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“My mom is my inspiration. She can make me positive all the time and without her, I don’t know what I would do. We’ve both had tough times. My dad left, which killed us. I was probably 10, my sister was 7. She didn’t care much. It hurt because I spent a lot of time with my dad...it’s pretty hard to really expose how he left because it’s pretty bad.”
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Him - “We’ve lived in Costa Rica 40 years. I was living in a hippie commune in Oregon and I was making a trimaran sailboat. She showed up there and there we were. We finished the boat and sailed away.”
“What did it feel like when you first connected?”
Him - “Well our friends said they felt like the Earth shook. We were actually with different partners-”
Her - “-People assumed we were together right away before we were even sure about each other. We knew there was energy but we didn’t know what it was.”
Him - “So we finished the boat and sailed here. The area we lived in had no electricity, no phones, no bus, no tourism, no stores, no bridges, barely roads.”
Her - “Then we had 9 kids. We dove everyday and fed our kids fish...and coconuts. We ate leaves like the monkeys.”
Him - “Now we have 8 grandkids.”
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“I was a personal chef in the corporate world and television production for 30 years but when the economy went south in ’09 I had the rug pulled out from under me. It took about a year of unemployment and soul searching for me to figure out what I was gonna do. I ended up going to a short term cooking school in San Francisco and then a friend told me about Josephine and it was perfect. People come to me and I get to cook in my kitchen. I love my kitchen. That love is in the food."
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My friends, today is the 2nd annual SOULS of San Francisco day aka my 34th birthday!!
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Much love to all of you!
Him - “I’m taking her to dinner for her birthday tonight.”
“Where you going?”
Him - “Can’t tell you, I’m surprising her!”
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“How do you like to spend your free time?”
“I like to be close to nature and walk around. Also, I’m a designer and I love my work. My work could be my hobby too.”
"I'm working on a project called Whetstone. It's a forthcoming print magazine and web series on food origin and culture. The happiest I’ve ever been is volunteering at a high school garden in San Francisco. The students there were mostly underprivileged. Over the years there’d been periods of activity in the garden, but at that particular time it was defunct. I was tasked with helping with the restoration. One of the first things we planted there was radish. It’s resilient and grows quickly. Each day the students walked past the garden without much interest, so the sooner we could show examples of new growth, the more inclined they’d be to notice."
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"One thing I’m working on on a daily basis is to constantly refine my being. I can always be kinder and more patient. Even in my meditation not to rush. That relationship with time is my greatest challenge. I have a great relationship with time but there’s also an element inside of me of being really eager. I want to get on to the next breath, the next moment, the next experience, whatever it may be. To fully sit in that stillness is the greatest challenge.”
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“What kind of difference do you want to make in the world?”
“Make people happy.”
“How you gonna do that?”
“I don’t know, still figuring it out.”
“How do you make yourself happy?”
“Spending time with people I love…and food…and travel.”
“What brings you joy?”
“People who are unapologetic bring me joy. Being able to celebrate their true selves and not wanting to assimilate into what people’s expectations of them are. The black community brings me joy. There’s a global diaspora of people who look like me and can identify with similar lived experiences and I can go anywhere in the world and find some black people.”
“Music and food are my two big passions. Outside of just being with people. Food and cooking and eating are passions in my family. I just enjoy turning simple ingredients into a whole meal for all the senses really. Since I love cooking a friend told me about Josephine. I’m new in town so meeting new neighbors and getting plugged in is important to me. If we’re removed from where we are and who we’re living around it can be a pretty lonely experience. So Josephine was a bridge to not feeling isolated and getting to know people while doing something I love."
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“After being a nanny for 20 years my brother asked me if I’d want to take care of my two nieces so I said 'yeah' and moved across the country to help out. My nieces and I had a blast dancing, playing make-believe, and using our imagination, but unfortunately, his wife and I didn’t really seem to connect. She basically told me I had to get out. She kicked me out and I ran out of money and had nowhere to go. I found a homeless shelter but it was really for people that had been abused or were addicted to drugs and alcohol. There were kind enough to let me in.”
“There were a lot of responsibilities associated with the shelter. You had to do cleaning and community service, you had to get a part-time job and save 90% of your money. I had been diagnosed with PTSD and it got too overwhelming for me. I started feeling ugly and I found these poems I could relate to. Things like, ‘You don’t die from suicide, you die from sadness’. I wanted to get rid of the ugliness so I left the shelter, took the money I saved, got a hotel, and took a bunch of pills. I didn’t want to be me anymore. I was walking around the street that night a gal saw me and said, ‘Is this your first night on the street?’. I told her it was but I was getting really tired because I had already taken the pills. She asked if everything was okay and if she could stay and pray with me. She gave me her sweatshirts. I told her I took some pills and she called 911. I was in the hospital 3 days. Then I went into a mental hospital for a couple weeks. It was hard after that because I didn’t feel connected and the only way for me to survive is to be connected to something.”
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"What's your dream for 2018?"
"No idea, probably should figure it out...well I miss acting. If I could get anything it would be landing a pilot. The happiest I've ever been was when I almost landed a pilot."
“What’s one thing you’ve learned from him?”
“He taught me the deep power of patience, and allowance, and trust. The power of being present to somebody to allow them to express themselves and be who they are.”
“The last few days there’s been a spike in the shamanic resonance. The earth is constantly raising its vibration so it’s working on us too. Right now it’s more of the lower chakras, more of the eat, sleep, take care of yourself vibes. Slowing down is helping me to look at all parts of me and it’s like, ‘Accept these things too, the shadow self and all of it’.” (2/2)
“What’s one of you favorite things about her?”
Her - “He’s a weirdo with google docs. He had a google doc to plan out his diet. He’s very calculated…like this thing we were just talking about. Can I share this-“
Him - “No-“
Her - “Ok, he’s very practical and blunt about his level of rationality.”
Him - “I will accept all those things.”
“And you?”
Him - “Nisha has a charisma to her that’s really infectious. Being around her is revitalizing.”