we look…the yellows, oranges, bright reds of fall are all around us…soon those leaves will be on the ground and the lines of winter will be all around us, but right now, right now we can see and notice colors all around.

My dear friend, I hope you can start to notice those glimmers in your life when they are abundant, so when the abundance starts to fade you can still see and notice them…because, my friend, the glimmers are there no matter what the season so long as we’re willing to look and notice.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Not all who Wander are Lost]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/not-all-who-wander-are-lost

Dear Friends,

Did you know cats use the earth’s magnetic fields to navigate back to their homes from far distances? How cool is that?

My cat got out and went wandering earlier this week. I didn’t realize it for a couple of hours…not until I saw the automatic food bowl had dropped food and wasn’t immediately consumed as is normal.

Growing up we had various indoor/outdoor cats in my household, so one would think I would be comfortable with cats wandering in and out. And yet, Woody has always been an indoor cat and so mild panic set in when I realized he was gone and had been gone for a while and off I went, wandering in the rainy dark night, trying to find my cat.

I didn’t end up finding him…but he eventually meandered back home and meowed on my front porch to be let in before I went to bed.

It’s that uncertainty and unknown that sometimes gets to us, right? I have lived experience with cats that are both indoor and outdoor, and yet, my own is not and causes anxiety when he decides to be a little escape artist.

My friend, if uncertainty and unknown is getting to you today and messing with your mind and body and causing worry, I hope you can breathe a little deeper and let go of that worry a little bit, even in the midst of the unknown.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

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