Sacred September

Hello, there. Welcome to a new month... well, it's already the third day of the month, but I'm just now getting around to checking in.I haven't been writing as much lately.There are, after all, so many distractions. Essays I want to read. Photos I want to upload. My daughter's incessant viewing of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox on the iPad the past few days... or her wails when I finally take it away. Emails coming in, needing replies. The Facebook.For the past few months, living in a new place and starting a new job, I've been feeling in touch with the ground, the earth, getting my foundation re-established under me. A lot of lower chakra work. You've gotta go down to go up, as they say.I have not been doing writing practice -- I have not been writing daily or with any real regularity and definitely not feeling inspired until very recently. And now I am so inspired, with so many ideas, so many plans and projects that all I can really do is sit still and sink in before attempting anything else.I have been rereading random chapters of Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. So inspiring, so common sense. The basic premise is to write as a zen practice. The #1 top writing book of all time. Or, my favorite, anyway.This is a month for gratitude, change, work, transformation, stillness, movement... Happy September!p.s. What do you think of the new yogafreedom site design?