Christmas

All I want for Christmas is peace in my belly. I feel so unsettled! Things have to mellow out for me soon.

Seriously (cough, Mom) neither I nor my husband need anything.




OK OK I hear you! Here are a few little things we would enjoy if buying little things for us makes your holiday sweeter:

Membership to the Organic Consumer Association

A slotted spoon. Seriously, we want a metal slotted spoon, just the size for serving green beans from the soupy bowl for a table of three to six persons. Not a 12'' long monstrosity.

Cowboy Bebop DVDs
Princess Bride DVD
Firefly Series DVD

SmartWool socks Christy sized!

Rechargeable AA, AAA, C Real Goods has some nice ones
hand-crank combo radio, light, cellphone charger

CDs-
Sting Dream of the Blue Turtle

Currency- we are on a big debt payment kick. Our goal is to be debt free in 24 months. We can do it, but it is going to be tight. Your monetary gifts will give us a bit of wiggle room without jepordizing our goals.

goodies!

I got a digital camera for Christmas!!!

and an external hard-drive (they really seem to go together) ;-)

Flickr, here I come!

I am excited about all the possibilities this Winter season has provided me. Now I only need to budget my time & resources to maximize my fun fun fun.

I hope you are doing well and getting into the swing of this new year!!

She's back!

This has been a large, large year for christyna.

I am hopeful that all my rich experiences will result in some interesting ponderings here.

The most interesting piece of late is that I have met someone who is so much fun! He challenges me and invites challenge back. He is thoughtful, passionate, and committed to his own growth as a human Being.

Also, expanding my musical tastes.

I will keep you posted. hehehe

Economics!

I have been revisiting my core philosophies lately, many of which are economics based. I realize that they are so with me, and usually unexamined, that I would have trouble explaining them to anyone in a coherent way.

This state, for me, is problematic. I believe that if more people shared my worldview, more people would be happy, empowered, and quirkily makng their own way in this world (and THAT means more fun for me, because my favorite people to meet are happy, empowered & quirky).

So I am very excited to find this book reviewed at a fellow bloggers site:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/191215.ctl

Economics for Humans. Fantastic! I am a human! I will let you know how it goes after I pick it up from my fav neighborhood bookstore.

Blessings & Berries,

Christyna

a moment of remembrance for victims of violence everywhere

Waiting

I am making new discoveries each day, getting to the feel and shape of my blockages. I am praying & hoping that this knowledge will help the blockages dissolve! I want to be the energetic, optimistic, take-life-as-it-comes person I was.

I feel like I'm in trouble, or running late, or disappointing someone most of my waking hours lately. This feeling is familar and distasteful.

I have begun to see glimpses of my optimistic, having fun self again. Now to notice and nurture those.

Love you to all!

Community Rocks!

I am back online, with a real computer in my very own room!! Woo-who!

I have been juggling and borrowing computer time from friends, coutrymen, and most regretably employers for the past three months. As much as I like to think of myself as a Ludite, technology really makes life much more managable.

The best part is that my computer is one a friend just had lying around for parts.

I hope this first post of 2007 is the first of many this year. I am interested in seeing how this life unfolds.

Roller Derby!

Last night I went to the roller derby. What a trip! The audience ranged from 2 to 80 years old, from emo boy to hard drinkin' grizzled old men, to teetotaling lesbians, and everything in between.

With my move, I now have a whole new set of primary associations and pockets of time (and energy), that I am filling with interesting people and health-supporting habits. Although, I have had to adjust my experience of a health-supporting habit because if I lose any more weight I won't have the muscle strength to do my work or my gardening. Having to explicitly plan to eat enough, and enough fats, to sustain myself is a new and not entirely pleasant development.

Be well.

Solitude & Communion

Well dear ones, it is official. My living situation is changing dramatically. I am moving into my friend's dining room, recent massage clinic, now Christyna's den. My partner is moving into a small solitary space. He will have the cats with him, so he won't be entirely alone.

