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feeling blessed to be back out w-i-d-e heeding t

feeling blessed to be back
out w-i-d-e
heeding the call to Roam

A mighty good morning at the Turkish Stairs in Agrigento, Sicily.

Sicilian sunsets lay on the flirt HEAVY. What a t

Sicilian sunsets lay on the flirt HEAVY. What a tart. ❤️😊

Captured by @joshcaple at @danenasicily

Precious days of pausing with beautiful humans at

Precious days of pausing with beautiful humans at the Sicily Retreat.

MEDICINE

“In any moment of our lives, there exists a wonderful possibility: to take a sacred pause. To stop running toward the next moment and become truly fascinated with this one. To drop out of the complex and compelling narrative of our lives, the dramatic story of “Me, Myself, and I” that exists in memory and imagination and dances those strange and distant worlds called Past and Future, places we hear so much about but can never actually touch. And instead, to invite a curious attention into our real-time, moment-by-moment, embodied physical experience. For just a moment, can we stop thinking about our lives and instead find the courage to actually inhabit them? Can we begin to feel our feet on the ground? Notice what’s happening in our thinking? Sense our bodies instead of running away from them into addictive, distracting behavior? Hear all the sounds happening around us? A bird singing. The buzz of the refrigerator. An airplane in the distance. Feel a fluttery sensation in the belly, a tightness in the throat, a pressure between the eyes? This is true meditation: not trying to enter into some altered state but finding the courage to live—to hear with fresh ears, see with unprejudiced eyes, taste the moment as if it were the first and only one in existence. And then, underneath the cacophony of our lives, perhaps we can touch that sacred place that has remained unchanged since we were born. Being itself. Our own presence. This awesome, inexplicable sense of being alive.”
Jeff Foster

Photos by my love @joshcaple

The most epic Italian Farmhouse @danenasicily

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Sweet allowance. @wetheurban #recovery #sobery

Sweet allowance.

@wetheurban

#recovery #soberyogi #wedorecovery #sobrietyquotes

I ate a prickly pear this morning and true to it’s name, it prickled hands & my mouth & I’m still pulling out minuscule half hair width spikes. While stubbornly I still ate the fierce juicy little thing despite us sharp protests, I have a reconsidered strategy next time. Im certain most prickly pear predators have likely long but learned their lesson.

So touche you luscious nectar nugget.
I see you and your defense mechanisms as I have and harbor my own - also evolved over time, trained and fitted just right.

My strategies are less for getting eaten literally and more metaphorically. My armor has been built to keep away the dreaded feelings that I don’t want to feel. While brilliant tactics in the short term, they backfire in causing separation which was the motivation for them in the first place!

I’ve went a large majority sized chunk of my life not knowing they were there, quietly dictating my world, but now, I can see their little spikes and feel them employed at the slightest sense of danger.

Little by little I’m doing with out them. The long & drawn out, vulnerable withdrawal of outdated defenses. Me, a prickly pear learning to be out in the world, not without armor at all, but with a more appropriate usage of protection.
With a discerning defense.

Because if we really want to be loved, we’ve got to shake off our thorns so we can share our nectar. I wonder if the prickly pears here in Sicily really just want a cuddle. Maybe I will try again.

#sicily #lessons #soberyogi #pricklypear

I truly feel a different shade of me comes alive i

I truly feel a different shade of me comes alive in each place I roam. Currently reflecting shades in Sicily and absolutely delighted by it.

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