oh its been so long.

So the summer is gone and over, to recap.  I danced, I smiled, I laughed tears out of my eyes, and, I fell so very very very in love in the freest way, in the best way. 

I have been back at school for three months now.  I am living in the environmentally aware house on my campus, full of beautiful people with beautiful minds and hearts. 

What has reminded to start this blog up again is that I have started a new term at school and created my own classes, one where I am learning satipatthana (vipassana meditation) and one where my teacher and I are both learning mindfulness-based cognitive therapy together.

 It had been so long since I had meditated that I did not realize what I had lost.  I have started it up again and I feel this crazy clarity, this simple contentment in the core of my being, and this appreciation for being alive, and especially an appreciation for being young.  I have so much life ahead of me!  Absolutely crazy.  Things are coming back into focus.  And it is really, really beautiful.

I promise I will keep you filled in.

Also, anyone interested in the satipatthana sutta, I recommend going to dharmaseed.org and listening to one of Joseph Goldstein's talks on it.  Or any of his talks.  Or any of the talks on the site.

Have a beautiful beauuutiful day!