Que Paradiso!

We awoke slowly this morning and as I was about to grab my yoga mat, we saw our amigo on a boat headed directly towards our hotel...wakeboarding! He had advised us before we left, so we brought a wakeskate to the lake from home. One of the young boat drivers named Pancho was excited to take us out for a round. We brought a small rope from home, made a handle out of PVC pipe and made a float out of a plastic soda bottle...MacGyver style! I got to go first and it was unbelievable to be playing in such a gorgeous lake surrounded by volcanos! Michael went next, but the small PVC pipe broke right away and we had to jerry-rig another handle out of thick tubing used for siphoning gas-it worked! We didn´t get Pancho out there for a try yet because he was wearing jeans, but hopefully tomorrow. So fun!

Yesterday, we walked into town and bought a pineapple, green coconut for drinking, a mango and a few limes for $2. We walked down to the dock and enjoyed out feast in the shade. We have also been enjoying chocolate covered frozen bananas for a quarter each! Tastes like ice cream! We walked around the pueblo (town) and watched a local men´s league play soccer. It was a great match and pretty amazing that they were able to clear enough flat land to make a field since the town in nestled in the steep hills. Wandering around is like walking the steep streets of San Francisco. After a leisurely dinner at Los Abrazos again (green smoothie with local wild greens, avocado and banana and some guacamole with handmade corn tortilla), we walked down to the dock by our hotel and watched lightning over the volcanos while being surrounded by the lights of fireflies!! It is very beautiful and we send great blessings of GRATITUDE!!

Hasta luego mis amigos!! XO, Kelly Ordway

Viva Guatemala!!

Well, I finally figured out how to sign back into my blog, but uploading the pictures might be a little trickier! Guatemala is warm and beautiful here at the lake. Yesterday was overcast, which was actually perfact for walking around to explore a new town. We came here to San Pedro to start because our friend is here for a few months running a hostel. It took us 3 planes, a taxi, a bus and a boat, but everything went smooth! Alas, we are Lago Atitlan, surrounded by coffee plants and volcanos! San Pedro is an interesting town. The Buddha Bar is covered with Om symbols and a big Buddha statue. It is also covered with young travelers drinking booze and smoking weed on the roof....hmm. We are told you can go into one of the hotels, ask where the party is in Spanish and they will sell you cocaine in the back room. It is a party town indeed, but it is also a lovely town of beautiful Guatemalan women carrying huge baskets of fruit on their head and sweet smiling locals. A short walk from the hostel, a young women pulls a makeshift electrical cord from her home to the corner to fuel her Jack LaLanne juicer!! No greens here, but she makes great carrot/orange juice. I carry it back to the palapa to mix with my Spirulina and Vitamineral Greens to start the day. That is followed by fresh local papaya or mangos. Paradise for me! I have been surprised at the beautiful clean salads I have been able to enjoy. It seems that mango season has just replaced avocado season, so we have yet to enjoy guacemole!

Today we are packing up to stay in San Marcos for a few days. It appears to be on the opposite spectrum of this town, as its focus is yoga and meditation. Yesterday we took the boat there for the day and found a place called Los Abrazos, which means hugs. This creative man from the states scuplted these beautiful seats where you are being embraced by a Mayan or are in the wings of a condor or eagle. The heads of the birds are fire ovens where they make pizza every evening. They have cacao there, imported from Oaxaca, Mexico and the local woman who owns the place made me an amazing Mayan cacao drink that was like hot chocolate, only not too sweet and made with real cacao...the kind that opens your heart he says! It was amazing!! It is more lush and green over there and we had lunch by the lake next to the garden where they grew the greens for my salad. My bowel movements are a bit off in their color, but overall, my tummy is doing really well. We have been taking our proboitics and digestive enzymes! I am excited to share photos, but will wait until I have more time to figure out how to do that! I love you my family and will connect again when I get the opportunity!!

