Your Daily Dose of LOVE, vlog day #2, 2013

How was your first day of 2013?
Did you keep the gratitude I spoke into on the tip of your tongue?
I sure hope so.  If not, then you have plenty more opportunities to practice (364 days to be exact).

As for me, "Phew!"  Well, my 01/01/2013 kinda looked like this:

Wake early in the high desert to bathe naked in an outdoor hot tub, surrounded by patches of snow.  (YES!)   Drive west with two of my dearest soul sisters, as I rest my eyes in the backseat.
Continue cleaning and saying "goodbye" to Las Raices.
I intentionally waited until the later afternoon to hang fliers for "Connection Therapy" classes in local cafes.  It didn't matter though because, still, I heard Snake Medicine man's voice boasting about his up and coming tour.  Damn you, LOVE - you are so bittersweet.
Drop in on the New Year's Day party at Bee Medicine man's house.  Eager to show me the rough draft copy of a book he is working on, I was pleasantly surprised by his work as well as how healthy and robust he is looking and feeling.
Damn you, LOVE - you are so bittersweet.
Then, you offer me your lap, I sit and its pure sweetness.  The hand of time keeps marching on and all I can do is surrender to the Universe's commands.  "I bow down before you, oh great mystery - whatever you command, I shall do," I have literally prayed in the past.  And, c'est la vie.

I keep moving - driving north to Carlsbad, I arrive onto the doorstep of another soul sister.  I know I am exactly where I am meant to bee as the visages of three hooting owls greet my eyes from the doormat.

Sitting together in merry excitement, we share our adventures since we last saw each other.  She holds such deep space for me, and my stories.  "Damn, woman," she says, after I recount only some of the recent memories imprinted in my BodyMind.  "You are writing all of this, right?"

OF COURSE.

But, first, We DANCE.
So, we head toward our beeloved Encinitas Dance community for a first day of the year twirl around that proverbial dance floor of LIFE.

Shall we dance?  

HAPPY 2013 ~ Your Daily Dose of LOVE (Medicine) now distributed via video!

Another new year and opportunity to wipe the slate clean,
to (re)create a new YOU, a new US, a new Now -
a renewed way of bee~ing in the world.
YES!  I'll take it.

I am enthusiastically exhausted after days spent cleaning up the past,
preparing for what is to come and then running off to the high desert to ring
in 2013 under a star-studded sky where patches of snow dotted the terrain
and rock-outcroppings cut a dramatic swath.

Liberty Advance was chock-full of people for its annual new year's eve party
but, still, I remained desiring quiet, so I took what I needed
and gave very little away.  I am enjoying this shift.

That eastern land is a magical space very near and dear to my heart.
The animal medicine I experience there has been profound.
Years ago, I moved with a mountain lion - keeping myself at a safe distance from its creeping prowl,
I stalked it as it danced and played in the knee-high grass under both a setting, full moon as well as a rising sun on an autumn equinox morning.  Then, just this past August, I brought "the Anchor" up with me for an overnight getaway and, upon our departure, we witnessed a Hawk lifting up from the dirt road with a snake firmly held in its talons.  We both gasped upon seeing it.  "QUETZALCOATL!" I sang.

Last night, as Bee and I strolled along the ambling path, the still night was punctured by the howls of Coyotes.  Wild dogs, one of them had an iconic bark that ended with what sounded like a horse nay.  "They make themselves sound like they are a larger pack than they actually are," Bee shared.  "Smart," I thought.  This morning, as I wandered in solitude, I reveled in the abundance of cougar paw prints, pockmarking the trails they had hardened in the mud.  Feeling the indentations with my own fingertips, I imagined the power of the Puma flowing through me. 

NOW is the TIME.
2013.
Welcome.