places of love, acceptance and joy

HELLO! Happy December 7th! Happy I GO HOME IN TWO DAYS! Happy 1 MORE FINAL! Woot woot. I am in GREAT spirits today. For so many reasons. I am SO excited to come home to that little land of wonderful that I am so lucky to call home. To my big huge family that has taken care of me for the last 19 years. To snow. To relaxing. To RYLA planning. To so many things. Im just excited... you get the just of it.

The last few days I have had a couple of those moments of unutterable fulfillment.. moments where my heart was soaring, and all the world's problems were at peace for that moment.Moments of love, joy and acceptance, the things that we should be living by, that we should be connected by, that we should be soaring all the time because of.

1. Special Olympics Dance on Saturday night. About 50 athletes and their parents came and got their groove on for their Holiday party here at SCU. We SCCAPers hosted them, and danced the night away with them. It was more fun that you could ever imagine having at a dance, and easily the best Saturday night this year. No reserves. No Im cooler than you. No worrying about what other people think. Just fun and joy and some serious dance skills. Dance skills like you have never seen, confidence and excitment and an outpouring of love that is so dang special. Seriously... its amazing

2. Glide service Sunday morning. Glide is the church in Pursuit of Happyness, in the middle of the tenderloin (the roughest part of SF) and THE single most amazing church service I have ever experienced.  It was all about love and joy and acceptance and equality. All the things that every single church should be preaching. Singing, dancing, laughing and loving life... with people who live lives most of us could never imagine.  The reverend didn't just read from the bible, he read from the Torah and a couple other texts. We said amen, shalom, namaste, rock on. We threw our hands in the air. We started out the service hugging everyone around us. And I teared up about seven million times at the amount of joy and love, in a place where people have so little they love and enjoy so much. The world should take a lesson from these people. Again.. seriously mind blowing.

3. My run this morning. My ipod stopped working so I ran in silence. Its sunnier out than its been for a while. And I ran to a nature place.  I am not sure what it is, some sort of religious area.. with a church like building surrounded by nature. Peace, quiet, growth, organic landscape and a whole lot of beauty. I walked through in silence, taking it all in. Nature is an amazing thing. Where trees curl around each other and grass grows every which way. A place where you stop looking at the flaws because it is just real and organic and it feels SO dang good. I miss that. And I am so very excited to get back to it in a couple days.

Dear universe, you are a freakin rock star. Thanks for this out of this world life.
Remind me to tell you about my paper on immigration...interesting stuff.
Happy day, hope you are smiling and loving and living right.
xoxoxox