Wednesday, March 5, 2014


You-Shaped Hole
by Tara Mohr

This poem came to me via a yoga retreat my daughter attended. The author & motivator is Tara Mohr. If you're looking for additional inspiration, visit her website at TaraMohr.com. I highly suggest reading her "Ten Rules for Brilliant Women." With permission I share her poem with you. 

You-Shaped Hole

Sometimes the world feels inhospitable. 
You feel all the ways that you and it don’t fit. 
You see what’s missing, how it all could be different.
You feel as if you weren’t meant for the world, or the world wasn’t 
meant for you. 
As if the world is “the way it is” and your discomfort with it a problem.
So you get timid. You get quiet about what you see.
But what if this? What if you are meant 
to feel the world is inhospitable, unfriendly, off-track
in just the particular ways that you do? 
The world has a you-shaped hole in it. 
It is missing what you see. 
It lacks what you know. 
And so you were called into being. 
To see the gap, to feel the pain of it, and to fill it.
Filling it is speaking what is missing. 
Filling it is stepping into the center of the crowd, into a clearing, and 
saying, here, my friends, is the future. 
Filling it is being what is missing, becoming it.
You don’t have to do it all, but you do have to speak it. 
You have to tell your slice of the truth. 
You do have to walk toward it with your choices, with your own being.
Then allies and energies will come to you like fireflies swirling around 
a light.
The roughness of the world, the off-track-ness, the folly that you see, 
these are the most precious gifts you will receive in this lifetime.
They are not here to distance you from the world, but to guide you 
into your contribution to it.
The world was made with a you-shaped hole in it. 
In that way you are important. 
In that way you are here to make the world. 

In that way you are called.
Energy Bars

tweaked from Amy Choate & Natural Philosophy
who adapted from Emily Petty

 


1 1/2 c quick oats or gluten-free oats 
1/2 c raw sunflower seeds
1/4 c chia seeds
1/3 cup coconut flakes (I used small flakes)
1/3 c mini non-dairy chocolate chips
1/2 t powdered vanilla
pinch of salt
1/3 c organic raw agave syrup
1/2 c natural peanut butter

Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl. Add wet ingredients.
Mix first with wooden spoon, then if you feel inspired, use your hands.
Press batter firmly into an 8 x 8 glass pan.
Refrigerate for a few hours, then cut into bars.

Notes:
Amy uses sprouted, then rolled oats, sprouted & dried sunflower seeds & pink salt. Those are the main differences.
I had run out of sunflower seeds, so I used half seeds & half small walnut pieces. You can also add raisins, craisins, omit the chocolate chips or just about anything goes.

Amy & her husband own our local yoga/Pilates studio. Natural Philosophy offers an airy & uplifting environment with a variety of classes throughout the week. An organic food store sits below the studio. 
1st yoga class is free - check it out at:
155 Church Street in Logan
435-213-3585