I started my day with Megan teaching me tricks on Photoshop Elements.

I then ventured outside to tackle the overwhelming amount of leaves and yard debris.
Five hours later I was exhausted and my body ached. My backyard looks beautiful, until the wind starts blowing.

I ended my day with dinner at Mama Lucias. 

I am currently reading Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender. This book caught my interest when I read.....

"I do not want to spend my life making a mess and then cleaning it up.

These incomplete tasks weigh on me-my mind often focuses on what I am not getting done rather than what I am doing"

 I am trying to de clutter and simplify my life. But here is the irony of this statement. I have recently committed myself to a structured exercise regime(which includes my yoga certification program), signed up for 3 one month long internet creative workshops. One on photo journaling which I am currently involved with, the second workshop is about painting and starts in a week and the third is about writing which starts in two weeks. One of my justifications for enrolling in these workshops is they will provide me content to blog with as I am trying to blog every day. Yeah I know basically I am nuts. In one breath I preach my need for quiet and simplicity and the next moment I am acting on my fear of not having enough creative inspiration in my daily life. My need for solitude is in direct conflict with my need to be connected.

I glued the pictures in my journal and created the colors on the pages around the pictures and now I am stuck. I want to journal on the colored paper around these pictures but I cannot find the words to write. I have become so obsessed with how the words will look on the page that I have no idea what to write. So now I am wondering what is more important the actual design of my letters/word or the content of what I am writing? 

I should be working on yoga homework but I got sucked into photo shop. My time was well spent as I learned a couple new tricks. I love how you can delete and add color any place you disre. After I post this I am going to print the images and use them in my photo journal for an assignment about "juxtaposition" noun

1.	an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.

2.	the state of being close together or side by side.

 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali succinctly outlines the art and science of Yoga meditation for Self-Realization. It is a process of systematically encountering, examining, and transcending each of the various gross and subtle levels of false identity in the mind field, until the jewel of the true Self comes shining through.

When Patanjali codified, or compiled the Yoga Sutras, it was not that a new system was created, but rather, the ancient practices were summarized in an extremely organized and terse way. While the Yoga Sutras are thought to be as old as 400 BCE, archaeological evidence and other texts suggest that the methods described in the Yoga Sutras were being practiced as early as 3000 BCE. Oral tradition states that the period may be even longer.

“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”

The Wonder Years quotes