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It started out as a ‘Tower of Doom’… a blight on the horizon!

Concrete and steel, visible from miles around, a monument of corporate agri-business (at least in my mind)

Then I had an epiphany, a change of heart…

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Appreciation ROCKS!!!

I’m totally serious here… it totally does! It shifts your energy in an instant!

You are surrounded by people you love… why not let them know it??? (you don’t even have to say the ‘L’ word!)

My friend Matt called, said let’s go spearfishing! My joy said YES (I love the ocean). It was already mid-afternoon and I was ravenous…

Once I get in the water, I’m typically there for two or three hours, and I burn a few thousand calories. I needed to get some food in me fast…

There was nothing at home to eat, I had to grab something on the way…

On the way, wondering what to get to eat, I was seized by an inspiration…

I grabbed my camera and started filming…

\”Changing the World one Blessing at a time\”

The rest is history! Bon Appetite!

How present are we?

I just got a reminder from my morning smoothie.

Most every day, I blend up a concoction of juice (fresh coconuts picked myself, when I’m in Florida), green powder and spices.

Then I raise my glass and bless it.

Then I chug!

The first couple of swallows go fast. I’m usually hungry, and there’s a reason they call it break-fast.

Back to the blessing; this is a decades old ritual for me. I bless all the ingredients, balance and cancel out any low vibrations in the mix, give thanks to all the plants and food, and invite it fully into me, to energize and activate the cells within me. (Sometimes the vision of the smoothie circulating in my body and blessing my cells is so energizing, I find myself dancing!)

And THEN I gulp.

Sometimes I’m in a hurry, and automatically say the blessing, reciting it as a mantra without any feeling. A part of me (left brain) has been convinced that this rote repeating is (almost) as powerful as when I pause and actually feel what I’m saying.

Its the same with a greeting; they’re either perfunctory, or we bring ourselves fully to the moment, pausing and looking into each other’s eyes.

Its either knowledge or experience, ordinary or divine. Taking that moment is divine.

What happens as we take that moment and truly greet the personalities of our day?

Namaste! (the Divine in me recognizes the Divine in you)