What an experiment! I will be in a vegetarian house with four other women. We range in age from 21 to 36, 2 lesbian, 2 straight, 1 'humansexual'. My main house-care task will be to tend the front garden! Everything outside the fence is planted with the intention to share with the neighborhood, so abundent beauty only! No taciturn tomatoes, or shrinking violets for that area. Only basil, rosemary, blackberries, and profusely flowering ornamentals.

Gardening is good for the soul and the back!

Grace & gratitude,

Christyna

Oy! My aching back

Last year's slipped disk issue looks ready for a repeat. Eekk! What is about this time of year, my seasonal habits, that leaves my spine unsupported? I am casting back for the exercises and advice my chiropractor gave me. Lots of fluid, less sitting at a desk. Especially gentleness in my morning routines.

I am also experimenting with yoga and walking. I cannot be laid up half the summer again. My life is shifting rapidly and I want to be able to keep up with it!

Ciao!

Dust & Fury

Oh my! I'm about to be overcome by strong emotions, I think I will . . . clean?

I have been digging deep lately, wondering how so much of my life got on autopilot. The road to my ideal life has so many intersections on it, I'm afraid I wasn't paying attention and took a wrong turn (or failed to turn at a fortuitous juncture). So this is always with me and this weekend, when I realized that I had had TOO MUCH (how do you know? I knew when I watched 6 movies on the TV instead of attending either of the fabulous parties I had been heartily invited to. Turning into a zombie is NOT HELPFUL. thanks.)

What did I do? I cleaned. Can you say non sequiter? I have purged a 2' stack of books, all of my "rooster collection", and 35# of old papers. The funny thing is that I feel better. Maybe I am molting. Maybe soon I will sprout wings and fly.

Ciao!

Delirium

Today I feel in close touch with the universe. It's a mixture of insufficient sleep and a full day's work done well. I am in the place, workwise, that I know I am meant to be. Not forever, but for now.

I am learning to manage people, volunteers at that. To be clear, supportive, open, and effective with the people in my life, this is the ultimate practice. I'm not sure how long I can hold this asana, but I am going to enjoy it now.

What is your current practice? How do you keep that with you through-out the day?

Loving you,

Christyna

The Crud

I have the Crud. It began as a sore throat (2days) then sniffles & sneezing (1day). Now my whole neck & haed ache with congestion. Why do all my illnesses lately resolve themselves into abysmal headaches. I went to bed at 5pm yesterday and slept through the night! My co-workers sent me home this morning.

This gave me time, and I don't know what gave me energy, to photograph all the art currently hanging in my apartment. I will post it to my Flickr account this afternoon.

Health & hopscotch!

Community Relations

How do you create community? I know that you are. Each of us makes, accepts, or declines opportunities to engage the beings around us a hundred times a day. Do you pay attention to this?

Each situation has so much to offer. I am helping to run an organic vegetable co-operative. Yes, you can buy tasty fruits and veggies at a good price, but it is the community coming together to create this that makes it a) special and b) possible to do (our prices barely cover our little overhead & labor costs).

I have been less involved with the front end lately, just stepping up to hold more of the back end processes. When I return to our public space I notice a very different, more muted group. There seem to be fewer personal interactions. Or maybe I'm just not touched by them so I don't see the community building interactions? I don't know, but I'm concerned.

I want to bring our community creating aspect to the foreground for our volunteers and cashiers, etc. who are publiclly holding the space for our co-op, but I'm not sure how. Somehow, "hey guys, let's be patient and listen to the whole person, while also continually inviting others to participate" seems too abrupt and "hey remember we're building community" just inadequate.

Stop. Listen. Learn.

Thanks for visiting.

My cats, Independence and Victory, are sleeping all curled together. This is a rare demonstration of litter-mate love. Usually they prefer Pounce and Destroy! games.

My blogsphere peeps, a question-how do I create the right column lists of websites & other blogs I enjoy? Is there a quick set-up option. I want to share the love!

Wilkommen!

I'm back, I'm in, I'm on the way out.

It is rare this Spring to have a bright and cool afternoon to play in, so I will have to catch-up with all my internet savvy friends later.

Hopefully, this space will help me balance the scales of media input & output.

Love to my wandering Nusquamites!