a question and an answer
(just one answer but a gorgeous palette of many answers)
for all seasons and all days
Naturalist Annie Dillard once wrote, “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
One of our largest life-questions, then, is, how are we spending our days?
And within that lies another question even more vibrant: how do we love our days?
Not merely live them or spend them, but love them? Moment by moment, day by day?
Especially, how do we love days which are painful or difficult? Whether the pain of such days is physical, emotional, psychological, or existential; whether the grief we are carrying is our own or that of someone we care for, how can we possibly love it?
Yet how can we not?
When you need to up your emotional and spiritual immune system with a little love RIGHT NOW, despite your current situation… when fear and despair are disempowering you and you need a little mojo back ASAP… when you wonder how can you stand up and fight against what’s wrong (when so very much is seriously wrong), yet still stay affirmative, active, and with at least a modicum of steadying personal happiness, peace, and calm for yourself — listen and watch CD’s quick and energizing “How Do You Love Your Life?” class right now.
includes 35 minute video.
When you are ready to go deeper with this question, and spend some time discovering how to love your life with CD and your fellow sojourners…
The Valentine’s Day “How Do You Love Your Days?” LIVE class, Self-Love 101, Valentine’s Day Edition: Sunday, February 9, 2020, 2:00 pm central.
How do we love our days? How do we love other people? How do we find someone to love? Can we become more lovable — that is, able to love?
It all starts with self-love: getting on good terms with the one person who (for better and for worse) is with us until death do us part: ourself. Without self love — the tender self-acceptance and compassion (towards even the more repellent things that may reside within us), kind amusement at even our own foibles — without this, we have little chance of giving and/or receiving love from someone else.
And it’s hard to love our days without loving ourselves: because we are the ones walking through those days.
Valentine’s Day is our culture’s celebration of coupled love, sweetheart love, just-the-two-of-us love. But none of us can give away something we don’t yet have.
You will have access to a pre-teach video immediately after purchase (watch as many times as you like), and reserve your place for a class which builds on it, yet goes deep into dismantling once and for all the near-omnipresent voice of “Radio Station KRAP”, which continually tells us we’re too fat, too young, too old, too inexperienced, too overqualified, too audacious, too timid, too demanding, too passive, and on and on. What if we turned out to be gorgeous, smart, funny and truly lovable once we took off our “too-toos”? How can we learn to cultivate self-care, self-acceptance, self-respect?
As we explore this together, we will see how far from being selfish or egotistical, the conscious development of self-love fertilizes and prepares the inner soil for the love of others. With Crescent’s insight and her approach, built on the potent idea of “relentless incrementalism”, your steps — be they baby-steps or gigantic strides — will get you have you loving your days, and yourself in those days.
Whether you are single, happily or unhappily partnered, widowed, divorced, or between partners/lovers, wildly insecure or just a tad-bit arrogant, Self-Love 101 is a rollicking, soul-soothing class and discussion … a valentine you can send yourself and a proposal to which you will want to say yes.
The Spring Equinox “How Do You Love Your Days?” LIVE class, Reinvention Edition: Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm Central
Do I have to start over yet again?
Yes. Life is continually reinvention, like it or not. But if you don’t like it, loving your days is going to be pretty rough.
You will have access to a preteach video immediately after purchase (watch as many times as you like), and reserve your place for a class which builds on it, yet with a focus on the eternal questions of reinvention, regeneration, and beginning again. Get re-energized in this class with Crescent and your fellow life sojourners… an hour’s insight, filled with ongoing never-fail methods of respite.
The Summer Solstice “How Do You Love Your Days?” LIVE class, Steadiness Edition: Sunday, June 21, 2020, at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm Central
You will have access to a pre-teach video immediately after purchase (watch as many times as you like), and reserve your place for a class which builds on it, yet focuses on working with life’s extremes.
How do we integrate high points with low, major transitions with day to day to changes? And how do we deal with the blah times, when all seems frozen and nothing is moving?
How do we go about finding equipoise and steadiness throughout what life (and the seasons of our individual lives) ask of us, moment by moment and day by day? Find out in this class with Crescent and your fellow life sojourners… an hour’s insight, filled with ongoing never-fail methods of respite.
The Fall Equinox “How Do You Love Your Days?” LIVE class, Harvest Edition: Sunday, September 20, 2020, at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm Central
You will have access to a pre-teach video immediately after purchase (watch as many times as you like) and reserve your place for a class which builds on its basic truths, yet focuses on harvesting.
Life happens, including the unfair, unpredictable, and sometimes tragic occurrences, as well as their opposites. Can we love our days in more dire times, when it is all we can do to get through them? How do we make use of, and find solace in even the most dreadful or difficult experiences of our lives?
The passage of time is inherent in harvest (we planted, sowed, weeded and cultivated, and now, here are the pumpkins and apples). But despite this, the passage of time does not always feel helpful.
How can we use time in coming to grips with harvesting our lives’ experiences? How do we look 
to the past, plan for and anticipate (or dread) the future, and yet “be here now”, finding ways to love our days? Ask some big questions, and find some answers (both large and small) right here.
This class with Crescent and your fellow life sojourners… an hour’s insight, filled with connection and ongoing, never-fail methods of respite.
The Winter Solstice “How Do You Love Your Days?” LIVE class, Holiday Edition: Sunday, December 20, 2020, at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm Central
You will have access to a pre-teach video immediately after purchase (watch as many times as you like) and reserve your place for a class which builds on its basic truths, yet focuses on using this busiest and most contradictory time of year to grow a little inner and outer peace and understanding.
It’s a time when the basic cycles of light and dark would seem to incline us towards the quiet, the inward-going and contemplative. Yet for many of us our social schedules are as packed as our family obligations.
For some the hectic nature is happy; for some stressful. The pressure for gaiety, cheer, and consumption of food and drink and stuff mounts… yet it’s a time when many are called to think about spiritual matters, and still others — those who are mourning the loss of loved ones with whom they previously spent holidays — are ripped open by grief.
No matter how you do or don’t celebrate the holidays, whether this year’s are in line with your long-standing traditions or your exploring the creation of new ways forward, taking a few moments out in this class with Crescent and your fellow life sojourners… an hour’s insight, filled with ongoing never-fail methods of respite that will help shape your New Year as we move back into the light.
