Invited teachers include musicians, movement artists, nourishment mastery from raw to healthy solutions for mind, body and soul. We invite you to dig deep and find your flow with us this Thursday in Inner Richmond, San Francisco.
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There’s a new dance I’ve been mastering this year, one that many entrepreneurial moms and community leaders can relate to. Now sitting on the board, advising, teaching, consulting or partnering with hundreds of people and organizations the precious resource of time is stretched on a daily basis.
Mastery – and mystery – require a different dance with time, agreements, collaboration and clarity in all communications that I take on. This year on my creative plate I have two startups, two nonprofits, a handful of clients and a fair amount of inquiry, two writing projects, coursework and design of a new home. Tomorrow I produce a one hour talk show on Collaboration for the fifth month of Nonprofits Live, an interactive talk show series answering your questions on how to work together better.
Everything is moving very quickly for Be Embodied, now taking half of my work time to design through this birthing process. We have a big event coming up for solstice (more details to come) and a booth this weekend with TheHUBLA Partner Lounge where we will be hosting conversations on open source ecology, agile transformation and embodied presence in collaboration at noon each day. Join us at the LA Convention Center!
Creatively I am excited and a little exhausted. Sleep is a precious commodity along with time with my handsome husband of Toyshoppe Systems fame. He’s being battered by a bat every day while wizarding on the Dark Knight Rises, and it sounds like he’s living up to his wizard title this year and earning those white hairs of wisdom at Chris Nolan’s side. Amazing work all around us and astonishing colleagues cheering us on to do our very best work all around.
Learning to juggle this dance of being advisor, business leader, founder, creative designer, producer, friend and love is a beautiful challenge that is stretching me to become more than I imagined possible. The collective feels to be dreaming bigger now, looking ahead to a world where anything is possible, where visions come true quite quickly and the flow between us is getting much easier to surf. Communication is clear and exactly as it can be.
At the end of the day the dance is as graceful as I am available to be present, loving, on my most beautiful path in every moment. Giving and sharing what I can while giving the sweet care of a curate to myself in the process. Grateful for the role many of you have played in this growth. Thank you for your love in this process.
My friend Stacey Monk decided to use Twitter as a tool to help Mama Lucy & a community she cared about half a world away because it was something effective & simple she could do from her home. She had no idea it would evolve into building projects in multiple countries and now a Global Gratitude Parade at http://epicthanks.org/. Check it out!
Tweet out your love #epicthanks.
Over the last few months I have logged a handful of new gluten free recipes including a few chronicled via Flickr. This week the chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chip cookies and the gluten free Thanksgiving turkey stuffing were the hits, with a few lessons learned.
I am always attempting to find a better mix of flours for various baking dishes. This time for the cookies I added coconut flour, which ruined the texture of the cookies and make them more crumbly than I care for. Potato flour works well in many baked dishes along with some mix of rice, tapioca, xantham, baking powder and egg along with the healthiest oil choice you can muster. I’m working with a lot of flax, chia and raw cacao nibs to start the chocolate cookie base with enough protein and iron to make cookie eating worthwhile. Adding dark chocolate only allows these cookies to stay lower in sugar and fat and I prefer the batch where an added layer of sea salt was added topping each cookie. The mix of salt and chocolate also figures prominently in the chocolate nut cake I’ll attempt again this week as a mixed nut/brownie form that tastes like a candy bar and also features enough protein and iron to make it a healthy treat, but has almost no sugar.
The gluten free stuffing made last night with a full turkey roasted with apple and rosemary was fantastic. Two tapioca hot dog rolls & less than half a batch of homemade cornbread made the starter along with veggie broth, green onions, garlic, mushroom….we skipped the celery and most any stuffing recipe can be adapted to use a mix of gluten free cornbread leftovers and old gluten free bread. I cooked up the breading the night before and stuffed the bird with it cooking for 4 hours, then roasting in its own dish for another 20 minutes on low to get more crunch and fluff outside the bird. The turkey was also stuffed with an apple in eights which gives this recipe the perfect compliment, along with lots of rosemary and some thyme and sea salt. I used tumeric, apple cider, cumin and paprika on the turkey outer skin bastings and the apple flavor really popped through the turkey and gravy while the tumeric color makes the turkey breast really beautiful without butter! There was no dairy used at all, safe for kosher and lactose-intolerant guests.
Sorry that I have so few photos but we ate the stuffing very quickly! I will make it again at the end of this week but for now you can have a chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chip cookie. We’ve been feasting all week and I’m so grateful that we have these holiday times together with friends, family and loved ones all over the world sharing blog posts, photos and gratitude.
