The saccharine sensation of this life.

Straight, No Chaser is an album by Thelonious Monk, released in 1967. The album was reissued on CD in 1996, including restored versions of previously abridge...

Trust the wisdom of your bones, the truth that lives in the very center of the marrow of you. This is what it looks like to unravel and undo, so that you can re-create you for the first time again and again and again. 

This is what it looks like to walk towards freedom. 

Again and again and again. 

It is not any one thing that always leads me back.  It is all of them, And none of them. 

Together.

It’s the talks with friends, the time by myself. Healthful eating, mindful moments of stillness, therapy appointments, moving energy through my body, and remembering my body likes long hugs and coconut oil slathered on it. It’s the moments of slumped shoulders in public, too many hours of shows I‘ve watched before, the food I know my body doesn’t love but my emotions do, nights where my brain and body rouse at 3am, days where my only conversations are with my dog. Late night solo beach walks and weekend frolics with sweet friends.

Its not any one thing that leads me back to me.  and I am grateful, 

For all of it. 

Returning- again and again and again- to that sensation of slow slithering, sweetly suspending along the sinews of my spirit, sprawling up my spine and out through the sparkle of my eye.

I am grateful , for all of it. 

The saccharine sensation of this life dripping languidly from the soft curve of my soul,

Sliding down into the moontides of my heart, slipping from the corner of my smirk,

As I take another slow sip of this effervescent life.