I'm coming out of blogging hibernation because this kale salad was so damn good. I made it without the raisins...
All is well, just busy with other projects!
"You will lose everything. Your money, your power, your fame, your success, perhaps even your memories. Your looks will go. Loved ones will die. Your body will fall apart. Everything that seems permanent is impermanent and will be smashed. Experience will gradually, or not so gradually, strip away everything that it can strip away. Waking up means facing this reality with open eyes and no longer turning away. But right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground, for that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realizing this is the key to unspeakable joy. Whoever or whatever is in your life right now has not yet been taken away from you. This may sound trivial, obvious, like nothing, but really it is the key to everything, the why and how and wherefore of existence. Impermanence has already rendered everything and everyone around you so deeply holy and significant and worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude. Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar." — Jeff Foster
One of my favorite bloggers wrote a post about our dinner nanny. Fun! You can read it here.
I am constantly collecting natural "treasures" and this nature mobile would be a lovely way to show them off. I also like this one.
Ted is really freaked out by feathers so of course I am drawn to making this garland.
HP Arete from Arete - HP ES Culture Network on Vimeo.
I was in Texas this week launching a program that my team has been working on for the last 8 months. You can see the launch video here (most stuff I work on is behind company walls but this is viewable by anyone). Really fun.
I just watched this one hour talk by the founder of Charity Water. Really amazing. I highly recommend it.
Luke (yelling up the stairs): Mom, I need help undoing...
Me (yelling downstairs): Try control Z!
Luke: I need you to help me undo something.
Me: Press the control key in the lower left, then Z and hold them at the same time.
Luke: I need you to help me undo a knot on my shoe.
Lola (dancing): Control Z! Control Z! Control Z!
I have always wanted to have a stack of cozy "go to" sweaters". But I rarely have more than 1 or 2 a year that I wear. My sweaters are either too small, too big, too itchy or get holes in them. So I was surprised that my two favorite sweaters right now came from Target and were really inexpensive. Sweater 1. Sweater 2.
This weekend Ted and the kids gifted me with time to do a writing/painting/storytelling retreat. I met some lovely people and hung out in a beautiful space doing fun things. I travel so much for work that I rarely want to leave my family for non-work things and this month I am doing it twice! I'm grateful to have such a supportive family.