Year 2 of the Green Gray and Grace initiative wraps up today, and Year 3 begins. This year has been full of transitions and do-overs and inches and inches of movement towards a greener and more graceful life. The Gray always pretty much takes care of itself. The Green and the Grace and I are duking it out every day, year after year. It's a long but oh so good battle.
I've been feeling a bit sheepish that I don't have so much to "show" for this year. It has been tough to find as much time to write and to try projects and to cook as I would like, and I haven't earned any Gold Stars for discipline and self control. But even if everything didn't exactly go as planned, I have definitely learned a lot. Learned a lot, still a lot of room to grow.
Since last February, I:
- Tried to grow a container garden. Getting started. Getting excited. Crushed by Reality.
- Started to embrace the fact that my quality of life is significantly better when I keep a grain-free diet.
- Attempted to massively overhaul my eating habits to focus on simplicity and abundance. And failed miserably.
- Adopted some *slightly* crunchy, but satisfyingly simple Green personal care habits.
- Wrote the "Why I do not eat meat" post that had been making me unreasonably anxious.
- Thought I would hate but learned to LOVE keeping a Sabbath on (most) Sundays.
- Wrote this post about grieving that turned out to be the most viewed and most shared thing I've ever written.
And I got a fun new bob haircut to show off my gray:
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| I'm ashamed of how many camera phone self portraits I took to get ONE that I didn't totally hate. |
Ok, so what's next?
I'm not entirely sure. I'm hopeful that I'll have more time to do the things that I love this year than I had last year, so hopefully more cooking, crafting, making, writing. And HOPEFULLY I'll actually take a photography class so that my blog photos can actually resemble something artful rather than embarrassing snapshots in our poorly-lit kitchen.
God and I will keep wrestling with the ways in which my desires to live more simply and graciously and abundantly only get as far as my head.
My hair will just keep getting more awesome.
That's all fine, but, what about loving others?
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