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by Clare Elsaesser

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I never wanted a pool until *right now.*

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Just a little write-up about my test knit for this new pattern from Big Red Balloon.

Find it on Ravelry

Pattern: Big Red Balloon Yarn: Brooklyn Tweed

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Small things/habits to start doing in 2019 🌷

Do yoga

Meditate

Express gratitude

Read 10 pages a day

Drink green tea over coffee

Have 8-9 hours of sleep every day

Skincare

Stretch for 5-10 minutes every morning

Eat fruit over chocolate

Compliment people you admire

Be creative (in any way you want)

Hang more pictures

Take care of your plants

Take your vitamins daily

Reduce the time spent on social media

Cut off all the toxic people in your life (+ unfollow all the toxic people)

Listen to inspiring music

Relax

Don’t overwhelm yourself with tasks

Exercise 3x a week

Drink water!

Spend time with people you love

Journal

Recycle

Smile more

Be kind to yourself

Be positive

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Feel free to add on 🌚

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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

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 Lewis Carroll, 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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Details of a FarmHouse Renovation

https://www.instagram.com/our1880farmhouse

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Ordinary Love by Nadia Crétin-Léchenne on Ravelry

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Forget the #PSL. For me, the trademark of early fall is when the @lecreuset comes out of hiding and moves to it’s seasonal home on my stove. From that point until mid-May there is almost always something bubbling in that sturdy blue pot, filling our little cape with the warmth and the smells that make a home.

Orange root vegetables, warm spices, and a dollop of yogurt make for a perfectly balanced, nutrient rich soup to warm your belly and welcome the soft chill of fall.

www.jenniferprat.com/blog

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#fall #autumn #soup #foodphotography #foodstagram #homemade #newengland #ctlife #203 #fairfieldcounty #fairfieldct #recipes #soupson

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“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”

— Saint Francis of Assisi

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Knitting Pattern: Avalanche by Heidi Kirrmaier ($6.80)

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In practicing yoga, it’s important that we stay away from becoming fundamentalists. No one system has all the answers. Just do the series and you’re going to get enlightened? No, if you’re 54 years old, you’re not going to put your leg in Half Lotus and fold forward in the first 20 minutes of class. Please, that’s not a good idea. Ashtanga is a very, very demanding sequence, and very often I think people take the sequence to be more important than the fundamental yoga principles like ahimsa. The heart of ashtanga is heat, concentration, personal practice. Take these bigger guidelines of the sequence and apply them to the individual so that their practice serves them.

Maty Ezraty

(via fuckyeahyoga)

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A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it’s being boiled. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ The cook knocks him down with the ladle. ‘Don’t you try to jump out. You think I’m torturing you. I’m giving you flavor, so you can mix with spices and rice and be the lovely vitality of a human being. Remember when you drank rain in the garden. That was for this.’ Grace first. Sexual pleasure, then a boiling new life begins, and the Friend has something good to eat. Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook, ‘Boil me some more. Hit me with the skimming spoon. I can’t do this by myself. I’m like an elephant that dreams of gardens back in Hindustan and doesn’t pay attention to his driver. You’re my cook, my driver, my way into existence. I love your cooking.’ The cook says, ‘I was once like you, fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time, and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings. My animal soul grew powerful. I controlled it with practices, and boiled some more, and boiled once beyond that, and became your teacher. - Rumi

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stovetop pots de crème with olive oil and flaky salt

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There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays

The holidays are a special time to focus (literally and figuratively) on family, though I admit the Doodle was the object of most of our attention. We had a wonderful few weeks of celebration here in CT. From a Christmas Eve hike through the lake, to a day full of pajamas, food, and family, we enjoyed every moment.

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More on TheYogaMentor Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/BdWZGbjndh2/

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