Share the love and peace in your heart! XOXO, Kelly O

Inspirational blog comment and INFINITE POTENTIAL

I got this message from some friends who are traveling right now. How is this message for inspiration?!! I continue to be amazed at how much we continue to inspire and uplift one another. Thank you for inspiring me!!

HI Kelly, We've been keeping up with your blog since you've been on the Juice Feast & we can't thank you more for the inspiration you have embedded into us. We've been on a "life" tour for our bodies & have become stronger, leaner & wiser about the things we put into our bodies. What a joy it is to feel good & gracious for the body that God has given us. Presently, we're in Bishop, California (Sierra Mountains) where our hearts are one with nature. So far we have been on a raw foods diet, occasionally having an Ezekiel Tortilla or some beans, but mainly only the goods that have been blessed with the sun's giving love. I've dropped 6 sizes since I last e-mailed you & I FEEL AWESOME! We have 6 more weeks here in Bishop before heading back home to Montana (very excited to come home) and we're living, loving & dancing our lives into a beautiful reality of the way it should be. Thank you!

This next sharing is from Amorreah and Kerrie Dancing Butterfly from The Light School. You can check them out at www.theLIGHTSCHOOL.com

INFINITE POTENTIAL

We stand here now, with the freedom to explore the expansive territory of our infinite potential. As time unfolds, we are much closer to realizing that we are the Designers of the Map, that Time's great spiral destiny is unraveling through humanity's devotion to Illumination. It is becoming lucidly clear that illuminating the Self is 'Prime Directive' and interwoven with illuminating the Planet. Our personal evolution is not only inseparable, but absolutely critical, to the Earth's awakening.

To cast no shadow is to become your own Light Source -- radiant, emanating Ambassador of the Great Central Sun -- no longer living off the light of others or hiding within the dark folds of the ego's secret delusions and agendas. The Earth speaks her intelligent request: "Clear your fields, align your intent and raise your vibration, so that our work together is impeccable and sent forth for the highest good of us all."

As we wake up to our soul's inherent design as Earth Steward / Light keeper / Healer, some of us are left bewildered at how we can possibly live up to the potential of this insistent message we hear from within. The seed of our Ultimate Embodiment has just begun to sprout through the layers of soil that have been gestating us. At times, it feels a daunting task to climb the spiral ladder of consciousness, outgrow limiting patterns, egoic comforts, fears, and self-doubt, to become a Divine Human, and to do it quick enough to 'save the planet' from the 'deluge of darkness'. Breathe deep and exhale here. Rest assured, the seed of your soul has a perfect timing mechanism of awakening, as does every other soul, along with the planet and communal consciousness. We are all perfectly interweaving, attracting the right inner and outer experiences to spark the continuum of our healing and awakening. Strengthening, honoring, and blissfully surrendering to our unique inherent gifts is all that is needed. To succeed collectively, we must offer unconditional support for each other's individual choices during this process.

For many of us, 2007 challenged the stability of our identity by unraveling our subconscious imprints and areas of our personality that are outdated for these accelerated times. We brought these to the surface by manifesting situations that would test the infrastructure of our being. We are in the dynamic recalibration that comes during times of crisis, and like a centrifuge, that which is not sound and integral to our Divine Axis must spin off. In 2008 this process continues, but also sees the blossoming of our infinite potential flowering open, as the sheaths of the bud yield to the explosive desires of our innermost being to receive the Light.

Aaah, yes! Beautiful words and vibrations. We are leaving for Guatemala tomorrow, so we'll see when I blog next. I enjoy sharing, so I imagine to be posting sometime this week, but first and foremost is time with my honey bunches of love, in LOVE!! Wishing you each breaths of pure Light!

XO, Kelly O

Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte

Jerry kitty is so content simply sitting in a box :)

You cannot transform anyone, not even yourself. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. - Eckart Tolle

Have you seen "Stroke of Insight" yet? I think this is such a beautiful testimonial of life! Here's a short description, although it is about so much more than our brains...

