May was a busy month with a lot of commitments, a lot of social time and a lot of rushing around. By the end of the month, I felt really burned out and needed large amounts of quiet time. I took what I needed to ensure I could rebuild my energy.

This months intention was to Deep Joys: Take some time. Be still. Listen to the whispers of your soul. Hug your people. Dig deep and see what brings you deep joy.

I definitely hugged my people and spent a bunch of time being still. I had a few days of complete alone time though I didn’t spend a lot of time digging deep. But that’s ok. I spent time with my parents. I went to Boston and I did a lot of painting.

Here are some goals I had for May:

• continue to draw daily – finish out the 100-day project – Done
• Go back to nourish plans/list – or at least make progress – didn’t really do this I’d say
• do most of of HCOTF – also did a poor job with this in May, there was too much going on
• Jeff’s graduation in Boston – did this
• Parents here – spent a lot of time with my parents
• Support J – spent a lot of time on this, too.
• celebrate Nathaniel’s birthday party – yep was lovely.
• connect with at least 6 friends – connected with a lot of people in May
• help D and N – done
• journal – daily!
• Continue documenting the joy – daily too!
• Love my people – loved my people so so hard.
• read more, still. – i really upped my reading game in may
• Scrap and OLW – i did some of this but not a lot tbh
• Go climbing – here, too, some but not a lot lot.
• dive deeper into ease, release, equanimity, space, possibility and see what you might want to do for each. – didn’t do this one.
• figure out linode and cloud stuff for email. – i did the cloud stuff but not linode
• take care of karenika email – done
• find a class to take – done, i took a may challenge and signed up for 5 things.
• work on a daily practice of giving yourself grace – likely would get a B- on this one but working on it.
• Be ok with not getting much done, rest. – i tried to do this especially at the end of the month.

May was relatively hard for me, too. I spent a lot of time with my parents, traveled to Boston, and then socialized a lot. I was very tired and worn out about two thirds of the way and gave myself a lot of grace. It was supposed to be one of my two off months and I think it was more hectic than I would have liked. But I took some hard steps. I started taking care of myself. Doing what’s needed and I am proud of myself. I am letting myself rest.

I will continue to try take it each one day at a time and look for the joy again and again. Because I know that joy is possible in each and every moment.

Here’s to hoping June is full of joy.