"It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it..but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives." (unknown source) This has been my mantra over the last few days, as SSY winds down to closing. This last week of teaching classes has been soooooo amazing. The tears were flowing as was the laughter for you and me both!

  Last week while teaching, the song Magic( from Xanadu, sung by the fab Olivia Newton John) popped into my head and dropped me into the following memory: I'm eight years old. I'm with my best friend, Yvonne, and we're holding hands, skating at the roller rink. I'm wearing royal blue terry cloth shorts with yellow piping, a pink t-shirt with a sparkly decal "FOXY" patched across the chest, over -the -knee socks that match my red, white and blue roller skates.

 While in Hawaii recently, I initiated a huge change in my relationship to food by deciding that I would only put whole, living foods into my body. I gave up sugar, gluten, dairy, meat, and all soy products. I started juicing fruits and vegetables and incorporated raw food into my meals and ate more than I ever did throughout the day.