 Dear Friends,
One morning, earlier this week, I was sitting under the awning of our vacation cottage while my boys still slept, enjoying the view of the canal next to me, the rain that was singing to me as I sat, and the cup of coffee in my hand. As I watched the rain fall, a plant across from me caught my eye and entranced me for quite some time. The particular leaf on this plant that caught my eye was slightly bowl-shaped, and would collect the rain water as it fell. The rain water made a beautiful magnification of the star shape in the middle of the plant as it collected. The plant would gather the water, and then at a certain point when it got too heavy would lean over and let said water drop to the earth. The plant wasn’t crushed by the weight of the water, when it got to be too much, it simply leaned over and released the water's weight. As I watched the dance of the water and the plant, I was thinking about how it might feel if we all took a little lesson from this plant. Certainly, we will never be able to release all of our responsibilities when they get to be too much, but how might it feel if, when we inevitably gather too much in our lives, we simply let go of some of those responsibilities instead of allowing them to build until we are crushed under the weight of them. Perhaps we can turn that tipping point in our lives into an intentional letting go. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista
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 Dear Friends,
So, as I said last week, we are currently in the throes of fixeruppering in my house…it’s for sure not a fun space to live in, but it is what it is. It’s a time and space, with an expiration date. For months leading up to this time and space I’ve been in a place of deep anxiety where my house is concerned…I live in my house day to day, I see all the things we still need to fixerupper on a daily basis, I know the massive list I need to get done…that list looms in front of my face…and yet, for months I have been feeling stuck, lonely, and helpless to get said things done on my own. But a couple of weeks ago my ex, my kids and I really dove deep into fixeruppering together…seeing as, like I said, we have an expiration date that is looming before us. And let me tell you, this massive list of things that I need to get done is still massive, at times it still feels insurmountable, but the anxiety, well, that anxiety is significantly lower because we’ve been working as a team to get things done. Yes, I was tired from working long days and nights, but even with a physical exhaustion, that anxiety was just not at the forefront because I didn’t feel so alone in the work. I didn’t feel so alone. We are not meant to go it alone, my friends. We are meant to have support and help, to have people who have our back when we’re feeling vulnerable and weak. We are meant to have people we can reach out to when we just need that little boost of support. My dear friend, if you are in need of support this week, I hope you can reach out to the people in your life…because we are not meant to walk through this life alone. Have an amazing week. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
A couple of evenings ago the light became a particularly foreboding color of orangish-yellow. The clouds smoothed over and looked like water, and for a while it looked like a big storm was brewing…said storm never really came to pass where I was, but it sure did look threatening. In the midst of the threat, there appeared a huge rainbow across the sky…beauty and calm in the midst of what was threatening to be chaos. Currently, in my own house, we’re doing some significant work to get it ready to put on the market…and let me tell you, it looks like a bomb went off in my house. Every surface is covered with things and dust, whole areas of my house are torn up, the whole of my kitchen is currently in my dining room…it is not my happy environment to live in. But a few things I keep coming back to during this time of chaos in my own life are, for one, this chaos is just for a limited time. Yes, this is a time and space of chaos in my life, but it has an expiration date. The other big thing I work on is how can I find calm in the midst of a chaos even when the chaos is hard to get away from. These days one of those methods of calm in the midst of chaos is avoidance...I’ll avoid going downstairs when I’m not working on the house so I don’t have to spend more time than necessary in said chaos. Another is daily reminders that this time and space has an expiration date. The other thing I am really looking forward to is a vacation with my boys this coming week, where I am really hoping I can put this fixeruppering to the side, recognizing that it will be there for me when I get home, but I can spend this time away without it weighing me down…here’s hoping I can do that! Sometimes the chaos is unavoidable, but there are spaces where we can find a little more calm in the midst of them. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  The Summer Day
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver |
Hi, I'm Krista!Krista Mason is a movement instructor based in Washington DC. She founded an online strength, yoga and movement studio, teaches group classes, hosts both local and overseas retreats, hangs out with private clients, and absolutely loves the work she gets to do. Archives
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