Well, all good things must come to an end, and so it is for our trip back to Upstate NY. The share is a little late.  It took me some time to be able to get to it and finish it, but we hope you enjoy coming along for our adventure back. Love and gratitude, Team Tolberty Music: Chris and Thomas “Broken Chair” (one of my very favorites!) Paul Simon “Father Daughter” and OPEN HAPPINESS (Coke) Ft. Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Travis McCoy, Cee-Lo Green and Janelle Monae

I got to cross the finish line this year! So happy and grateful and honored to be able to make an impact in this way. Sending out a thank you to the organizers and volunteers for this event and a big thank you to the Team R4K riders and all those who donated. I appreciate you all so much. Thank you! Music- “Higher” Flume re-mix by Ta-ku

No chicken butt shirt, but still reason to celebrate…  

Finding balance in a way that honors my desire to have a big giant “yes” to this life, and still honors what’s possible for this body can be tricky. Here’s a little slice of how I navigate the tightrope. Sometimes I fall off on either side, especially while I am navigating extra treatments and stresses and, gulp, travel. BUT the expression of the beauty of the life that emerges is worth the risk and discernment (that’s the word I was looking for in the video haha). Sometimes what I might be able to say yes to one day is different than what I can say yes to the next, but peace for me means learning to be ok with that. Fighting the body and it’s limitations don’t end up serving me. Fighting the heart and it’s desires don’t serve the me I can be either. So finding that balance, some softness, and trusting in the unfolding Grace I think...

As someone who wants to live full out and also has a seemingly compromised body that I want to do my best to take care of, I sometimes find myself in a place of frustration, disappointment, or regret. I do my best to walk a line of going for it and respecting the needs of this vessel that I live with, but sometimes either I go too far, or maybe Life is just happening, and the body breaks down. This morning, I came up against this familiar place. However, I was able to pause in the midst of it, and find my way back to where It All comes from. A place of gigantic Existence that is nothing less than God (Love/Light…) being expressed in its many forms. This, this Existence, is not changed or diminished by what is physically happening with my body or the emotions, judgements, or fears of my mind. I can bring all of what I feel back to This, let it be seen, held, and absorbed,...