January | Life Lately
Today is the first full moon of 2020! If you’ve visited me here over the last few years you’re probably familiar with my full moon recaps. Each month these posts are a time to honor the full moon, check in on what we’re up to, & simply be in tune with the moon (at least that’s my hope for you).
January’s full moon poem is from the book The 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams. I highly recommend adding this book to your TBR (to be read) list if you want a deeper knowledge of the Moon and how she influences us as a People.
New Year’s 2020 | We brought in the new year & decade with some of our closest friends. They just moved into a new house so it was a celebration of big milestones all around! It was a casual affair we all needed after the holidays. Pizza, veggie trays, chips & dips, and watching the NYC special on TV with plenty of celebrities I didn’t recognize. I think that means I’m getting old. ha! Barely made it to midnight this year. It was a good reminder that some seasons are a slow welcome with little fanfare & there’s plenty of beauty in that too.
Designer at Chaco | I’ve joined the Marketing team at Chaco, an outdoor lifestyle & shoe brand. I started during the holidays with a lot of fun parties. A good way to start a new venture if you ask me! It’s very new so not much to say yet other than I really love the team & I’m excited for what’s to come. It’s inspired (yet another) wardrobe. I’m now on the hunt for all things trailwear.
Hometown visit | I try to visit my parents about once a month. Around the holidays it’s easier to see them more. They came my way for Christmas & I’m going their way soon. We’re going to catch Dad’s basketball game, Mom’s new studio downtown, & hopefully get tater tot waffles at Harless & Hugh. I’ve been CRAVING them since Mom mentioned they’re a new menu item.
Currently
Reading | This Is Marketing & Lost & Found: Legendary Lake Michigan Shipwrecks
Listening | R&B mix & The Lonely American Man, Hidden Brain podcast
Thinking | What can I do to help with the Australian wildfires? I’ve donated to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital & WIRES Wildlife Rescue so far. I feel helpless but there has to be something more I can do…
There is a lot of NEW to start this year, more than I recall ever having. It’s exciting & energizing as well as overwhelming. I feel off-balance from it all yet very grateful for it all. So many things have been serendipitous lately in ways I can’t even begin to explain. My enneagram 1 nature is challenged every day but I think it’s exactly what I needed. Sometimes what we’ve always known has to be stirred up to evolve into a grander plan. Consider me stirred! You can see all full moon posts here.
Happy Full Moon, friends! xo, Em
