Living Life Fully in the Moment

You’re alive, act like it I’ll remember this meal. I watched whales from a cliffside and cooked up ingredients that were all hand made, some gifted to me from locals met (oaxacan mole), some herbs self-picked from a ranch we stayed at in the mountainside, flavors and spices I’ve grown to love along the journey. The meal itself came together like art, revealing itself when it was finished, sabor en layers. It tasted made with love, because it was, and so was the moment to create it. This is enough. Barefoot in the sand. Free in spirit and being. Taking in all the elements and making anything that feels right in the moment. We think we need the things, the fancy this and that, the purchases. I did for a long time as I sat crying for years looking out penthouse windows at views I worked too hard and paid too much for (the least being price) wondering “is this it? Why am I doing this, why doesn’t it feel enough?” What we really need is to feel alive, to love life back as much as it loves us and learn to see, hear, taste, touch, and feel how, and to love ourselves in the process of discovering this level of enough-ness (which isn’t a word in any language because us humans have never found the limit of enough to name it) We’re alive. Let’s slow down enough to act like it and suss out what that means and looks like for ourselves outside of what they told us “we should”