Joyful July

It has been a Joyful July!

I finished up Unravelling: Ways of Seeing Myself with Susannah Conway.  I am still reeling from that amazingness.

I launched my new project, Relay Mail.  I have put 25 pieces of Relay Mail out into the world so far and will continue to.  If you are interested in participating, please email me at relaymailproject@gmail.com and provide your snail mail address or email address and I will make and send you a piece.

My husband will turn 30 on Saturday.  This is momentous and mind-boggling for him.  I have been planning many festivities for the upcoming weekend.  Finally, I feel like it is all coming together.  Details to follow, as he reads my blog.

To top off this Joyful July, my best friend will be a mom any day now!  She and I have been friends since we were 12.  Her husband and my husband have known each other since kindergarten.  I am so so so excited to meet the little bit baby girl and so so so over-the-moon for her parents!!!!! 

July...Joyful, isn't it?

P.S. August brings The August Break.  There is also a link/button in my sidebar.  Join us, won't you?

The 10K

No real deep, meaningful words yet.  It was humid and hot.  I ran the whole thing, no stopping.  Even ran by the water stations with my hand out for the water.  Finished in 1 hour and 16 minutes. Amazing.  For now, the photos (all taken by my husband).  Insights will follow at a later time.

Final 7

Go out to do every day errands dressed to the nines, gown & all

Learn how to do a cartwheel, even if you only do one

Row a canoe on the Charles River

Participate in a health study

Apply for writer's retreat/conference/residency

Take an Adult Intermediate Swim Class

Learn more about being a messenger of light

More of the List

Go to Sedona, Arizona ( a spiritual center, vortexes)

Become a parent

Play piano again (even just a little electronic piano)

Have piece of my art displayed somewhere

Make pasta from scratch

Speak in front of a sizable crowd of people

Learn bookbinding

Get Pierce trained as a therapy dog and start volunteering with him


8 more added to the list... 7 more to be added later...  I never thought making the list would take such time for me.

29

I turned 29 on the 15th,  Another year gone by.  A year filled with so much growth.  For the first year in a very long time, maybe ever, I truly look back and see and feel a wonderful change, a transformation that is still in the process of occurring...we're all works in progress.

The past year was all about inner, emotional growth and overcoming the past.

Feeling more self aware and more stable in myself, I feel prepared to take action this year, to come outside of myself and show the world what I have to offer.

Lists help me to stay on the right track. So,...

30 Things to Do Before I am 30:
See one book length writing project through to completion

Get Relay Mail out of my mind and into the world  (DONE! 7/8/10)

Plant seeds in edging around backyard parking

Begin a paper journal again

Do one painting a month

Rent a table at a craft fair and sell some of the beautiful things I have made

Run a road race of any length (DONE! 10K on 7/4/10)

Volunteer at local food pantry or get involved with St. Ann Society

Take road trip (maybe to the Outer Banks?)

Contact Mrs. DeLorenzo and/or Ms. Pepin and/or Miss. Sullivan.  Teachers who changed me.

Watch AFI's Top 10 titles (just need to see Citizen Kane and Casablanca)

Audition for local play

Be an extra in a movie or commercial

Weekend Getaway by myself

Send short piece of writing to magazines to be considered for publication


Well, that is 15 of 30.... a start.