Saturday, March 10, 2007

choice & light

!!! finally:
i've got my hands on healing with whole foods. if you are even remotely interested in nutrition and your body in relation to food, get this book. it's an amazing well of information, education, inspiration and i'm only on page 12. i was telling my friend lauren today that this book will change my life. and then i said no, i am going to change my life and use this book as an excuse. so if you want to make a change, or even educate yourself on the truth behind the standard american diet, freaking read this.
life is moving along, getting warmer. it was warm enough today to walk around the house in short sleeves and bike over to west philly for a ping-pong match and then a flower show with said lauren. all sans heavy winter coat. i moved into my new house in fishtown february 28th. we have plans for a garden in our backyard (a luxury in the city) and a housewarming dance party on tuesday. i haven't really thought about it a lot, but living on your own is so much fun. philadelphia is my first real all-by-myself life-living, but with friends as family, these things don't really scare me. and what family i have! i am always so floored and blessed by the people that end up in my life. lauren especially, i couldn't ask for a more inspiring, freeing friendship. i have been keeping in the church (people & philosophies alike) to keep my mind challenged in a deeper way. it's still very much a huge hesitancy in my life, the whole jesus jam. but i think i've made that clear on here. l & i went to a guided meditation meeting at the friends center the other night. i came out of it with the prompt 'say yes to the light'. and i've been learning that whatever the name or color or shape of truth, i need to intend and act toward that. that's all i know. learning life still. inch by inch, learning trying to do art and take photographs and love people and give freely and trust the light. it's a choice, everything. and each choice is a miniature forever. that takes a lot of guts and integrity and sometimes blood. guts and blood guts and blood! woah, man, life. life!

3 comments:

Béthany said...

no, i am the blessed one. because i wouldn't be so here if i didn't have you. and how come we have all these depths that we have to hold, forever, alone? no, no, no. we have each other.

i feel so much bigger from knowing you. i understand more about how to love, how to own everything, how to be emotional public property. and there is still so much to travel. our two lives are so foreign. they have nothing to do with what you and i are. they could be included, of course, but they are so marginal. i'm looking forward to being included, but really, we are always overlapping beings, no matter where we are. bye, friend.

jacquie said...

i got the book too. lets read together.

jacquie said...

hah. oh you. i am going to a black sabbath concert tonight so you never know what might go on there.

ps. my housewarming party is march24, 9pm. apt 14 10757 83 avenue. edmonton, ab t6e 2e5 . the old brick building behind tops liquor store. mine is the main floor apt, left side. its a potluck.