last year on this day, we took new marriage vows. today we will leave for a few nights of sinking our feet into the earth in big sur. while it is foggy this morning, i can feel the brightness of this day, of this life, of the countless blessings around me.

this has been the year that i claimed embodiment as my intention. with each passing day, i have felt myself come more deeply into wholeness. i am knowing who i am in a way more integrated and expansive. my birthday is on the winter solstice, half a year’s slowly shortening days from today. it is because of connections with my love and with friends like sas, that, i too, have learned to trust my intuition, to release the anxious and the inhibited.

and, because it is she that i will swim naked with when the sun takes it’s longest annual rest, today i will proclaim alongside her what will have transpired between now and then.

before the winter solstice i will have:

returned to a regular yoga practice.

begun earning an abundant income in exchange for offering my gifts to the world.

traveled somewhere i need to go.

completed the physical transformation toward embodying my most beautiful, radiant self.

shared my biggest dream.

continued with a daily practice of capturing what is most beautiful and connected.

prayed daily that i will know the path of action toward the greatest ease, grace, and abundance for myself and for my family.

cheers to the sun, my friends. to faith, to forgiveness, to what brings us together–our light.

once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
~Rilke

happy anniversary, my love.