How often do you count your blessings? With the bustling lives we lead, it’s so easy to take our blessings for granted. Many times I forget to be grateful for my awesome family of friends, the delicious food growing ripe in my backyard, and this body that takes me for a run every morning.
And it’s thanks to the lovely ladies of 23 Feet that I’ve been reminded this week. So read on and take note of your blessings today and every single moment that you can.
We are being shown again and again by the people we’ve met on the road that joy can be found in the smallest things. A wholesome meal shared under mountain stars, an unexpected kindness in the heat of the day. We’ve traveled through four states already, and one of the most magnificent gifts I’ve been given was the accidental witnessing of a sunset in the Mojave Desert. Our engine had threatened explosion, and for hours we were stranded on the side of the road, surrounded by Joshua trees and distant mountains. The sun blazed under the horizon, we were alone, and my heart felt quiet, open as the desert sky.
We have been blessed with good attitudes, friends to lean on and a wide open expanse of beautiful land to roam. Good people have trusted us with their stories. Let’s remember how lucky we are. Let’s sit around campfires with friends, travel our country when we can and create opportunities for ourselves. Let’s be grateful for what we’ve been given.
Now watch this humbling and inspiring film from Sean Mullens about a friend of his named Michael and his daily ritual to find his natural self through surfing. If this doesn’t inspire you to overcome what stands in your way and get out and do what you love… I don’t know what will.
“Part of the water, and my draw to it is that it’s a birthright… You can transcend. You can get to a place where you’re sort of free to be able to dance, to be able to be fluid… To be what you were meant to be.”
Happy Friday!
Thanks to Andy Maser of the Epicocity Project for the tip on the video!
PHOTO via gorp.com and 23 Feet
I love “Birthright.” I think of this film every morning I take out my SUP board, grateful for two good legs to stand on while spending time on the water