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Hi friends! 2023 continues to be a Greek tragedy for me so I have been clinging to bits of joy wherever I can find them. If you’ve been here a while you know I get joy from cooking so the other day I felt like making something involved and delicious so I made these Green Bean Bundles with Bacon and Brown Sugar. Over the weekend, Nicole graciously made space for me in the room that is to be the office/studio (but is currently full of boxes) and we got my desk and workspace set up. There are still piles of boxes next to me but it feels good to have a space to work that isn’t also the rest of our living space (we’ve been working at the dining table). Of course, I put large prism stickers up on the window so right now, I get extreme rainbow action in my workspace for about 1 ½ to 2 hours each morning.

Today I want to talk a bit about meeting ourselves where we’re at right now and not where we used to be. It’s a way of thinking and moving through the world that can be applied to a range of things and it’s something that I often struggle. I’m going to start with perhaps the most obvious example of what I mean before we dig in and look at other applications.