Each Person Has a Story

A Few of my Journals

“Hold on to your softness. This world will give you every reason to harden.
Don’t let it take what makes you you.” 

- We The Urban*

I dropped out of college at twenty-one to travel the world with my soon-to-be husband. I had been an English major at a state university with a desire to become a writer or a professor. Instead, I became an expert at maneuvering my way through international airports and visiting museums that held the artworks of masters such as Van Gogh, Dali, Cassat, and Lois Mailou Jones. I traveled on bullet trains and in tour busses, seeing cities and mountains in faraway lands.

I wrote about my excursions in journals and was keenly aware that each person I met had a story. Isabel Allende wrote: “We all come from a sort of ocean of spirituality and consciousness. We’re all drops of water in that ocean. We need to be in this body to learn something through the senses, through suffering, through joy…And this feeds, nurtures this ocean with experiences that are important.”   

Over the years, I have sat in prayer groups, spent every morning meditating at my altar, joined Deeksha circles, and sung songs of worship –to cleanse my heart, feel joy, and be a light in the world. My intention is to serve children, women, and those who are marginalized so they may reach their dreams. And how I wish that we may all find peace.

Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom is my expanded story from dropping out of college to dropping fully into myself. It is the map of the countries I traveled within my being to discover a rich, rewarding life of love and radical acceptance. I’m excited to share the news that April 21st my memoir will be in bookstores. Please preorder here on my website through your favorite vendor and join me on my book tour. Let’s discover how to walk through our fires and serve our world.

*From @crystalcadencela