life gratitude

I am grateful for:

1. my days at school starting to turn around

in a positive way this week when i brought some

prayer flags to school to work on.

 2. being inspired by my friend jeannie, who made

these peace flags for an upcoming show. they are

so colorful and luscious... felted with wool...

 3. a friday evening kirtan with satya, grace,

augie, bill and drummers... singing hare krishna

was so healing...

4. being invited to celebrate the beginning

of a life together - cograts mandy and trevor

 5. getting back into mehndi... megan's peacock

 6. doing my first ever white tara mehndi on deb's arm

 7. spending time with amar, talking about

our intense callings to go back to india... while

covering her hand with henna paste:)

 8. witnessing the joy of megan overcoming

a challenge of getting quite far up this crazy rock face

 9. the beauty that surrounded us at tohican creek

 10. gabe gracefully slinking up the mountain...

 11. getting to watch these three women fly through

the air with such a confident strength and beauty

 12. lizzy and her sweet and positive reflections on life

 13. singing the hanuman chalisa as i walked across the

river this morning. hearing its flow, feeling its pulsing movement

14. knowing that i will be living in this place again someday...

15. and for not being able to put this book down.

it is full of painful truths, sharp awareness inducing

truths... please read this book.

16. for all of the love i felt this weekend...

i am renaming this place "lovetown". 

it is filled with so much support, community

and friendship that i value and am so so so 

grateful for.