Tapestry :: We are so quickly creeping right through January, but I’d like to take a moment and reflect on 2014. I know I’m a little tardy for this kind of reflection, but it’s okay. I’m tardy for all kinds of things – my Christmas tree is still up! Shall we talk about the highlights or maybe the lowlights or maybe the meaningful?

At yoga the other week – the very first class of 2015 –  we did an interesting thing. Yoga is always, always and always about being present. To use some yoga lingo, it’s about connecting to the now, paying attention to your breath, the moment, and letting yourself just be.

And so, I was a bit shocked while laying on my yoga mat at the beginning of class to hear the instructor ask us to reflect on the past year and try and remember some of the good, fun, joyful moments.  And then she made an interesting analogy: The Tapestry Of Our Lives.  She described life as a tapestry that is made up of all our life experiences and sometimes things or relationships happen and maybe they don’t make sense at the time or they hurt a lot or seem like the wrong color thread for our tapestry, but as life happens and the tapestry continues to be woven – the colors work themselves out and things make sense.  And even that hot pink streak fits or the dark brown section has its place.

I liked the analogy.

Here’s a list of things that happened this year. Things that should be remembered and things that added all kinds of colors to my tapestry.

Saying goodbye to grandma

Outdoor dinner parties

Rockclimbing in Mexico

Brother moved to Seattle

Therapy

I painted the ceiling in my room and found an awesome door to hang on the wall in my living room.

Flipping off that favorite dock of mine on Lake Washington with Mitch and our noodles

All 4 siblings visiting Seattle

Watching my mom put her mom into the ground in Iowa

Camping on Lopez Island with Grasela and the girls

Two visits to Austin

Philip

The list could go on and on really, so much happens in a year – (ya know, I was a pineapple for Halloween and spent time in New York and Montana and all sorts of  fun people visited me in Seattle and I wore a jumpsuit). But, the above is what surfaced most quickly when I thought through both the good and meaningful moments from the past year.

It’s a good list.