 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
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 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  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  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  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 |
Hi, I'm Krista!Krista Mason is a movement instructor based in the Washington DC area. She founded an online strength, yoga and movement studio, teaches group classes, hosts both local and overseas retreats, hangs out with private clients, writes weekly blogs and absolutely loves the work she gets to do. Archives
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