{"id":2071,"date":"2015-06-28T20:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2015-06-28T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:41:54","slug":"lifes-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/28\/lifes-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Communing<\/a>

I made this last weekend during my Encaustic collage workshop. Sandwiching papers, silk organza and spray paint between layers of encaustic wax.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Life is a complicated thing – when some things are revealed others are hidden.\u00a0 We are never in a place where we can see, feel, know, understand it all.\u00a0 I am no exception, the future is unclear, the past is up for interpretation, and NOW, well now<\/em> can seem like so much fog – tangible and real but not meant to be held or contained.\u00a0 In an effort to be more in the now I’ve taken on a few personal challenges.\u00a0 These are tidbits of advice gleaned from a facebook posts here and podcast there – no guru formula – just my own way of sorting my priorities – my own daily check list of things to make my life more grounded in today, to keep my body, mind and soul healthy.\u00a0 Last fall my husband and I started an early morning exercise regime that I have been mostly faithful to along with some diet changes.\u00a0 Those have been good for my body and now I’m ready to take my daily commitment to the next layer- mind and soul.\u00a0 I’m trying to make a meditation practice happen, a friend was visiting recently and asked if I walked that labyrinth here at the Ranch regularly- the answer was no but then I thought why not?\u00a0 So last week after exercising I walked over and took my shoes off and slowly walked to the center and out again- aware of the path on my bare feet, the breeze, the birds it was lovely, a simple passage to NOW.\u00a0 My other new daily resolution is to commit a random act of kindness at least once a day.\u00a0 These are simple things, holding a door, offering to take someones shopping cart to the holding pen in the parking lot, holding a women’s bike while she wrestles her child into the baby seat …. what ever it might be it forces me to be aware of the moment to be enough in the now to respond to what is around me and to offer the simple kindness of noticing, helping.<\/p>\n

Here is my little list that I am trying to do most<\/em> days:<\/p>\n