Write Mind Open Heart

I own that

Lavender Luz — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:38 +0000

Jane asked us at the start of yoga class to silently compliment ourselves on something. In the space of seconds I discounted everything that came to mind. On my body? That’s my genes. On my children? That’s someone else’s genes. On my writing? That’s due to my dad, my 7th grade teacher, Melissa, y’all who [...]

Outliers

Lavender Luz — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:15 +0000

An open letter to ministers, yoga teachers, and anyone addressing mothers and fathers in mid-May or mid-June. Dear Person at the front of the room, I know you worked really hard on that homily about Mother’s Day / Father’s Day. It’s a time of joy and appreciation and community for almost everyone in the room. [...]

Five ٥ 5 cinco 五 fünf ★ cinq V

Lavender Luz — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:45 +0000

High five, everyone –it’s my blogoversary! Year-by-year highlights of my blogging and personal lives: In 2007 I joined the blogging world via a Peggy Orenstein book and the Barren Bi+ches Book Club. My brother-in-law was near death from Guillain-Barre Syndrome and my children were 6 and 4. I had just taken up yoga .Back then [...]

Time Warp Tuesday: Mothering

Lavender Luz — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:18 +0000

I’m participating in Time Warp Tuesday, the monthly blog hop offered by Kathy at Bereaved and Blessed. This week’s theme is Mothering, and our assignment is to: Choose a blog entry from your archives that you wrote about mothering. It can be a post where you talked about your own experience as a mother, one [...]

All that’s left

Lavender Luz — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:37 +0000

About the time I started middle school (or, as we used to say, “junior high”) I had exasperated my piano teacher to the point where she decided I had to find a new teacher. I still don’t know how I flummoxed my mom so. I suppose it could have been my legendary stubbornness. (Example: My [...]

VIPs: Very Important Posts from April 2012

Lavender Luz — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:23 +0000

We sometimes talk about a person being “full of himself” as if it were a bad thing. But really, who else would a person be full of? Watching a child become full of himself is a beautiful thing to behold, as witnessed by Judy Miller in her post Full. A found videotape led to several [...]

Suit yourself

Lavender Luz — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:00:50 +0000

Do you feel like: your physical self is prepared for the activities you ask it to take part in? your mental self is prepared for the tasks you ask it to accomplish? your emotional self is prepared for the life you ask it to lead? I was thinking about this the other day as I [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Core issue

Lavender Luz — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:00:40 +0000

Core! That’s what my yoga teacher focuses on in class Tuesdays and Thursdays. She’s come up with all sorts of core-building poses and movements to torture us strengthen the structures of our torsos. I rarely seek out additional opportunities to work my core. But one came up this month. One night, Tessa, Reed and I [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Tessa in the round

Lavender Luz — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:00:03 +0000

Like last week‘s Wordless Wednesday, this photo was taken during our Spring Break trip to southern Colorado, this time to the Royal Gorge. Tessa (in turquoise) and I (in coral) were on the merry-go-round and somehow the ride, my shutter finger and my phone’s camera perfectly synched this photo.

Open adoption agreements: to codify or not to codify

Lavender Luz — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:00:48 +0000

Open adoption bloggers are meeting for the 36th time at the roundtable. This go-round we are discussing open adoption agreements. Is there one in your open adoption? What effect does it have on your relationships? If you could go back in time, would you approach the agreement differently? No. N/A. No. Thank you very much, [...]