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It has been a long time since I last attempted to blog but now I feel I have a different purpose and an actual reason to blog. The past several months have been interesting and I have started changing in ways I never expected. I guess part of that is simply that I am growing older and my priorities are changing. I am aware now more than ever of how short life is and how I don’t want to wake up some time down the road and feel like I didn’t make it as interesting and full as I could.

I have been thinking about how I want to improve my life and start living the values I have held inside of me for some time now and the first step was to stop eating meat and to start challenging myself to make choices that were sustainable and beneficial for everyone. John and I joined the local food coop Good Foods and have started trying to eat more organically and buy local when we can. We also bought our first canvas shopping bags and started using those as often as we can. We still sometimes forget to take them with us but we are working on that! Today, we actually made our own washing detergent from a recipe that I found here. I’ll let you know how well it works soon.

On another note, I am slowly turning into a yoga nut. I just started taking classes at a local yoga studio and I love it. I have done the yoga classes at my gym from time to time but they are nothing like this. They mainly focused on stretching and the body. The classes I am taking now are about mind and body and I always leave them feeling more relaxed, less stressed and like I have had a brief chat with my inner critical self and we have come to terms with our differences for the moment. It is such a supportive, loving environment and I can’t get enough of it.

Finally, spring is here and I feel energized and ready to see what else I can learn about myself. It has been an interesting year so far and I’m going to make sure that it gets even better. Here is to the journey that lies ahead and all the growth that is yet to come!

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