love like water

i think about the girl from March from time to time

I don’t recognize her

it took eight months of evolution to get here

in that time i reconnected with a practice that gives me purpose, community, the wildness of earth

i met myself for the first time ever.

i didn’t think of myself as my own friend before this season.

it was easy to turn my back on someone I didn’t care for

and now its easy to hug someone who I love and accept

it was my birthday a couple months ago

growing older is a gift

to see versions of myself move through time and space is a unique nostalgia

i feel the same hope i did my first day of college

the same oneness when i went to my first yoga class

the same despair i felt when i was sick for three years

the same soul-level happiness when i was in the Tetons.

i wonder the core feeling i will have when i look back on these days years from now.