Lamb Cake

I didn't stand a chance against the remainder of the lamb cake we made for Easter. Or shall I call it the lamb cake that was the most highly-discussed topic for all of Easter weekend...anyway, I thought it was just okay at first. But not tonight...I was powerless against it and pretty much just at the entire abdomen. Oops:)

Anyway! On to more comfort things...comfort foods and what else? I had a few other comfort moments this past weekend, and those nostalgic times always give my heart this huge warm hug and make me smile. First, I received the Footloose DVD in my Easter basket. Umm, yeah, I know! Wasn't I just the luckiest. Thanks Easter Bunny. So after watching that with Eric and Rachel and reciting almost every line cuz I'm that cool, I purchased the CD on ituens and went for a run with all that music. It made me laugh a lot in the midst of a mid-day run in 80 degree high-humidity Carolina sun. Loved it. Then, today I was taking a walk on my daily path and realized for the first time as I cut across the golf course that the pine cone shards and dirt path reminded me of when I used to go to Eagle River, Wisconsin almost every summer when I was little with my best friends Lisa and Becky and their most amazing family. I love them like they were all my own! And it just made me smile and I literally felt like THE luckiest person in the entire world. I was warm and fuzzy all over and laughed, like, is this really life? How lucky.

So, I guess the moral of this story is that life is awesome, and the yoga of it is that if you recognize and allow yourself to see what's going on around you, expand your awareness, that it'll just give you a big fat hug. And make you laugh. And perhaps entice you to put one foot after another on what may have otherwise been a grueling run. Use it, it works:)

On to a meditation update, the coolest thing I read today was to attempt to look at yourself as if you were outside your body looking down on you, and you're able to see yourself from all angles. And just imagine, if you're able to take this into other "regular" life. Omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. That is Satchidananda's thing. Why can't it be ours too? We're all one in the same, really. And to be connected to people that I respect that much...feels pretty cool.

Eric's sister Rachel lent me a book that has been monumental in her life, that she can just pick up every so often and learn more and more...and she hands out to everybody. Kinda like me and The Mastery of Love. Anyway, hers is Sex, Love and Dharma. I'll keep you posted. Pun intended! Eew I know sorry:)

Love and light...comfort and softness,

K