Fave thing: I was really into the debrief afterwards where everyone shared their own, personal experiences of how it affected them. It was different for everyone, but also really cool to know that everyone’s experiences were all NORMAL.
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We’re getting desperate for new things to do over here,so back to the kitchen it is. My sister had recently made cashew queso dip, so I headed to her apartment (she’s on my Quaranteam) to whip up a tasty little dish.
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While I have a yoga background (200 hour YTT in Baron Baptiste style power yoga), I do NOT have a background in any sort of gymnastics (minus classes when I was 8) or circus things that one might want to have when doing acro yoga. Nevertheless, I found a beginners video on Yoga Journal that starts you out with some basic trust and testing the balance moves. It ends in a full on bow pose, so you can just watch the video to see how that goes.
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Okay so real talk: we’re all (and by all, I literally mean all humans on Planet Earth) under some sort of quarantine - self-or otherwise which means we have a LOT of time at home. This One New Thing series is about to get interesting….
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I was supposed to be in Portugal the day after I returned from Puerto Rico. But, as the universe would have it, the Coronavirus (COVID #19) outbreak had just started to really take hold in the US. The day before, 3/11, Trump instituted a travel ban on Europeans coming into the US. The day before that, some things were getting cancelled, but not many. The week before, it was just a thing happening in Italy.
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#feministphotovaycay is a retreat for feminist photographers. It’s been happening for a few years now and each year, the group goes to a really cool location for time to chat business, get away, chill, and photograph. Run by my friend and biz summit schemer Carly Romeo, it’s now a part of her new retreat business, Here Now Magic - using the internet to connect in real life: exploring the magic of being here, now.
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This past Sunday I googled “weird museums in Richmond” to see what little known place would pop up. As it turns out, there are a lot of these things around, including a hospital museum tour in Chimborazo (Churchhill). Per usual, it was one of those, “I’ve totally seen that building but never knew what it was / been inside.”
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Needles aren’t necessarily my thing, but I’m not deathly afraid of them either. I’ve gotten acupuncture before to treat a tight calf / sprained ankle situation and it helped tremendously - I could feel the needle loosening up that stiff muscle.
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On this week’s One New Thing, I died and went to fashion heaven. In Richmond (and dare I say way beyond!) Molly Virginia Made earrings are a work of art, easily recognizable in the best way, and seen on “the cool girls” everywhere, according to one workshop attendee.
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Fave thing: Learning the history behind the little stitches - especially that Sashiko means “little stabs” - I learned that first hand!
On a dark and rainy Wednesday night, I found myself at Studio Two Three, a nonprofit art space in Richmond, VA that “gives people the space, the tools, and the education to find that thing they love and make it.
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For this week’s One New Thing, I had been anxiously waiting over a month to get my free tickets via their Facebook page. I first heard about House Story in the December issue of Style Weekly - in short: House Story is a free, monthly event run by three women that takes you inside the homes of some of Richmond’s most interesting citizens - chock full of interesting things and their homes full of even more interesting stories.
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I have a coffee confession. I LOVE Starbucks. The darker the beans the better. In fact, if it tastes like rocket fuel or sludge, then you’ve made it right.
Enter: People who love coffee and want to show me a better way. Did I poke a little fun at their scale? Their $15 bag of coffee? The way they described a coffee that tastes like blueberries? You bet I did.
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