sufi…

this divine beauty is sufi…well sophie…but i call her sufi because she really is divine and she loves to hoop, and sufism is the mystical side of muslim spiritualism and they love to spin! i’m leaving shortly to go visit her on the eastern shore to help her prepare for her 1st marathon. we’ll be having a full on protein bomb sushi experience today.

in the photo above she is just completing her first 1/2 marathon. and this sunday she is running in her first full marathon in virginia beach. i am so impressed and so proud. she says she only does these distance races because she needs a goal, and in her heart she is really a couch potato (and she is from singapore so you need to say couch potato with a british accent to experience full-on sufi). this i have witnessed. that girl can curl up on the sofa with a book like no other.

in all of the possible ways you could imagine… she is my soul-sister, my anam-cara, a sweet, spiritual being with one of the silliest personalities. and yet at the same time she is serious, and driven. she has a doctorate in film, but she can laugh with me like a little girl, she joined an all-girl band last summer ~ dirt road bitch ~ and plays the banjo. not one single member of this band knew how to play an instrument when they started. but one of them had a dream, and they all joined up to support her. that is the kind of girl she is…caring and willing and experimental and solid. a mish-mash of beautiful contradictions…how it is that our souls found each other i’ll never understand. but we did and i love her very much.

sufi…i’m so proud of you for all your preparations for this race on sunday. run well…

lovelovelove!

p.s. picture by her hubby, erin!

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update: she did it! she finished. beat her previous 1/2 marathon time and ran her fastest 6 miles ever. she says she’s happy that most of her body parts don’t hurt, but she does have some sore illio-tibial bands today. yay sufi! a hero to all of the couch potato’s of the world! love you, girl!

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