Formspring Friday | Volume 1

Ok, so this isn’t posted on Friday, but you’ll forgive me as the video was shot on Friday, and I didn’t get a chance to edit it until the weekend.  Alas – in this video, I answered these two questions:

1. You travel a lot, but moving to a whole new place seems to be a different beast- is there anything about moving to Boulder that has surprised you? What has been the best discovery and most unexpected thing about the move for you?
2. Of what and where are your tattoos?

A couple of notes on the video:

• I say “um” too much, so here’s hoping that gets eliminated with some practice.
• I should probably talk more slowly.
• I kind of said Boulder was half tech, half yoga.  There’s actually a ton of overlap, as people here have a know how to balance and know how to rock that work/play thing.  I just feel fortunate enough to be tapped into two great communities that nurture my strongest loves.
• The Hebrew word for the “Jesus fish,” as I described it is Ichthys and deserves a bit more of an explanation than I offered in the video.  I got the tattoo when I was 19, and as I was nervous about my first permanent inking, I wanted something that no matter what I believed as I grew older, would be a testament to how I got there.  I was pretty much raised in a Southern Baptist church – active, attending a few times a week, engaged in youth group, all of it.  I’ve since opened my worldview to be much more The Universe and karma and such, and much less “Thou shalt not,” but it’s absolutely an influential part of how I grew up and into this woman I am today, and I am forever grateful for that love and structure that surrounded my childhood (and now grateful for the love and openness that surrounds me now).  :)
• When I mentioned my third tattoo, I mentioned Nicole.  That’s Nicole, of Nicole is Better, and she shares the infinity symbol on her opposite wrist.  See?

• Satya – “Truth” – means so, so much to me and was inked on my wrist after a time where I was fiercely challenged to define and defend what my personal truth was – we all go through that at some point, right?  Honoring who I am, how I relate to people and my world, and what I stand for – this was defined in the last couple of years, challenged, and then ultimately strengthened beyond belief..  Satya is truth, at it’s deepest level – to me anyway.
• The lighting in this video was absolutely perfect, wasn’t it?  We (BF and I) filmed this outside early (around 7AM) one overcast morning here in Boulder, and I love the softness of all of it.

Answers to the other formspring questions that were submitted are answered here!  Thanks for taking the time to do that – I loved the submissions and am now taking new ones for Friday’s blog post.  Ask me anything here or check out the widget in my sidebar.  Enjoy!

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