what's going on with pia? working away and squirreling away the cash, experience, and new estimations of birth in the hospital (ahem.) i have a good job here in portland and birth is always amazing on many levels.

still miss new mexico, but certainly not pinon allergy season, (thank you goddess, praise jesus). whaddo i miss about NM...let me count the ways, christmas chili cheese enchiladas with beans, posole, and sopapillas covered in honey and a pepsi-more napkins, please, and i want to memorize this diner forever, a blue sky like an expression of my heart soaring out of my chest, dry hills and mountains and scrubby plants that plague poor doggie paws, the existence of a turquiose trail, sisters in the 10,000 waves turning red and sighing and hinoki cedar lotion to smooth it all out, a bright, hot day blackened and cooled stepping through a doorway into adobe, tiles and latillas and the body goes blind and limp until the next meal is cooked. oh, what is it, goat cheese and green chile tamales? baby is crying for some those ladies made at the church. country alt rock and swamp stew from louisina blowing through town, i came down the hill from mushroom hunting and now these mariachi are blowing my mind, a 300 year old acequiea is flowing again, there will always be water in this desert. and the indians are gonna win.

but back to portland! spring is here and it's fun to ride my bike and write some soul poertry on cherry blossoms and get to yoga class and reconnect with old friends and meet some new ones. soon enough, there is ocean and mountain and tree and waters to roam and cabins to hideaway in. coffees sipped in the rain, salmon smoked on cedar planks, berries filling out both cheeks and then the mashing them in your mouth and the juice drooling down your chin, plus, the farmers have promised me a bundle everyweek of something rooty and wonderful and has never been in a grocery store, so i have a lot to love in Oregon.

BUT! i am getting pretty fed up with "the instant life in a box, just insert self " that i got in the mail, so i am thinking about trading it out for something a little greener and funner and more homemade...still looking around. the inner life is pretty busy, enjoying this journey back to my own self and getting very familiar with my inutition and inner knowing. hope you are well! lovingly, pia