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Akasha Gloria Hull, Soul Talk (via bellahugo)
Have you looked in the greenhouse lately? Susanne Ussing
bloody gorgeous.
you appeared like a mystical
version of myself in the mirror:
articulate, frayed, vulnerable,
difficult to equate with anything
you dared to take to talk to give of
your intellect in your dresses, daring, compulsively creating.
a reminder.
i remember:
all the take-back not good enough inignificance
and apologizing i've let myself become
immediately known almost
instantaneously recognized
she hovered over my shoulder
certain of what i couldn't see
alice, you gave offering
alice, you made sacrifice
alice, you are indeed a poem to me.
Pascale Boucicaut and Lamar Bailey Karamañites built Yemanja, an island retreat along the Caribbean coast of Panama. Nestled among clear, tropic-blue waves on white sand with a breeze that’s locally prized, Yemanja is the perfect antidote to city life—and the realization of two lifelong dreams.
1. You are capable of so much more than you think. Whenever there’s a lot to do, and it overwhelms you, just make a list and begin. As long as you keep going, everything will get done.
2. People are just people. The more folks you interact with from different places and with different stories, the less foreign it all feels, and the more you relate. When it comes down to it, everyone likes a simple cocktail. And good, honest conversation. It’s those moments when you realize that we’re all kind of the same.
3. You don’t have to be a capitalist to be an entrepreneur. Make room for the atypical by choosing to do things atypically. Business doesn’t have to make you rich. Sometimes, you get rich when a cool idea yields just enough to bankroll an interesting life.
4. Everyone’s got talents. Barter! It’s the pro-ideas, pro-people economy.
5. If you have a wild idea that you want to work towards, start by telling people that you’re going to do it. Call on the people in your life who push you and believe in you to keep you focused and cheer you on. By telling our friends and family that we were serious, we felt accountable.
Watch the Yemanja story at Dark Rye. But only if you’re down with tropical Panamanian beaches.
can't wait to retreat with these women.
New York: a crash course in differentiating
want from need,
expectation from desire,
Self from selfie.
New York, every inch of space full
of something interesting, beautiful, shocking,
harsh and dense.
So I found myself retreating
in a way, barricaded inside myself
to feel some sense of steadiness, achieved
at times. Here has so much
space, so much left to be desired
really, from the moment I stepped off the plane,
I felt my heart unfurling in my chest
a clenched fist, bloodied and victorious,
reaching out, an expression of the curious reach
to move, to be moved, to hold and to be held.
in pursuit of myself, creating a blurred image in my wake
pulled apart.
Here I sense I'm moving back to myself,
back to a strange container where
everything is given so much space.
Bereft of natural beauty,
weather, sidewalks, architecture,
the space gives room for smiles between us
begs that we push out into it,
fill it up, settle in.
A genuine seeker never knows what will be found, but sets out to see what's out there anyway. As yogis, we set out to see what's in there- what's inside me when I turn off the looking-outward-making-comparisons-constant-stream-of-interruption switch?
What's in there?
They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure, but perhaps it can also be said that your own trash is your own treasure. In the astonishingly damp depths of yourself lives something rich and essential, though not always pleasant. In fact, sometimes it feels like shit to go there, but without shit, nothing would grow. Fertilizing a garden is not the same process as taking a shit in the middle of the street, so let's be clear: there's an intention required to initiate and sustain growth; which is why breath, why bandha, why drishti and alignment and form. And then a surrender to the current conditions. With care, with time, all is coming.
