Pictures from Wild Life Prairie Park with Alec Dejesus

July 20th-21st, 2013

Hmmm, thought today I'd try to start this up again. But what to write about!? Lately, I've been in a rut. It's isn't good and it isn't bad; it just is. It's a feeling of being stuck. Wanting to do things that you aren't doing. Feeling overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. It's a rut. And I know it will pass. And I know I just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other. 
A couple days ago I opened to the next chapter in a book of poems I'm reading. It was the perfect poem and exactly what I needed. It was called Zero Circle by Rumi.

Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
to gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
If we say we can, we’re lying.
If we say No, we don’t see it,
That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.

Since I last wrote here, the most amazing human being came into my life. His name is Alec. He's the one that gave me the poetry book I mentioned. When I look in his eyes I see his soul. And it looks a lot like mine. And it's beautiful. 

One foot in front of the other...

Love always,
Sarah

Simply Chai

 

I loooooove chai tea! I remember the first time I had it; I was transported by that taste which I'd never known to exist. This is my chai in my favorite cup this morning. I make mine with soy milk and put extra spices on top: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves (aka...Pumpkin Spice).

I make my chai by using chai tea bags. I use to use the premix liquids but they are quite pricey and one day I bought the tea bags because they were cheaper and I find that I like that method best. Make sure you squeeze your tea bag at the end because a lot of the flavor is wasted if left in your tea bag and not your tea!

Someday I might try making chai from scratch. Here's the brand of tea bag I used.

All my Love,

Sarah

Listening to: Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams

I'm Sarah and these are my memoirs

I've wished I'd have something interesting to say the first time I ever were to write in my blog. Like everything in my life, this will be a work in progress. My only true aspiration ever is to be the best me I can & I think this is the start of something miraculous.

All my love,

Sarah