Every time I attend a yoga class, I am beaming from the inside out. Literally. I spent this evening's entire class wearing a soft smile. I am lucky to have access to classes with such fine teachers, such a special assortment of beautiful souls that I find not only while on the mat, but off it as well.
I am positively surrounded by such bright compassionate friends, that I'm often taken aback at the amount of love I feel from and for them. Truly. I remember reading somewhere once that gratitude is the most medicinal emotion we can feel....isn't that beautiful? The attitude of gratitude, it even sounds joyfully contagious!
Such genuine compassion I'm feeling from my friends and family as we all go through the 'goodbyes' and 'see you sooooon's!' of excitement, encouragement, and well-wishes. They remind me that I am a charismatic, forward-thinking capable person and that I will learn so much of myself as I set my intentions for the next chapters. It feels weird to be leaving a place I have come to know so well all over again. Just when you really feel like you know what you're doing in a place, when not only are you still meeting new people, you are deepening the relationships built if not before, at least during the last year and a half. Has it only been that long? Well, in this city, though it's now 3 years almost to the month that I have returned from traveling. I keep saying it feels like I'm spending more time saying goodbyes and more time preparing for this trip than I did for a year in France....what does that mean for this trip? What will come of it? Only time will tell, and I am so open to whatever I can create with the opportunities that come my way.
Gratitude also for the friends made traveling, who call me up on skype from halfway around the world while I'm still in bed in the morning....gratitude for the wisdom I can offer and the shared laughs I remember so well from so many years ago. For me, nothing ever happens by accident and the phone call this morning, the first we've ever had in over 3 years, seemed SO poignant in my friends life, that how could we have predicted what would have come of that conversation? I feel refreshed anew to offer some encouragement to a situation that I am now learning to step out from, something I am all too familiar with feeling. And with the persistent work I am doing with close friends in my life, I am letting the light into (or out of?!) those cracks. What a journey, living the best moments of your life! Loving what you do, no matter what you're doing.
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