As he said.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. [Howard Thurman]

I chose it.

Last night, I realized I found my religion. What a fabulous revelation! In a dimly-lit room, with music playing, surrounded by converts and newcomers, candles burning in the fireplace, I was struck: This is the reassurance I have been looking for. my god exists between myself, the student, and my many teachers. Moving, stretching, lifting, bending, touching and breathing with guidance, I was, for a long moment, enmeshed in the love present in the room. I have been practicing this yoga, and searching for a method to internal peace. The two came together last night, as I practiced my method, and looked toward the future with gratitude, and readiness.

Meditate

Early morning, facing the window, the room starts from dark and slowly fills with late. Squiggled up on my pink flying carpet, I settle down and chant. And my blood continues to flow, but I can feel it; the pulse is clear throughout my entire body: my back, my chest, my legs, my entire head is full of pulsing life. I recede down and in and down and in and in and in and into myself, and let my shell pulse, keeping me safe and warm.

Eat, Love, Pray #4

The child is taught from the earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collect your soul and bring you to heaven.

Eat, Love, Pray #3

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Eat, Pray, Love #2

Om Namah Shivaya.

I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Eat, Pray, Love #1

"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business--not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into...rhetoric and plot...You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."

Llegó la nieve

Y doy gracias. Algodón se cae del cielo,
y doy gracias.

Gracias.