thirty-8.

1. Being greeted by dawn. I have the most amazing view of the sunrise from my bed...large gorgeous east-facing windows give me a few of the sun coming up from behind the mountain each day.

2. Purging. I did a pretty decent purge before my travels, but after a year on the road you learn to live with so little & I am grateful to bring that experience into the process of paring my belongings down even more. Releasing, releasing, releasing. It makes me feel so much lighter!

3. Not settling. I temporarily found myself in joyless housing & work situations, which reminded me I don't need to settle - ever! The amazing things I want really are out there & do come to me when I allow them in. I choose to return to movement, continuing to seek what I want & not stopping til I find it. When I live this way, my life is full the most magical experiences - it's time to return to it & discard everything that is not in alignment with that I choose to create. So I gave notice that I'm moving out & am shifting work things as well.

4. Palo Santo for cleansing the energies in my room & helping me create a safe haven where clarity always comes and my prayers are always answered.

5. The Abounding River. I've picked the 42-Day Cafe Gratitude Abounding River practice up again and already so much is shifting. This work takes you deep into abundance and love!

6. Joanna. My Memphis belle saved me from a weird couchsurfing situation when I was traveling in Memphis (I chose to call her instead of settling for staying where I was) & we are still so closely in touch, and she's decided to be my partner for the 42-day Abounding River process. Yay!

7. Daily medication & prayer is the best medicine ever.

8. Betty is the best rockstar car ever. Cross-country 3 times, Burning Man twice & just a huge comfort for me through so many things. Yes, I love my car. And she loves me too.

9. The messages in the cards. Everything has been super spot on the last few readings I've gotten from any of the Doreen Virtue Decks - messages about doing healing work, how to heal financial blocks & shift things. And I keep getting the soulmate & twin flame cards from different people using different decks. Fun.

10. Gabe for giving me one especially lovely reading about manifesting the tuition money for herb school. So many things I needed to hear to heal things & take control of the situation. Stepping into my power!

11. Rumi for always having the words that my heart needs to hear.

12. Hafiz. Ditto.

13. Halloween is the best holiday ever. So excited for this years Ecstatic Dance event. The abundance of conscious, sober dance events in the Bay Area astounds me.

14. The Good Earth is our small town's natural foods store, but it's more like town hall. It sometimes takes 2 hours to grocery shop because you run into so many people, and I love every single minute of it!

15. Gluten-free goat mac and cheese from The Good Earth. As cooked food has found it's way back into my diet, this amazing gluten-free cheesy goodness seems to be finding it's way onto my plate a little too often. So good!

16. Vegan coconut tapioca pudding is another G'Earth item that is just too good. Yum, yum, yum.

17. Cleansing. I feel like I have a decent balance of raw & cooked, but have been eating some stuff (see above) that isn't that great for me, so I think it's time to cleanse with some raw food for a bit to elevate my vibration. Cleansing feels so good - releases so much!

18. The plant nation for feeding us, giving us medicine, cleaning our air, rooting beneath us, providing us with shelter & love.

19. Sunshine transmitting its energy into our skin, our food & everything around us. Light, light, light.

20. Sound healing and the masters of the craft. Crystal bowls, didgeridoos, gongs & the whole arsenal - woah.

21. Fiddle syncs. I've been having so many fiddle synchronicities lately - I know the time for me to buy one is oh so close. I've been scoping out the first one I want - it's calling to me. Soon it's gonna come home with me.