Reviews
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Dispatches From Pluto Book Review + Lemuria Bookstore
Mississippi. The softly sibilant state most often spoken in the shortest span of time. When was the last time you said it without counting in the same breath? My mother’s family is from Mississippi, and for as long as I can remember in our youth we would make a yearly visit to my grandmother and cousins. First in Yazoo City, then in Jackson when my grandmother relocated after my grandfather passed away. Southern magical realism is a popular writing style – and one of my favorites. The truth is always stranger than fiction, and a tall tale doesn’t cast as long of a shadow or light as a child’s imagination playing…
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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Book Review
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Organizing and Decluttering, by Marie Kondo, came highly recommended by so many friends and I have finally finished it! My boyfriend and I moved into a house together recently, and I started yoga teacher training almost immediately afterward. We unpacked all of the boxes right away, but it happened in such a rush that I still don’t know where many of my belongings are in the house. I have this dream of floating into this perfectly organized home, knowing where everything is, and just being creative in my space. I don’t know that life will ever actually be like that, but with Marie Kondo’s…
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Big Magic Book Review
Big Magic is one of those books that sneaks up on you. Maybe, like me, you keep spying it out of the corner of your eye on Instagram, blogs, or reading lists. It makes its way on to your To Read list, but you don’t buy it right away. But the sheer volume of positive reviews escalate it from To Read to To Read Right Now. And then you are so glad that you did. The full title of the book is Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and it is written by Elizabeth Gilbert. The very same Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray Love, although this book is a different animal.…
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Yoga Teacher Training Book Reviews
Yoga Teacher Training is well under way, and my book collection is steadily growing. I’m so excited to have finally started yoga teacher training. The majority of our training comes from the Joy Yoga University manual, but these books are my best friends for the five months of yoga teacher training. I have tons of other books on yoga to dig into and share, but these are the core books for me to really focus on for now. I respond well to learning from books. Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations & Techniques By Mark Stephens Teaching Yoga feels like the primary textbook for our yoga teacher training. There’s a chapter that…
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Dream Catcher
“And open yourself to the new hopes and dreams of today.” – Journey to the Heart by Melody Beattie Our dream catcher hangs on the porch. Do you know what your dreams are doing today? It’s good to have dreams. Sometimes it’s easy to get off track or not think of them often, when you are overtaken by the day to day. Occasionally we need to take the time to say goodbye to our dreams. Dreams are precious – they keep us looking into the future. But sometimes they do die, and it can be painful to let them go. Holding on to dead dreams is self-sabotaging. Their bitter loss fills up the…
