Yes, yes it's true!

I have fallen in love with Salsa dancing......Cuban style!!!!!
I'm embarrassed to say, but I've taken five classes in one week!

To Be Aware

I hear it all the time, "it is so hard to be aware." Soon everything we do seems to contribute to the oppression of someone else or the destruction of our planet. We wake up in the night, unable to sleep, worried, burdened, yearning... feeling that what we are doing right now is not enough. We send prayers, we send money, we make plans hoping that one day our space will change and through that we will change the world. And at times an even more overpowering frustration arises... we are in the middle of a chaos we have created and our lives are not what we want them to be. We see ourselves as the source of our own misery and feel unconnected to the one hand that not only created our story, but created the history of the universe. We are either idle and unable to move, or constantly restless, looking for answers, a hope, a purpose. We begin to fear the questions that we are asking and even fear our own dreams. We may even surpress our own questions with words. overwhelming. difficult. effort. unrealistic. can't. time. And then we miss what it feels like to be a child again.

I am challenging myself to be not only trusting, but patient. As I live in each moment, I desire to breath in the difficult passions that stir in my heart and be delighted with the very things that make me uncomfortable. For the second that I ignore my longings, I am embracing the lie that says my dreams can never be reached, and I miss out on what it means to grow.

Rainer Maria Rilke writes in his Letters to a Young Poet,

“...have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”