The Wine Glass

I’ve recently started to drink my morning beverages out of a wine glass.

The elegance of a wine glass, the nature of how we sip because of that glass, for me, is all experiential.

My goal: living in those experiences to optimal transcendency. I even stopped material gifting to my nieces a few years back and replaced them with “experiences ” 😉. Merely setting up those gifts gave us another gift of love bonding, the excitement of planning something special just for us to celebrate them and how special they are to me and the world 💕.

We all get derailed and our body suffers. For me, I was in my best physical shape years before and upto the passing of my brother. I had invested years into spinning, Cross training and developing optimal nutritional habits that included everything upto and including daily wheatgrass shots. My water bottle was always accompanied by lemon and mint sprigs and the pre- bread

option at social dinners in restaurants not even a momentary consideration or void as was the few bites of an occasional dessert a treat that would never stick to me because of all the energy I poured into my body daily.

The impact, aftermath and long-haul recovery from our loss was lengthy for my entire family. Some (one) of us came back sooner but the rest of us carried and still carry it deeply compounded with the residual-ness of our very already challenging upbringing. My brother’s loss from this life is with us everyday and I think I can speak for all of us and say it’s changed how we carry our life but its also made some of us stronger. Some of us have created even more toxic habits coating it with shiny things or varying degrees of bandaids, some of us just keep/kept plowing through the pain unearthing it all, the messiness and darkness trying to finally find the grace, the reconnection to the spiritual “divinity” we ALL ARE, this healing supported by my brother’s love and guidance if we were/are open to it🙏💕

Then my mother got very sick suddenly 5 years ago and passed away shortly after and it all started again, on a different level but still derailment, before the last recovery had a chance to set in…

I accept life is a journey full of slips and falls as well as rises and hopeful eventual forward movement into beautiful consistent motion. Trauma/pain can anchor us In very dark places, If something as small as a wine glass can aid in my final redirection for better health , I know ironic, imagine if we really made a point to pay attention to so many other things, implement or eradicate them from our experiences. Imagine how our life would transcend. I’m living in this awareness , it is huge🙏💕 when you break from toxicity your world opens up exponentially🙏

Here’s to finding your wine glass 🥂🍷 🙏💕