Recipe for LIVING!

Starting from scratch

Organic LIVING

Savoring the flavors

THIS DAY

This MOMENT

OPEN book

BLANK page

Tastes CHANGE

What sounds GOOD?

HUNGRY for life

For something NEW

What do I want NOW?

Let’s see

OH Joy!

What will I COOK up this day?!

A pinch of this

A pinch of that

Slice this

Dice that

Stir in this

Beat that

Add this

Omit that

OPTIONS

YOU choose

Plain

Ala mode

Try this

Try that

Too much salt

Not enough pepper

OVERseasoning

Finding our way

TASTEing

Adjusting

Fine-tuning

Through exploration

OVERCOOKing happens

Tough meat

Chewy vegetables

Dry cake

Charred cookies

We LEARN

To gage time and temperature

Yeast fails to RISE

We start over again

WHY?

Because we must

We are here to LIVE

To mix it up

Discover what we like

What we don’t

To come ALIVE

Freeing the passion

That enlivens every moment

No matter

SWEET

BITTER

SAVORY

SOUR

BURNT

CRUSTY

No ONE Recipe

For LIVING

For what fuels the fires

It is a GOOD life

And

EACH of us

Gets to decide

What makes IT

GOOD

So sample this

And sample that

Without ceasing

Your ever-CHANGING pallet

Longs to be fed

THIS DAY

This moment

This LIFEtime!

ENJOY the OPPORTUNITIES

That come your way

Say YES!

Be OPEN

Willing to be SURPRISED

And SEE what you like NOW

Welcome this SAVORY adventure

Delighting in the DISCOVERY

Flooding your senses

REFRESHing

The gift

Of LETTING GO

And

Reaching for the MORE

Willing to be uncomfortable

SHOWing up

At the banquet of LIFE

This ABUNDANT Table

HUNGRY!

THIRSTY!

Ravenous for

NEW RECIPES

Offerings so Vast

We are privileged

To MIX it up

Until the journey ends

My recipe for LIVING:

FEED the whole of YOU

Mind, body, heart & soul

Moment by moment

Choice by choice

Day by day

Come what may!

I have literally and metaphorically eaten my way through Nashville over the last 6 months, relishing every opportunity, saying YES! to invitations and showing up for the new adventures presented in the moment, day by day.  I have tasted the sweetness, the juicy, the savory, the bitter, the burnt and charred, the unpalatable and the yummmmmm – All gifts as I mix it up and discover enlivened and refreshed by the exploration.  This life is a banquet!  Feasting on life isn’t about what is served but our willingness to stay open, sampling new offerings, savoring the experiences for the sake of experiencing, coming alive with a sense of gratitude for the privilege to live this life.  Recognizing there is no one way, no one recipe for living but knowing it is a good life and each of us gets to decide what makes life good; being fully aware when we taste the pure goodness and who we are with when our senses are ignited with passion that fuels all of us:  mind, body, heart and soul.     

The invitation this day is to start from scratch, let the page be blank ready for new recipes.  Ask What sounds GOOD?!  What am I hungry for NOW?!  What can I COOK up today?!  What SPICES will I try?!  Even the smallest openings and adjustments bring BIG floods of new energies as we are wired to explore.  Know that you have options, you have choices to omit this and add that, stand in your power and choose from where you are now in your life, nourishing your needs and wants that are ever-changing.  Your JOY in living is your own unique Recipe for LIVING as you relish the flavors of this life that awaken your senses.  There is much, much, much more to be discovered through going within and venturing out into the world OPEN, letting go and reaching for more, willing to be uncomfortable, tasting ALL of life AND coming to see life truly is a banquet, the grandest FEAST.  GO AHEAD:  Take a bite…spit out what you don’t like…make a yuck face…sample something else…savor the deliciousness…Yummmmmm…ENJOY!