OPENSPACE WELLNESS

If you're pregnant, do yourself a favor and take this series of childbirth education. We won't be talking about what size food your baby currently is We get into the nitty gritty of birthing 3 Spots left in the March series

Clark Strand's HAIKU CHALLENGE: Bumblebee ~ Somewhat awkwardly the bumblebee backs his bum out of a blossom... ******** So, this is how it works. Try your hand at a haiku that includes the spring season word bumblebee. Your poem must be written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively, and should focus on a moment that you recreate for the reader rather than making a generalization or a sweeping statement about life. Stick with present tense, and be straightforward in your description. The best haiku are nearly always very simple. Have fun!!! See more

We Moms! Offering a free workshop when you sign up by 6/1. We couldn’t think of a better way to honor mothers. We hope you take us up on it

this week's gem: Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment... like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Kaitlin McGreyes and I have joined forces! As one of our clients put it, the dynamite doula duo