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Two New Videos, Including Energy Sphere Meditation

I have two new videos to share this week, including my first meditation video that I am calling the "Energy Sphere Meditation". This technique is something that developed from my Qi Gong practice during my massage therapy school days. I consider this my foundational meditation practice, one that I use daily and that serves as the basis for my other meditations, which I will be sharing with you more as this project unfolds. This latest video can be found here . And for those of you who are curious, I have an additional video posted last week which was really more of an exercise in testing equipment. We took a road trip to Cold Springs Park, Iowa and I filmed our walk through the park from the lake near the entrance to the sandy beach of the East Nishnabotna River. Okay, maybe it wasn't the sandiest beach I've ever been to but it was still fun. I am contemplating YouTube as of late but still haven't fully decided if I want to use a more main stream platform. If I ...

Stepping WAY Out of My Comfort Zone

It's been a couple of years since my last post. Mostly I have been busy with remodeling, sewing, and other projects. I've decided to take things in a completely different direction and just recently began a new channel that I'm calling Resonate 963. You can find my introductory video here ! As is everything in life, this is a work in progress. I have been ignoring the subtle nudges from the Universe for the last 6 months to start creating mediation videos. For someone like me who likes to work behind the scenes and even anonymously, stepping in front of the camera is both painful and exhilarating. I don't think I could have taken this leap without the meditation practice I have developed over the years, and have been diving deeper into over the last twelve months. I hope you will join me on this expansive journey, follow my new channel, and perhaps try something that helps you expand as well.

A Day of Historic Preservation

Today I had the pleasure of attending the Nebraska Historic Preservation Conference, hosted in part by Restoration Exchange Omaha . Until last week, I didn't even know this event existed. Through an odd turn of events catalyzed by work, I discovered the conference and made the last minute decision to attend. Throughout the day, I gained some serious knowledge, networked with a lot of like-minded people, and had quite a blast in the process. The morning started out with Matthew and Sarah Baker Hansen who just wrote this book about...(drum roll, please)...food and culture! ...And history and buildings and grassroots businesses, but they talked a lot about their different culinary discoveries. The authors spent a year traveling through Nebraska tracking down hidden gems, including tucked-away restaurants that you would only find by getting off the interstate and exploring the small towns. This was right up my alley! I know that I haven't used this platform to talk about my l...

Intro to Carpentry, or Yes, I Went Back to Class...AGAIN

After creating the cabinet boxes for my kitchen last year, I was inspired to do more. I have worked with wood before, but for some reason this time, the whole process really resonated with me. The smell of the sawdust after making a fresh cut, the sound of the hand planer as it takes thin curls off of the surface, the feel of the wood once it's been sanded and finished...it just made me smile and gave me a deep sense of satisfaction. In addition, I found myself relaxing for the first time that I can remember in decades. My mind went quiet every time I started working, which was pretty amazing to me. I had been so stressed at my previous job for so long that my shoulders never relaxed and my mind was never truly quiet until I picked up my carpentry tools and started really working on my kitchen. After completing the two cabinet boxes, I wanted to do more which meant that I wanted to learn more. I looked around town at all of the options I could find and concluded that the most co...

New House Exterior

All of us here in the Midwest seem to have suddenly awoken on the wrong side of The Wall . Despite the extreme cold (and my irrational fear of White Walkers…I mean, they are about as real as Grumpkins and Snarks), I have managed to do a little work for the exterior of my house. Just before Christmas, I had the siding on my house replaced. I ended replacing the old aluminum siding with heavy-duty vinyl siding. I've noticed that vinyl siding seems to illicit some strong opinions on the interwebs ( here's one ). I have mixed feelings about it myself. My project manager and real estate agent both had positive things to say about it, but on the next house when I do the siding work myself, I will probably look more into wood siding and maybe even try to salvage original materials if possible. Construction is one of the biggest industries contributing to waste, and I love the ideas of keeping the carbon footprint low and saving the historical value of a structure. But I digress. H...

Bookcase Rehab

I haven't posted in a while but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on any projects. On the contrary, I have been working on several different projects and finally have one to share. When I first moved into my house, I needed bookcases but having just bought a house, I also needed to be thrifty when it came to my furniture. I ended up purchasing 3 of the cheap laminate bookcases made of pressed wood with the thick cardboard backing that's made to look like wood. Here's a before picture: I have wanted to replace these bookcases for almost as long as I have owned them but every time I thought of doing so, I couldn't just stomach the price tag. Finally, with the cardboard backing falling off AGAIN and the entire structure swaying back and forth if you touched one side or another, I decided to take action. I purchased some trim pieces and some Rust-Oleum Chalked Spray Paint in Tidal Pond from the hardware store, went home, and broke out the tools to ...