i am grateful for:

1) meeting heloise today. yes, the mastress of hints.

2) b.c. healing so well so far from knee surgery

3) giving and having it received

4) swanky hotel rooms

5) french toast made from challah

6) being walking distance from a really good target for a couple of days

7) orange socks

8) buds

9) sunshine

10) how incredibly friendly people can be outside nyc

11) room service

12) sun salutes–they’re so portable. i love that i can be sweating in my little hotel room in a fake town to an authentic practice that gets me back to my breath, pulse, and life force

i am grateful for…

1) sleep

2) the caribbean

3) dogs on the beach

4) dolphins and their ridiculously joyous present presence

5) gazing

6) grazing

7) fresh papaya

8) turquoise

9) sleeping to the sound of the actual ocean

10) cool rain in warm climes

11) growing feelings

12) joseph, the captain of “one love”

13) remembering to unpack the wet bathing suits before they completely mildew

14) yogurt

15) garlic

16) sistahs

17) lama tenzin

18) reading catalogs in bed to go to sleep

19) home

20) good omens

21) the number 3

hi y’all. fyi, my latest–an interview for beliefnet with chant master krishna das–“krishna das’s chants for love.”

here’s a snippet:

Do you feel it’s necessary to have a guru or a spiritual teacher to walk a spiritual path?

Absolutely not…. Everybody has their own guru inside, and that’s their own heart, their own being. The longing that everybody has to find that love and joy and happiness and live a good life, that longing is the guru.

You don’t have to wait for somebody to push a button for it to start. It’s already started, and you can’t make it go faster and you can’t slow it down. Everybody’s unfolding at their own rate. Sometimes a teacher will arise, and the teacher is very different than a guru. A teacher is somebody who teaches you something. A guru is a mirror that shows you the love that lives inside of you.

So, you really don’t need anything other than to try to wake up in your life right as it is now. You don’t need to wait for anybody to tell you. You already have it. It’s inside of everyone. Without that spark of love, spark of God, or spark of divinity or presence, we wouldn’t exist.

read the rest here.

i am grateful for…

1) pending vaycayshun!!!

2) souen. i swear, i could eat there every night

3) coral pink pedicures

4) that my writing buddy is going to be an author buddddddyyyyy!!!!

5) sauna-ing outside in the berkshires under a starry sky, with wind blowing the trees and then seeing a shooting star that i swear was just for me

6) lady friends

7) conversations that remind me why. just, why. why we’re here–which is to connect, to emotionally open and nuzzle and truly be with each other. and grateful that i’m blessed to have these on a regular basis with my awesome, lovely peoples

8) coziness

9) healthy toes

10) clear blue skies

11) sleeep

i am grateful for…

1) getting to see some trees and breathe fresh air soon

2) nikki’s healthy cookie recipe

3) such a rocking kirtan with kamaniya and keshavacharya das. and b.c. so lovely to whirl and swirl and groove and chant.

4) the new kd album. so good.

5) getting in touch with some serious shakti

6) this quote: “every time you judge yourself you break your own heart.” - swami kripalvananda (kripalu founder-ish)

7) healing touch

8) agent nibbles

9) the power of pinx!!!

10) liz at jiva, 7am

11) moments when you feel yourself unfolding into the next, better version of yourself. you, 9.0.

hi lovies. i’m a little overbooked these days, but the gratitude must go on. it’s amazing really, how i feel it when i don’t do these for a while. like i start to get that empty well feeling. like a low slow yowl of need starts to rouse when i forget how blessed i am. remembering that one thing is everything.

i am grateful for:

1) electricity

2) that i get to do work i love sometimes

3) feeling hopeful

4) how cancer has sort of ebbed for me lately. just the anxiety, the worrying, the death-obsessing. it’s all there, i’m sure, but maybe i’m digesting pieces of it.

5) interviewing krishna das last week–will have interview soon. yay! and he’s got a new album out today. so good, so excited.

6) going to kirtan tomorrow night with bc. here’s hoping he’s not freaked by my chant-o-rama-ram, ram, ram-ness.

7) my malas that i made, i feel like linus with them lately.

8) no tsunamis in hawaii. so so so whew.

9) headlines today about the earthquake actually having shifted the earth’s axis. because, i mean, really? and how can you worry about much when the earth just moved? we are all made of stars.

10) the orchid show is back! i love those crazy-weird patterned alien-faced, vulva-shaped, bizarro fleurs

11) noticing more and more when i am not noticing