Mexican Groove
We've been back from our US travels for 2 months now and we've hit our Mexican groove. It feels a little different the second year. We know the place, we know the people, we've got our routines. It feels less like a grand adventure and more like normal life.
The kids go to school.
Ian makes art.
I work on HUICHOL LOVE.
We hike through jungles.
We play at the beach.
We release baby turtles.
Ian and I take archery classes, Koruna takes a circus class, and Marvel just started soccer.
We all love the life we've created here. Still, the other day the kids taped this note on our closet door. (Marvel's writing and artwork. Guided by Koruna.)
I reckon that's how it goes when your body is in one place but your heart is in two :)
Seven
On Sunday I will have been married to Ian Ingram for seven years. My husband looks carefully at the world and at himself, consistently finding beauty in the imperfections. He has a commitment to and an appreciation for the real. Seven years in, I realize what a gift it is to find those extraordinary qualities in a partner / true love. That guy I married - he really knocks me out.
I revisit our vows every anniversary and so I'll share them here again.
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.