What I know now.

Things I have come to realize over the last 9 weeks:

Every emotion, experience, opportunity and person has been intentionally put in my life for a reason.

It isn’t until I give up the need to produce results that I am able to create fully, intentionally and most powerfully and that discovery is a practice and will always be a thing to remember. After that, no thing stands in the way of me and creation.

The joy of sitting on the ground outside our house with Ramona is one of my greatest pleasures. Especially right now playing in the dirt, watching for bugs, waving to airlines flying by, seeing figures in the clouds and smelling flowers are particulary the grandest moments.

Having conversations on race and working towards ways in which will make a difference with Anthony is part of my life’s work.

Weeding the yard and watering our garden is a form of meditation for me.

Creating a ritual of nurturing my hair and really taking care of its roots, by way of massage and conditioning, has really offered such delight in taking showers. Aka, that whole idea of when I'm in the shower, take the shower = presence.

My work is needed and Chinese medicine is incredibly fancinating.

I always turned to the “organic” label on food as being reliable, up until recently.  Questioning where our source of nutrients comes from and how it is produced is vital and research must be done to seek out true, untreated foods. A practice I have come to deeply appreciate.

I don’t have to eat meat anymore in fear that I will be anemic again. I just have to pay attention.

Love is the only thing that is real and today is a gift and the only thing that matters and most importantly, it is my responsibility to be a responsible person; To look in the face of discomfort in order to see things as they are and to be in action around the things I do not accept whether it be for myself, my family, my community, for human rights, for animal rights or for plant rights. As Mary Oliver has been quoted saying... " Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" -- We have all been placed here to make a difference... and know that as love, in its simplest and most potent form.