Romanticizing the Island Life

I look forward to waking up before the sun rises, and taking that first lungful of ocean air at the cliff of this island, while practicing yoga.

I love the sight of dawn, where this part of the Earth moves from night to day, stars to clouds, moon to sun.

As the sun peeks, I greet it as the visible light of the Creator and absorb all that warm and tingling goodness, awakening my whole body and soul in a calm yet high energy state.

I want to play new music, try new tunes and playlists, and fill my heart with song. At the same time, I want to listen more to Nature — the ocean and the breeze, the insects and the trees swaying, and the sounds of the animals around me.

I want to drink my morning tea like it’s magic, as I enjoy the ocean view and the company of guests on the island.

I want to make new friends with strangers from foreign lands and listen to their lives and the stories that abound in their homeland.

I want to prepare my own healthy food as I’ve always done, and savor every bite and flavor, every texture and aroma.

I want to teach people how to ground in their bodies more, enjoy the present more, and release all worries about the past and the future.

I want them to know the miracle of their breath, that every inhale is a communion with the air and space that contain the whole universe.

And the ocean shall bathe me in her silky water and fill my eyes with white sand, fish, turtles, corals, and seashells.

The blue skies shall mirror in my eyes, and thunder shall clap as loud as my voice.

While the earth shall tickle my feet with her many sensations and textures and atune me with all the living beings, visible and invisible, around me.

I want 2024 to be filled with romance, the way romance was born out of Nature and out of listening to the beauty and silence of Mother Earth.

Mother Earth takes care of me and I take care of Her. <3

// 01 Jan 2024