Splendeur Caisse

Thanksgiving is almost here! Where have these last few weeks of the year gone? Tonight I start all the meal prep for tomorrow and slow baking the turkey. Yum! There are plenty of things I'm feeling grateful this year. I intend to find a warmly lit corner to curl into and create a few Mandalas especially to express the wholeness I'm feeling. I have a few ideas swirling about as well, that I need to sit with and decide how to move forward with. Intention was/is my word for the year and I'm feeling like it is finally coming into play now. Lighting candles now. xo Alicia

It was the word that I chose out of a deck of Oracle Cards from Doreen Virtue . I'm thinking its a pretty good one too. The dictionary says it means: the thing you plan to do or achieve: an aim or a purpose . So I'm planning on having an intention behind my actions this year but I'm also going into this with an open mind, so that I don't limit myself to it's literal interpretation. Last year's word was Emerge. And I took it as getting out more, cause I was becoming a bit of a hermit. So I said yes to more outings than I had the year before, when really the word took on a much different meaning for me. Feeling and fears that I hadn't even known I was suppressing began to surface. I was able to face these feelings/fears and take them on. It took me by surprise it realize how much I had been holding myself back. So I was able to learn and grow from this. Working out also helped a stronger body emerge. I feel stronger than ever before both physically and...