the Universe is surely constriving in our favour today
only one day after starting to make the potassium broth soup
a neighbour came by and dropped off a bag of garden potatoes for us
what?!
until yesterday we wouldn't have even had a use for them
today they are like a gift of flowing nectar from the honey gods:)
then Estelle went out with the dogs for a walk
and she found a huge pile of fresh tree apples that someone had dumped
Dani went running out and collected them all
and now we've got at least 30 pounds of fresh apples for juicing
we were just coming to the end of our pears and needing a replacement
which too had been free
Gilbert had picked them from the ground in the Okanagan this summer
there is nothing i love more than eating food the way God intended:
free, wild, organic, ripe, local and fresh
i slept for 7 hours last night!
a deep sleep too
i awoke feeling more "normal" than i have in any recent recollection
light, clear, pain-free, alive, motivated, willing and able
i don't know what my future yet holds
but there was more hope, readiness, peace and longing for it
than i have felt in any recent time past
we have had a full week off from meditation and yoga now
first with the retreats, and then me getting so sick
the time has flown by, and all of a sudden here we are
seven days later
tonight will be our first time together again
and my body, mind and soul are so ready
to pick up on this part of the journey once again
i have a feeling of new spaciousness within me today
a feeling of deep trust in the process of life
a sense of acknowledgement for how much pressure i have put on myself
for having to know the answers, to get my life all figured out and set in motion
the reality is this:
three years ago i lost everything
every single thing i knew to be true in my life
money, home, friends, family, community, town, dog, possessions, activities, health
all of it
not one thing remained
not even my van or my bank account
i walked away from my entire life with only my beloved bike
which was then stolen one week later!
so there you go.....
i have never once doubted
that complete and utter "nothingness"
was exactly where i was supposed to be
at that time
today i am ready to find the patience within myself
to recreate my life
not based on expectations, pre-held ideas or visions, or the "easy way"
not based on who i think i should be
or who i think others think i should be
it is time to let all of that go
and find my own authentic path in this world
the path that was designed solely and perfectly just for me
the path in which I am the only single solitary human being
on the face of this entire planet
with the capacity to walk down it in these shoes
so gracefully, confidently, and intuitively
with all the exact and precise intelligence
that only exists inside of me
i made our second batch of potassium broth today
this is what i used:
10 carrots
5 potatoes
2 onions
1 beet
1/4 turnip
1/2 bunch celery
1 red pepper
3 inches of ginger
10 garlic cloves
5 bay leaves
i chopped everything up quite small, and simmered it in lots of water for 4 hours
i let it cool completely off
and then squeezed all of the liquid from the vegetables
through a nut milk straining bag
(kind of like cheese cloth if you don't have one)
this is a really delicious broth
we are feeding the strained vegetables to the dogs
and they are loving it!
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