 Dear Friends,
I hope this week filled with various holidays, as we head towards the close of this year and the beginning of the new year ahead, finds you well, content, joyful, and perhaps with a little bit of breathing room. This past week I took off work with absolutely no agenda. It’s a rare thing for me, taking off work for a whole week when I have no plans to travel…but I decided, after many many months of an over-full life with multiple moves and fixer-uppering, high school graduations, college decisions and life changes, that this was what I wanted…a little downtime, a little pause with zero agenda. Yes, there are still things on my moving to-do list…but they’ll still be there when this week is over. It’s been lovely, this zero agenda…full of too much food and little movement to go with it. Late nights and late mornings. Hanging with my boys and sitting with my cat. Listening to my boys and their friends cackle downstairs. Cooking with my sister and brother-in-law. Movies, books and some games. Spending a whole day in cozy onesie pajamas. And a little bit, but not too much, responsibility. And as I move toward this new year, one thing I am resolved to do is to take a few more pauses in my own life on the regular…to slow down and breathe, to give myself space to sit. Yes, the full and the fast was a necessary part of the last phase of my life, but now that I can, I will slow down, breathe, and pause. My dear friends, I hope, if you are able, you can give yourself a little more space and permission to slow down, breathe and pause this week. Have an amazing week and a very happy New Year. Love Krista
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 Dear Friends,
Tomorrow is the winter solstice…the shortest, darkest day of the year and the ushering in of a new season and the return of the light. I’ve been thinking a lot about how we combat that physical darkness. This time of year many put up brightly colored lights and decorate our houses. Sure, those actions come with a certain amount of stress and rush, but for many the act of decorating and celebrating is a balm and a way to combat a dark time in the year. Earlier this week, a friend and I were driving home on a dark and rainy night. As we were driving, a brightly lit jeep came up beside us. It was top to bottom covered in lights, a beacon of light and color in a dark and stormy night. It was a lot, there is no doubt that it was a lot…and it just made me smile, it made me happy to see that brightly colored and lit up…one might say gaudy…jeep. My dear friend, if your particular season is slanting towards a bit of darkness, I hope that you can find pockets of light, color, brightness and joy amidst that darkness. Have an amazing week my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
This past weekend I unexpectedly had both my boys home. On Saturday afternoon we randomly decided to hop in the car and go down to DC to the botanical gardens to see the holiday train display before it closed up for the evening. As we were driving away from said gardens, we noticed a phenomenal sunset in the making. We flipped around and parked, got out and watched as the sky deepened into reds, pinks, yellows and oranges all around us. This sunset was an absolutely and utterly spectacular display of colors. This is the time of year, this time when life is a little colder, as we approach the shortest and darkest day of the year…it is the time of year when our bodies and minds would like us to take life a little slower, a little less rushed. I don’t know about you, but slower has never been my lived experience this time of year. Life feels fuller and faster. But whether you’re able to take life a little slower, and a little less rushed, or whether your experience is fuller and faster and a bit more frenetic then you would prefer, I think we can all find spaces to pause, to stop, to notice and to watch a beautiful sunset when the opportunity presents itself. My dear friend, whether your season is fast or slow, I hope you are able to take some pauses. Have an amazing week. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
I made a big pot of lentil soup earlier this week with broth from my Thanksgiving turkey bones and lentils from my 25 pound bag of emergency lentils. Yes, you read that correctly, a 25 pound bag of emergency lentils. So, at the very beginning of the pandemic, I, like many of us across the world, didn’t know what was going to happen and had a certain level of stress due to that lack of perceived control. In that stress, I convinced myself that I needed to buy a 25 pound bag of lentils…because, well, dry lentils have a long shelf-life and the fear of food scarcity was real. Did I ever need said lentils? No, no I didn’t. They sat in my basement on a shelf, used when I would think about them, forgotten about a good deal of the time. And now, almost 5 years later, I can see the bottom of the bag…we are coming to the end of my era of emergency lentils. While I didn’t ever need said lentils, I have no regrets about purchasing them. They were a purchase that allowed me to feel a certain amount of relief and control in a time that felt very out of control and scary. My dear friend, if there are areas in your life right now that feel a little out of control and scary, I hope you can find pockets of relief amidst those times…even if said relief comes in the form of a 25 pound bag of lentils. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend! Love Krista |
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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