Endurance

My word today is endurance. A little similar to perseverence. There's a theme going on. I was reading about trees and learning to communicate/being open to receive wisdom from trees. And the word for Aspen is endurance. I chose Aspen because I feel like my tree at this point in my life would be aspens. I name of the yoga studio I go to is Aspen Ark because rather than having a yard with grass she has a yard of aspens. In our own backyard we have quite a few aspens. We had a bunch of new growth this year. There are 4 taller aspens, probably at least 5-10 years old and in the center is a new baby aspen, born this year. I was guessing it would have sprung up around the same time Jude was born, so we dedicated that tree to Jude. In many cultures it is common to bury the placenta underneath a tree and the tree is often visited or consulted with to inquire about the health of the person. Since I chose to take part in placentophagy (consume the placenta) I couldn't bury it, but I still wanted to have a tree for Jude-so we chose the aspen in the center of the 4 proctector trees.

I also have an affinity with willows. Maybe because of you mom, but I have always loved willows. The word associated with willows is magic. Pretty cool.

So today I spent my 30 minutes on a beatiful walk around my house with the baby. We walked around the front and then headed into the back to walk by the creek. We walked through the beautifully illuminated field, and I just couldn't stop being in awe of the beatuy of this place. The snow peaked mountains in the distance, the yellow rolling hills, the guiding "M" that overlooks the city. I really love living here and when I see the sunset rising above the mountains, I can't help but be grateful to be alive.

There was this wonderful exercise we did in kundalini yoga yesterday. It was supposed to be beneficial for clearning away anger and burning up negativity and any weird or yucky things. We did it for 3 minutes. My yoga teacher said she did that exercise everyday for 40 days and she said it had a phenomonal affect on her life. I think I'd like to give it a try. I could just incorporate it into the daily 30. So I've been really excited about the progess of our project up til this point. We've had some lag periods where we've all kind of just stopped blogging, but we are still hanging in there and I think the physical activity has been doing good things for all of us so far. I think doing the anger burning move for 3 minutes might kick things up a knotch. All is well in my world and affairs.