> > sayulita <
now a bit about this little mexican town we've chosen to plant ourselves in for a while... sayulita is a little fishing and surfing village about 30 minutes north of puerto vallarta in the state of nayarit.
while traveling with family in mexico years ago, ian and i got to stay in sayulita for one night. we were dropped off in the middle of town and just wandered around. we found some guys who were shaping surfboards and they drove us in the back of their pickup truck to a place we could have for the night. we stayed, we surfed, we fell in love with sayulita. so much so that, having spent only 24 hours in the town, we decided to get married here 5 years ago. ...and here we are again.
sayulita only has somewhere around 4,000 residents. it feels really small. we walk everywhere - la plaza, la playa, las, tiendas, la escuela. sometimes, instead of using the bridge, we've put the kids on our backs and walked through the rio that runs through town. on just our little street, we walk past wandering chickens, babies riding on motorcycles, kids driving atvs, trash and shit and tropical flowers, roving dogs, tourists, surfers, and ancient ones. there is a lot of life here and it feels like we are right in the middle of it. at least for now it is all exciting.
we are dirty and sandy and sweaty and together. it feels good.
> > escuela <
koruna started school here yesterday. we all loved the early morning walk to school. the streets were filled with kids and parents doing the same thing. we had visited school the day before and neither koruna nor marvel wanted to leave.
when ian picked runa up from escuela the first day, he took the below picture of her. a friend in her class arrived in sayulita last month and was apparently really excited for koruna to be here. you can see that she planted herself as close to koruna as possible.
while nuestra hija was at school, the rest of us headed to the beach. since the waves and the tourist season haven't picked up yet, we had the whole beach to ourselves.
just us, a couple of paddleboarders, and the jellyfish. i picked up 3 big jellyfish stings. we asked for an adventure and we are getting one.
we hope to be in our casa in the next day or two. just enjoying our time together and taking it day by day.
> > cinco anos <
i married ian ingram in sayulita, mexico 5 years ago today. i am still stunned that i get to be his wife.
ian and i contemplated marriage for years before taking the leap. i am forever happy that we leapt. because writing our vows altered us. it forced us to search our hearts for the meaning of marriage. it required us to explore and share with each other our ideas and expectations of love. creating our vows allowed us to consider what we wanted to promise and what we believed we really could promise. here is what we came up with.
Wedding Vows
-I promise to move creatively through stillness and change with love as the constant.
-I promise to honor the evolution of that love.
-I promise to honor your individuality, to cherish your dreams, and to help you follow them, knowing that your self-exploration is key to our love. I know the same is true for myself.
-I promise to indulge in and share with you life’s rapturous wonders.
-I promise to walk through fears together.
-I promise to accept and love your family as my own.
-I promise to be humbled by our divinity and to find the poetry in our humanity.
-I promise to love you forever and to allow that love to illuminate the potential to love all the world, all life.
i LOVE ian ingram.