Maui, Navin, Wayne Dyer, and sea turtles.

We went on a baby-moon. Our last official trip sans diaper bag, car seat and/or stroller (I love my children. Why would I want to PUSH them away from me?) (I love that movie!) So off to Maui we went. I wanted to see Wayne Dyer, and N wanted to see everything else. So we did this via a two day Wayne Dyer conference, a snorkeling trip, and plenty of beach time and sea food.

The conference was great, and I got a lot of really inspirational quotes from it, including one from Gandhi that I've never heard before. I am also a little curious about Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. which are supposed to be secret and can make you levitate. N says he had learned them at an Ashram in India...I must ask him more. At one point, Wayne even noticed my stomach bulge and generously gave me a couple of children's books and made me promise to read to the fetus everyday. I have broken this promise for exactly one day, but that was because of jet lag and all that. Tonight, fetus will hear all about how unstoppable he can be!

Our snorkeling trip was all about following murky visions of giant sea turtles until they become clearer, and swimming closely behind them in the reef muck they leave in their wake, hoping to see more of them or their friends. These creatures live for hundreds of years. Who knows what our turtles saw in their life time. I only wish we had rented an underwater camera for this expedition– although, our previous underwater-camera pictures have been of ourselves with our lips stretched over scuba pipes, our goggles filled with water, and no sea creatures to show for it.

My doodles are from the conference. Bad habit from art school...I cannot sit thru a lecture without doodling something while I'm at it.

Om morning meditations

 

This is from Wayne Dyer's cd titled Meditations for Manifestation. It helps set my day, makes me happy and peaceful and unrushed.

I am truth.

I wanted my first one-a-day drawing to be something that meant something. And I found this unexpected inspiration from Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa. I see her often on my tv screen in an on-again-off-again attempt at prenatal yoga. "I am truth", she inspires us to think. 'Sat' when you inhale, 'Nam' as you exhale will help me get through labor, she says. So, I have been thinking of her a lot.
Most gurus I meet on dvds are simple, and clad in cotton saris or unembellished kurtas. But Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa inspires the artist in me with her clear skin, clean spirit, and well placed jewelry. If I could own sets of turban pins and matching necklaces, I wouldn't mind trading my jeans for flowing white cotton. With this in mind, I wanted to draw her, and the words she inspires me to believe in.