"The Ocean of life is lavish with it's abundance. 

All my needs and desires are met before I even ask.

My good comes from everywhere and everyone and everything."

"Allow yourself to expreience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart."

Preparing for a full day of yoga workshops on the North Shore at Turtle Bay tomorrow. :) 

Hawaii Spirit Festival here I come!

Hafiz

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

-Hafiz-

cyberspace time travel

I traveled back to October 27th, 2008 today.

Rummaging through old e-mails and archives of facebook posts, I was amazed to see where time had taken me.  Some posts had me thinking- what was I even talking about? What was I going through? At the time, it must have seemed so important, and now, I'm searching through the files of my brain to find that it wasn't even important enough to be saved into my memory!  Apparently the impact of what I was feeling that day wasn't life changing.

But there are other posts and e-mails- statuses and quotes that I shared that I re-read today and was immediately transported.....reliving and remembering the details, feelings and emotions attached with that  days past.

 College graduation, My big 2-2 birthday, the Master Clean (eeek), Christmas Eve with my family at home, the first time I took my surfboard out, a guitar lesson with Johnny, a last minute Vegas trip, Seattle adventures with my cousin, mind opening yoga classes, roaming the island, confusion and revelations, a break-up, a hook-up, a fight, a building relationship and a heart of forgiveness.  

It's all right there.

In my love/hate relationship with facebook, I came to realize that the site acts like a scrapbook...keeping all the pictures, conversations, posts in one place that I can come back to every once in a while... as a reminder of how fast life moves and how much can go down in a year! 

So facebook... I guess you're not so bad. Thanks for saving my memories.... 

well at least up until 10-27-08... apparently you don't have enough space to save before that date.

Aloha kakahiaka Hawaii. 

Grind an early breakfast @Andy's in Manoa....followed by a beautiful drive through Tantalus with mi amor.

"Not all who wander are lost." 

Kanealole- Makiki 

What an early retirement in Big Sur might look like. 

Welcome to NorCal. Wetsuit required. 

Wedding Time

Leaving "home" for "home" had never been so upsetting.  I was leaving far earlier than what I was prepared for- 10 days never happened so fast. One minute we were on the Chardonnay cruise for my sisters bachorlette party and the next she is married and we are waking up to head to the airport.

side story- we get to SJ airport and while trying to check in, I realize I forgot my wallet back in Hollister. WOW- was this a sign? I really didn't want to leave! Even my subconscious was telling me something. None the less, the helpful Hawaiian Airlines attendant put me through extra security clearance and I had just enough time to scarf down a pastry before boarding the plane back to Hawaii.

In the past, I couldn't get back sooner. I would crave my routine, the weather, friends, life as I had created and perfected it. And now, here I was, wishing for more days in California- really, wishing more time with my family.  

This trip was a reminder of how beautiful a day at the California coast could be, how lovely it is to drink a pumpkin spice latte in the morning with a side of morning fog, how much I miss being out on the lake and wakeboarding (ok I don't think I ever forget that), and the beauty of being able to travel an hour north, south, east or west and be in a completely different place and setting. 

But really, this trip was a reminder that I scored in the family department. 

 I must have been a Mother Theresa type in my past life to have been given such beautiful people to love and grow with. 

And the family is expanding with the addition of Chris- even though since Day 1 it was already a done deal. :)  Couldn't be happier about him and Steph finally tying the knot!