Now, I know that I have plenty of friends, but it is true that I have very few friends to "break bread" with. This is a particularly harder time of the year because everyone wants you to eat their specially-made holiday foods. 

I'm doing some spiritual digging deep right now to figure out how to enjoy people as they are, and have a fun way to deflect all their judgments of my choices around food and way of life. OR, do I just spend the holidays on a deserted island?

Love, Karin

(PS, I know the headline is wrong, can't seem to edit it!

Lately I’ve been very busy. Between art shows and regular work I have not felt like I have had time to breathe, yet I have. And meditated. Whew. I thought I would be less busy by now, but I now remember that between October 1 and December 31, every year time flies by. Then January comes and it is OK to slow down, and you relax. I hope to carve out time to interact with you all more! 

I have a request. I am toying with a new product - a note card with a photo and message from a flower. I am wondering if anyone here would like to test it out for me. I reduced the price by $5 for a couple of weeks to see how people react to it. Here is the link:

https://www.karinedgett.art...

For those of you that don’t know me, I’m an artist or creator as I prefer, and the flowers have been speaking to me about energies they offer to assist in changing the world and assisting people through their journey with a message or by prints or photos I’ve captured of their essence. 

If you are drawn to try one for yourself, I would love feedback! Feel free to give me feedback either way. 

Happy Wednesday evening, Karin 

My practice this week is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut: 

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow…”

So I will be dancing and drawing by myself to simply explore, rather than striving for any results. It feels like this would bring me closer to  my essential nature. I will make this my spiritual practice for the next week and see where it takes me.

I don’t know what it is, but when I have too much going on, my life goes into a complete time-warp and linear time ceases to exist for me. I can almost see the dimensional change. 

Today, if I had stayed in lil near time, I would be on a sailboat breeding around the Chesapeake bay. I had packed my food and special things a week ahead of time for this much needed women’s only sailing weekend, but when it came time to board the boat, I had completely forgotten that it was THE weekend I was supposed to be there. 

The upside is I have more time to relax and prepare for my upcoming art exhibits and the down side is that I feel starved of an adventure this summer! 

I know I have been out of touch with this group, and partly it is because I have too many balls in the air. Apologies for that. Nearly all of them will be completed by the end of the 2nd of October, and I will need at least a day to recover. Until then, beam me up Scotty, for I may not arrive any other way!