Christina Rosalie

Posts from the “Musings” Category

5 things to feed your creative soul this weekend:

Posted on April 5, 2013

1. Claim an hour for white space. For doing nothing. For thinking. For Writing or doodling or daydreaming. 2. When you first roll over and wake up, write down the first five things that come to mind. No judgement, no editing. 3. Pick something to look for: a word, a color, an object. Record every instance, and notice how many ways simply paying attention attracts what you are looking for. 4. Have a second cup of coffee + linger, reading. (Feedly is my new favorite app for subscribing to RSS feeds. REWORK is the book I’m in the middle of that I most want to finish.) 5. Take a self portrait, shamelessly, gleefully, shyly. It doesn’t matters. What matters is looking yourself in the…

Categories: Musings

Resistance to change, creative habits, and Sprout is growing up

Posted on March 29, 2013

It’s taken us too long, really, to be firm. To take a stand. To say enough’s enough. But to be honest, we were resistant to making the change because we were both a little afraid of what taking it away might mean for the balance in our lives. We pictured bedtimes of wailing, naptimes gone, perpetual whining in between for a week. He’s that kind of kid: stubborn when he wants to be. Also, he has unbelievable eyelashes and the biggest, widest eyes. Unlike his big brother, Sprout totally loved his pacifier as a baby. It was a great self soothing mechanism, which, while he was small made all the difference in lulling him easily to sleep. But somehow he’s not small anymore. He’s…

Categories: Creative Process, Motherhood + Mindfulness, Musings, Sprout, The way I operate

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Why productivity is not enough

Posted on March 7, 2013

The roads are muddy now; one day ice, the next day thaw. The sun can’t make up it’s mind. It shows up in the morning all glowy and bright, and then the day turns fierce and raw, with flurries in our faces. The beginning of March is the time when things appear to be standing still at the surface, but underneath the mud is thawing and sap running, and it seems right on time, this shift. I’m reeling still, coming off of what has more or less been a four year sprint: a baby, a book, graduate school, a job, and now this, whatever this is. I’ve been thinking a lot about standing still. About really giving pause. I’m not sure when the last…

Categories: Creative Process, Musings, Photos

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Things to enjoy + take note of this week:

Posted on February 13, 2013

          The tomboy-chic look of A Well Traveled Woman Ah-ha moments of realness and couragethat happen with new motherhood. The rooms in Michael Graydon’s world. My friend Steve will be on This American Life soon. That’s pretty cool.I love going through the TAL archives. A project with my friend Willow I are doing: 35 Words + an image every day for the year. A way to take notes in the shower. Really, what more is there to say about the genius of this? The talented artisans from a favorite cafe of mine here in Vermont are featured on The Selby this week. So love that. I have an artist crush on Oliver Jeffers. Also, his studio is pretty rad. The…

Categories: Musings