Crested Butte and Ginger Cafe Memes

Note To Self: Better to have loved and lost

Everything is temporary and always changing.
Try to be in the moment, let go of the past .. both good and bad. We will always have the memories, but trying to re-live, re-create, or sustain the state or circumstances of a past moment will be disappointing.

Better to have loved then lost, than never to have loved at all.

<3

What comes up, must come down.

Love and Peace!

Positivity and Affirmations

"If you dont like something ... Change your mind." 

Really that simple? 

Try it. If you think something is difficult - tell yourself that it is easy. 

If you think you wont enjoy something, try to put into that task as much love as you can.

If you find someone's attitude frustrating, try to understand where they are coming from. 

Life can be a messy beautiful FUN challenge. 

The thoughts you think literally create your life. 

Love and believe in the good of it all. 

Patience. 

Wonder. 

Excitement. 

Innocence. 

Trust. 

I love you all so much. 

Happiness is not a destination

"Happiness is not a destination to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling." I love LOVE love that! 

Stop waiting for the things you want, or that you think will make you happy! You have the resources NOW to choose an attitude of gratitude, a smile, and positive, supporting loving thoughts, actions, and emotions! You are here NOW :) How are you going to make the best of it?! 

And traveling. Yes. I am going to do that too. Summer in the Butte has been incredible. I have met a great tribe ... 

Looks like southeast Asia is in my near future. The syncronicities are hurdling me towards the inner and outer evolution of this life fast fast FAST! Believing dreaming and DaoING are making it all happen ;) 

Just spent a beautiful weekend in Moab, utah. Hitchhiked there and met the most beautiful, sharing, family of brothers and sisters along the way. 

The crooked road is lined with opportunity... Just be free and say yes. Aligning with love and excited to be embracing la vida de mis sueños ! Estoy viviendo el sueño ! Todos los dias estàn mejor y mejor! Con un corazón abierto todo está posible! 

Зарас, цей момент .. Є все що ми тримаєм ... Все міняється завжди, і це для найкращого.  Ми, тут, в цьому моменту, будуєм наше житя з кожною думкою... І в кожним моменті ми вибераєм ... Любов. Щастя. 

Візми мене за руку, і помандруєм вкруги світа. Dame la mano y nos damos una vuelta al mundo. 

Paz. Мир. Peace. 

Bear-ly Normal Dreams

I had a very vivid dream last night that there was a bear in my new house. The new house I was living in was great, by the way! My side of the home had 3 beds and its own bathroom. Anyways, sleeping is one of my favorite hobbies .. And my dreams can tell. There was a bear. A small black bear that during many parts of the dream resembled Shadow, although Shadow, too, was present during all of this.. Smelling and even playing with the bear. At one point the bear was biting me but at no point REALLY do I recall feeling as if I was in serious physical danger. At one point someone injected the bear with a lethal injection, but it reused to die. It spaced out in a seizure type of movement at one point but then quickly regained consciousness and began to walk around again. I wanted to keep him and for him to go away, all at once. This dream is so allegorical to what is going on in waking life, seemingly more so even , as I type out the minuscule percentage of the details I can actually recall. 

Peace and Live

Sofie

Vegan Twice Cooked Mushroom and Vegetable Stew

Not a photo of my stew, but a pretty photo anyways. I don't have a camera right now!
My stew sort of looked like this ! Photo taken from here !

My friend Haellen was raving about her awesome twice-cooked beef stew, and it inspired me to make a veggie version!

It is so thick and Earthy :) Filled with that savoury Umami flavor that I crave on -7 degree days ..

Here is the recipe ..

(As always I made a huge batch to have enough for leftovers and didn't measure a thing .. )

Boil a pot full of water with quinoa, brown rice, salt, and a few bay leaves. These things cook the longest so they go first. I also added dried mushrooms in this step. I have an "assortment bag" of dried shrooms that my mom sent me, and they smell like the inside of a Chinese grocery store .. but taste delicious cooked and add a really Earthy Umami flavor to the broth. Cook for about 20 minutes.

Add buckwheat to the soup and cook for 10 minutes.

Add chopped potatoes, carrots, celery, rosemary, thyme, and cumin and cook for 25 minutes.

This is the first half of the soup. You could definitely just stop here and have a delicious soup ready to eat. I, however, set out to make a thick stew, so the recipe continues ..

After you have cooked this part, transfer it to a food processor or a high speed blender and process until it is  smooth. (Note to self: This creamy soup tastes so much like gravy for mashed potatoes, but is totally vegan! Really looking forward to making some mashed potatoes in the future and using the soup as the saus! )

Now, follow the above recipe all over again, but also using the "gravy" that you you just made .

This way when it is done, you will have a thick veggie stew with plenty of "chunkiness" to it from cooking it twice, with double ingredients!

YUM.

I think this soup would also be good with added coconut milk, chopped scallions, and tofu, but I don't have any of those things on hand so possibly I will try that another time!

IS THIS FOR REAL? Anxiety and freaking out in a good way !

OMG! IS this for realZ YO? Im going to South America? In less than three weeks I am arriving in MeXico  City !?

What the what ?!

Yeah so the past two days this trip feels more real to me than ever ! Like, it's happening.

I feel anxiety for sure, but just in an awesome excited way just like I get myself before every "deep" adventure I go on .. but this one is just .. different! I mean this is a HUGE trip!

I have never been out of the country after an age I could remember ... I mean me and Dan are about to become homeless bum gypsies travelling across COUNTRIES! ACROSS WILDERNESS! ahhh .. camping :) I can't wait to re-connect with LA TIERRA! JEEEYZUS I am crazy excited! So much energy inside me right now :PPPPPPPPPPPPP

Just gotta keep it light, keep it funny, keep it gay :)

AMOR
PAZ
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ALGO NUEVO!

SOFIE