The Love Found in Rootedness

It's been a long stretch of time since I've articulated and beamed out my stories and musings to all of you! Lately, my lips have been brewing poems more than they have been crafting descriptions of travels. As many of you may know, I've settled down a bit, planting myself in Berkeley, California, not far from my original home, to root and feel what it is like to allow my root ball to spread into its container. Have you ever noticed how almost everything in our lives can be correlated with a metaphor from gardening or nature? It makes so much sense when you think about it... After all, we quite literally are Nature.

Since the last time I checked into my blog space, I've planted many seeds and harvested the fruits of some of my most precious prayers. The most important of those being that I've met and connected with the most brilliant partner I could have imagined... This incredible man, Daniel Rechtschaffen, has shown up as my love, my companion, my boyfriend, my sweetie pie. Above all, he meets me where I have longed to be met for quite some time. All praise to the Highest for bringing me into alignment with this man, for listening to the sincere prayers of my tender heart, and for making sure he was so darn beautiful in every way!

So that's what I've been up to for the last few moons...

In addition, this has been a time for me to connect more deeply into my spiritual path, one which has a dynamic cluster of branching limbs, each providing me with certain tools and aids that help me grow strong and limber. Buddhism has finally taken a more prominent role in my sacred study, and I'm finding much insight and solace in the focused participation in its teachings. From it, I'm learning how to lean into my present experience, whatever it may be, and finding that when I do so, each emotion and sensation in the body is profound fertilizing juice for my evolution into who I really am. Just as rich and nourishing has been my continued walk into the teachings of indigenous peoples and Nature itself. I have some key teachers, both young and old, speaking in both English and Spanish, as well as my own heart from which I am learning step by step the ways of Life. Maybe the most important lesson I'm learning is the power of praying for that which I most love and that which most needs love... everything, really.

With all of the struggle and suffering that is happening in the world today, there are plentiful opportunities to recognize what I'm grateful for and to act upon my inspiration to create and to serve. What that exactly looks like for me in particular is in a nebulous form at the moment. In the meantime, I'm expanding my skills as a body worker and a human being, trusting that if I do this work to prepare my soil, the seeds I plant will without a doubt sprout.