Christine Blair has never backed down from a challenge. From Hawaii to the Air Force she has always wanted to do what needed to be done no matter how much work it took. She shares her journey from yoga to traveling the country after quitting her job and downsizing everything she owns. There are plenty of gems 💎 from Christine. Aloha! 🤙🏽

Christine's poem: 

I've touched the ocean

Inside myself

So many times

I can't recall them all.

I've waited on shores 

Looking out, 

Looking in, 

Looking out 

For the courage to take

The first step into

The wide open blue

Take up all the spaces that are

No longer me 

And deliver them to the deep,

It will. 

No one can know

But I'm asking anyway, 

"What's on the other side of this? 

What must be given over? 

And, how long will it take?"

Have you noticed the brave ones

Cliff diving? 

They make it look so effortless. 

I wonder if pulling your knees to your chest like that

reminds you, 

only pain and contraction

Can birth you from a womb.

I'm here

Watching the tide 

Moving in,

Moving out,

Moving in. 

I feel like that hermit

Retreating back to his comfortable

But too small home. 

The ocean stretches out

It will force me to take up space, 

To kick and breathe and float 

and open 

and open 

and leave the heavy to sink. 

And open. 

But I'm not ready, 

I'm not ready just yet. 

Right? 

Departing becomes arrival, 

Becomes departing

And so it goes. 

And I have touched the ocean

Inside myself

So many times

I can't recall them all.

Soundbite credits :

E Ala E chant - https://youtu.be/niLvrlGpGRU

Temple bells - https://freesound.org/s/423401/

Coquis in the rain - https://freesound.org/s/214453/

Plane captain - https://freesound.org/s/465865/

Baby cry - https://freesound.org/s/211527

Truck brakes - https://freesound.org/s/192170/

Wind chimes - https://freesound.org/s/440929/

Music with poem "Time" - https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZFbXIJkuI1dVNWvzJzown?si=TzlwV2TeRnWgk3HxKVQDxw&utm_source=copy-link