How goes your week, friend? Are you clipping along, devouring earthly pleasures and churning out little accomplishments like the superwoman that you are? Are you gleaning insights and deepening relationships as you go? Are you counting your many blessings? I hope so. I hope January has thrust you into light and strength like you have not yet known.
I have been enjoying a week of both pause and nourishment, a few days to really deeply water my roots in anticipation of a VERY busy couple of months soon to begin! It’s been kind of a breather between the holidays and springtime, and I have loved every delicious moment.
Right now I am working through distilling my thoughts on Little Women while also reading through the hefty and completely worthwhile Dietrich Bonhoeffer biography. So I am flanked by both sweetness and grit, and it’s perfect.
The gardens are whispering to me constantly, but it’s still time for them to rest. So I suffice myself with houseplants, seed catalogs, and manure collection. Are you planning your spring gardens yet?? I would love to know what my friends from around the globe can cultivate!
Physically, my strength resolution is ramping up. In just ten days I begin half-marathon training, and that is pretty darn exciting! In the mean time, I just run as often as time allows, do a sit up here and there, and eat slightly less sugar than I did in December. Baby steps, you know?
Speaking of resolutions and words, a couple of weeks ago Handsome and I opened the farm for one last bonfire of the holiday season, which turned out to also be our first social gathering of the New Year! It was so much fun. A handful of our friends (from different circles, by the way, which is so cool!) gathered around the fire, tossing in our past year’s regrets and pains into the flames, helping each other let go. We laughed and laughed and ate too many marshmallows. Then we wrote our intentional words for the New Year on a big chalkboard in our stairwell. One of these days I will actually download those photos and share the chalkboard image with you. As a group we came up with some pretty great words!
I better scoot, but I wanted to wish everyone a very happy end to your week! I hope your first few weeks of this New Year have been good to you and good for you. Keep doing your best and count your blessings! Life is beautiful.
“Let us love winter,
for it is the spring of genius.”
~Pietro Aretino
xoxoxoxo
P.S. A very grateful thanks to my friend and fellow book clubber Erica for sharing this photo she snapped as she pulled into the Lazy W recently. We love our friends and treasure our guests so much! I really appreciate it when you share your joy too. xoxo
Anonymous says
How about super fellas?
Heather - New House New Home says
I love you. That’s all. You inspire me with every post. I need to take more time to reflect, pause and nourish my soul. You make me want to do that.
Vesuvius At Home says
Oh, I love that shot of the ranch! It’s so great to see it from that view. I also love your burning your sorrows idea. I wish I had a garden planned, but I’m realizing I just don’t have it in me. Maybe in another lifetime.
The Barn Swallow says
I agree great picture! and thats neat yall open the open to friends and family for bonfires and marshmellows.. one of a few things i miss living in good ol Oklahoma, here there are many rules and regulations.. I think its because City folk make the laws and forget there are reasonable good country folks who still know how to live and behave… ahhh such the life living in the country being dictated by the city