So after a reiki session with Anne-my-hero, she always has me pick a card deck and choose a card from it.  This last time I chose Medicine Cards and pulled Frog.  I also pulled it in the reverse position – it’s all about being stuck in the mud and needing to clear stuff out. 

It was bang-on considering I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately.  Here’s what I got out of it and I’m going to write my resolutions here to commit myself to doing it:

- Break your routine - The other evening, on a weekday, we’d had unseasonably warm weather and I’d been stuck in the office all day.  I went home to make dinner and all I wanted to do is go outside.  But there was this side of me thinking, no, we need to feed our kid,  it’s the official dinner hour, blah blah blah.  But I took him and went.  We walked.  We found a new trail.  We found a basketball someone had lost.  Angus was so excited about the ball he had to sleep with it that night (yeah a dirty ol’ basketball, so sue me).  We came home and ate a good dinner.  Civilization did not fall because we broke out of our schedule - it made life better. I want to more often embrace my inner barefoot yoga hippy with drapey skirts and a big fat nose ring.  Gimme more Wild Woman.  Good Girl be damned.

- Find the energy drainers – Sometimes it’s people for me but it’s also stuff.  I can have a over-revved sense of responsibility of how things need to be, and the timeframe things need to happen in.  But I want to catch myself more. I want to get lots of practice saying “who freakin’ cares!”

- Take time and space -  Repeat after me.  Time.  Space.  Not laundry. 

- Settling someone else’s quarrel -  I get stuck with this one when I feel I need to fix things for others.  Or at least offer a great suggestion. Instead I want to be able to listen to others kvetch with a bemused expression and think, wow aren’t people so interesting!  Just be endlessly fascinated. Skip the *fixing*.  Why do I think anything needs to be fixed?  Aren’t we all where we need to be, doing what we need to be doing and learning what we need to learn?  That’s alot more interesting.