Recent Highlights

Inspired by my friend Jason's blog, I think I'm going to give you a few little choice morsels to chew on. Because I'm feeling guilty about how infrequently I provide a full meal, lately.

1) Body:

Yoga (Asana) Practice is going well. I realized last week that in the time that I've been here, some things have definitely shifted in me -- which is cool, because I'd been at a (not unpleasant) plateau place for quite some time, or so it felt. I'm definitely more flexible. And the effects of NOT sitting at a desk 40 hours a week have been fabulous. Combined with a lot of other things, I'm sure, I'm feeling more ease in my body than I can maybe ever remember.

Digestive Health: Ha! Yes, I'm really going to report on this. I've spent the past month kicking my ass into gear, nutritionally speaking. And it's been fabulous for me. I realized about 6 or 8 weeks into being here that my diet had kind of slipped into something that wasn't feeling good for me. I did some research and decided that I was showing several symptoms of candida overgrowth. So I cut out sugar and wheat, pretty much, along with cutting back a few other things. And started drinking kefir and kombucha (the Culture Club is a whole other story I could tell, about all the people here who are into making both kefir and kombucha, and the claims they (and I!) make). And from there I've just kept going, and right now I'm in the second week of a herbal cleanse program. And I feel great! From the outside, it looks like I've suddenly developed all this will power... but it's not that. What I've realized (again) is that change really doesn't happen until you really, honestly want it and are ready for it... and until pretty recently, I just wasn't. Who knows, maybe I'll slide back into sugar addiction... but I'm hopeful that I won't. Everything feels better, including my mood..... and the muscle pain I was feeling, that set in after a few weeks here and just WOULDN'T GO AWAY... has definitely started to go away. Hallejuah!!!

2) Spirit:

I went to "church" yesterday, at the Inner Light Ministry. I put church in quotation marks like that because it was no ordinary Easter service. The minister there -- Reverand Deborah -- is a black, lesbian, KICK-ASS preacher, and she rocks. Her teachings are universal and inclusive, and I just really got a sense that she "gets it." She spoke of Jesus, yes... but it wasn't about the Easter story and how it means that as long as we accept him as our savior, we get to go to heaven. Rather, it was about Resurrection as a continual, ongoing process for each of us. A reminder that we may be "in it [our 'stuff'], but we are not OF it."

Rock on, Reverand Deborah. Thanks for giving me the Easter message I was seeking -- the essential teachings of Jesus, stripped away from the bullshit dogmatic interpretation.

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Well, I think that's it for now. That wasn't really a few choice morsels, but oh well!