Filled with excitement and celery

Deep breath.

Deeeeeeeep breath.

Major surge of energy these past few hours. I'm normally at a steady full throttle anyway, but this is just ridiculous. I think it's mostly my excitement over consistently meeting more and more people who are so...incredibly bright and open and engaging. There's that trade-off of energy - you feed off theirs and they feed off yours and it's one of those happy little exchanges. Today was perfect for that. Truthfully, I was getting a little confused with my body and her recent weirdness, and I bumped into 3 separate people today who helped me so much more than they realized. I have that extra bump of certainty and confidence that she's just doing what she's supposed to be doing, and everything will clear out and balance out. I'm sooooo looking forward to a more substantial clean sweep. I love the eventuality of starting fresh and taking my whole being to another level.

On another note...today I was thinking a lot about this lifestyle in general. Being vegan was a diet and an animal rights thing for me. Being raw is my lifestyle. It fits with my yoga obsession, animal rights, the spiritual growth I've experienced (and am still experiencing), and all the incredible information that I have absorbed (and am still absorbing). Raw food was that final piece to the puzzle. I had everything else except this very important piece. So I just spent all day being insanely grateful for everything.

Earlier today I had thought a bit about how our bodies and interpretations of raw food are different. I pinpointed my standpoint on it, and that is to eat what is balanced and what is the right fit at the moment for this particular body. Being the intense researcher that I am (it's almost like a joke among everyone who knows me well enough..."Yeah, just ask Steph. She'll research it to death and then let you know the verdict..."), I've taken a mish mash of facts and figures and experimentation and have, so far, ended up with my current habits. I think we're all in a state of transition almost constantly - we change our eating habits, our routines, our sleep patterns, etc., depending on what we have to do or what we've learned. Being raw is something that will definitely remain unchanged, but I will wiggle around within it, which I have done several times already and still do.

I shall leave you with that. Enjoy the night.

Love and rawk on,

Steph