Embracing things as they are yes but reaching towards an awesome living potential. Knowing the match of living food and my/our living selves is a primal pairing that can no longer be disrupted. Started total raw in 1990 after years of trying/failing to get there. True 7 years then 5 years less-than-total in the face of old habit and no raw friends. The Boutenkos got me back into total raw over three years ago. Grace is flowing back into my existence. I see hope where I was blindly chasing desire. Mind and spirit come into balance...thought generates meaningful karmic manifestation with minimal ironic downside. Old codes of being arise but illumination/perception of alternatives opens new ways of wandering. No longer afraid to encounter friends unknown...fading anxieties about the snarl of dysfunctionality patterns that once defined/limited me; the tangle now sinking, melting into a lake of compassionate and nimble awarenesses. Uncertain, yes, but endowed with ample grace and abilities. At home with nature.