Thank you notecards

I like to make Thank you notecards instead of cards.  It saves paper and it also saves me from folding all of the cards.

Favorite JUNK Food- is actually super healthy

 Chili con Kale

Walnut Pate with Chipotle

My favorite JUNK food isn't junk food at all  but it tastes so good  it seems like it should not be good for you.  My new favorite place to eat is Choices Vegan Cafe.  I went there in November and re-visited last week and decided, "Yes, this is my new favorite place."  I wasn't one for spicy food, but I love the way the food is spiced here  and when I say spicy  I don't mean "hot".  The baked sweet potatoes still satisfy the old french fries cravings..  I think eventually I will stop ordering them, once I wean myself off.  The menu has changes and there are so many more options that I can have now.

Happy New Year 2012

This year offers quick change.  I have been very busy with the first edition of mborrerophoto.com magazine and today  I am working on the second edition.  I was putting together thank you cards earlier and later I am working on scrapbook layouts.  From moment to moment I change what I do,  inside I know that is also true.  I am very thankful in this moment  for all the things that have lead me to this moment.  I especially like to thank S.N.Goenka and all the people who volunteer at the Vipassana Centers  for bringing the road to enlightenment to the masses. I am still working on my meditation and I hope on returning to a center this year.  For those who have been looking  you may want to start here.

Meeting more enlightened people and vegans

The last two weeks have been interesting and I am not surprised because the New Year is right here, okay around the corner.  I have met people a few miles from my house  that practice Vipassana, and I have sat and meditated with them, I have met a person  who is on their way  to discovering Vipassana and I met a Vegan who is raising her son from day one as a vegan.  I am thankful for these moments.

New vegan restaurant in town

Interior back seating

Almost all raw vegan cookie

California Wrap

Spicy Walnut Pate

Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Choices Cafe  in the Brickell Area of Miami is now occupying the same space as the previous tenant of vegetarian and vegan fare, Om Garden  (more info see www.vegguide.org).  The food is good and priced right..definitely a must try.

Kind to the Earth :makeup tip

So..  I decided to ditch my store bought makeup remover.  There had to be something else  more inexpensive and better for my skin..  I found it in my kitchen.  I got my cotton square and poured my Olive oil on it and it worked fabulously.  Then I washed my face as usual,  and viola  clean face...no extra money..and it doesn't take much on the cotton square to remove mascara and makeup from both eyes.  Try it and tell me how it worked for you.

Vipassana Experience Part 6

In this video, I talk about the Vipassana "Voodoo" as I like to call it. Something interesting happened to me while I was there. I definitely noticed it. The energy...the nature really effected me.

Vipassana Experience Part 5

In this video, I explain, the time up to when I leave. It was a Mr. Toad's wild ride of sorts.

Vipassana Experience Part 4

Vipassana is seeing reality as it really is. During my experience I had heart palpitations that really shook me and took me by storm. I was unable to gain an equanimous mind during my course meditation because of this. Now I understand why visualizing doesn't work during Vipassana. Visualizing while meditating is relaxing, Vipassana is not about relaxing at all.

Vipassana Experience Part 3

Days 1-3. One of the things that I started to hear a lot after day three is that things can change fast and that accepting them.. not craving what you had in the past or want in the future is key to your success.