Becoming

This month I did it—I switched from a typical American diet to a 100% plant-based diet.  Within a week of eating naked salads, fresh vegetable juices and delicious fruit smoothies, I experienced both a clarity of mind and a cleanliness of body—as if the plants I ingested had scrubbed every one of my cells.  And too, my extra pounds began to melt away—17 in only four weeks!  I’m down two dress sizes and can’t remember when I felt this energetic and raring to go. 

Now looking to do more than walk for exercise, I find myself thinking about buying an adult tricycle.  I actually wanted to buy one many years ago, but was ridiculed for wanting to ride a “baby” bike.  Well, today it doesn’t matter if others don’t understand—I’m getting one.  I don’t even have to close my eyes to imagine myself pedaling through my neighborhood.  And that makes me smile.

Today I give myself permission to be all that I can be—with no apologies or excuses to anyone.

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. –e.e. Cummings

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” –Raymond Hull


“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” –David Carradine

Enjoy your day!