When I'm sad,one of my favorite thingsto dois reach out to someoneand drop a tiny blessingin her lap,as if gently tipping a watering canover her sprouting seed.Todayit was a woman who has been growingher passions into a businessand I just wrote,Dear Sister,I love watchingyou bloom.

The wayto your spiritis through your body.

The way I touchearth and heaven at once,stretching from soil to sky.The way the mat holds my feetand my feet hold me. The way it seems so simple,something to be brushed off as ‘too easy,’and the way it is actuallyfoundational.The way I knowthat when I am in it,I am it—unshakeable no matter whatwinds blow or rains pour down.It is as if I remain,eternal,undaunted,majestic.—mountain pose

When children are brought into the world with an extra chromosome—with Down syndrome, that is—the first words parents often hear are, 'I’m sorry,' as if Down syndrome itself is something to be down about. It’s not. I want to say, 'Congratulations.' I want to say, 'What a beautiful gift you’ve brought into the world, one more being here for a reason, here with purpose.' I want to say, 'Oh, mama,' or 'Oh, dad—this new little being is going to lift you up.

a green juiceis not self-careif it’s meant to starve notnourish.—moderation

No matter who you are or how you’re born, your arrival deserves to be celebrated.

Maybe the most revolutionarything she could have saidwhen I asked her in a letterto describewhat she looks likewas,"I like everything about me.I wouldn't changea thing.

How is the ocean not enraged, swelling—how is it not furious with grief:we have drowned it in plastic,its waves are no longer its own. How does it survive this,blistered by our carelessness?We are drops of the ocean:why can’t we see this?—when plastic outnumbers fish

I go to yogato tend my owngarden.—self-love

I began yogato move my bodybut I didn’t knowthat was only the hook. On the mat, I have used my body not onlyto discover new shapes and poses,but I have found thatin the posesI have discovered me.It is my eyes that now see new shapes—perspective clear and shifted.And my soul that has risen up and called to me. The truth of who I amis unfolding.I have stepped throughthe back door of my heart,to the place that meets my soul.I rest in my true nature.—yoga changes everything