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Click here to check it out!! What did you think?

I made raw burgers and raw ketchup this week from Living Cuisine, by Renee Underkoffler. I made the Lower East side Patties recipe and they were Yum! The base was broccoli, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. The leftover patties kept well in the fridge and were a yummy protein snack in the afternoon. Do you have her book? Amazing! Try the Chocolate Mousse Pie with Vanilla Cream Frosting! Even my conventional eating friends say it is the best dessert they have ever had!



It is an absolutely gorgeous morning here today! It is cold because the sky was clear last night, but it's so nice to see the blue skies! I chanted my way to the mailbox early this morning with our dogs (our driveway is 1/4 mile long and shared with 5 other neighbors!) Tomorrow is my 33rd birthday! Happy Birthday to me! I'm happy to be feeling youthful and healthy and to be surrounded by such amazing family and friends...very, very grateful! My mom and ma-in-law just returned to my parents place in Tucson after sharing a week together at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center. It's the 1st time they have done something with just the 2 of them and they loved each other's company! It sounded like a blissful week of enjoying raw food at the cafe, joining Gabriel Cousens for the evening meditations and walking the labyrinth. What a lovely way to spend Spring Break! No case of the nightmarish in-laws here!
HAVE THE BEST DAY EVER!!! XO, Kelly Ordway

Pumpkin Mylk Tapioka and Moon Cycle

Looking forward to walking on a beach again! This was several years back in the Bahamas.

Blessings sweet lovelies of the world!! I don't know if you read the comment from Carrie the other day, but gave me this delicious recommendation...

Hi Kelly, If you're into pumpkin seeds, and trying chia seeds, try this: make a pumpkin seed milk (just like almond milk), and then toss in a few Tbs of chia seeds to soak overnight in the fridge. With a little honey and vanilla, you've got an amazingly nutritious tapioca drink. I had it for breakfast every day for a while in the fall when I figured out that could exist!

Oooh lala, baby! This is one tasty treat! I didn't use a recipe, but this is my best educated guess..

Pumpkin Seed Mylk
1 cup pumpkin seeds (soak for atleast 4 hours, then rinse and drain)
2 cups water
1 inch of Vanilla Bean
1-2 Tbsp Honey


Blend and savor the delish froth! Pour into a pint jar. Add 1-2 Tbsp Chia seeds and leave in fridge overnight. Awake the next morning to sunshine out your window. Practice yoga with your favorite local teacher and then enjoy your delicious, well-deserved treat!! This drink also felt REALLY good inside my body. Nourishing, easy to digest and also the chia seeds made it feel quite filling.
p.s. Seeds are easier to digest than nuts and mylks are the easiest way to digest nuts/seeds. Moon Cycle.. I just began my menses again, in rhythm with the full moon! It had been 2 1/2 months since my last and I am happy for it have returned. I wasn't too worried about it, as this has happened before when I was so active playing soccer in college and my body fat was very low. This obviously happened again with my body fat going low in the cleansing physiology of my Juice Feast. I have gained a few lbs back and seem pretty stabilized between 125-130 lbs. This is a happy place for my body to be able to maintain my cycle. And, now I have an entire vacation with no menses!! Yahoo!! Please be aware that I was under-consuming a bit on my Feast- the last 2 weeks, I usually had 3 quarts a day rather than 4 or more. This was not on purpose, but simply listening to my body. I believe in the future, I might feel more apt to consume more on a Juice Feast and not go under my ideal weight.

I must go whip up some dipping sauce for spring rolls and salad dressing...we have some amigos visiting from Helena and we're making spring rolls and salad tonight!
Feel the Love! Kelly O

Preparing for Guatemala!!

Aaaah....chillin' in the hammock with good friends! This picture is actually from Mexico a few years ago. I'm not into the cerveza (beer) anymore, but jugo (juice) y agua es muy bien!
The countdown continues and we are exactly a week away from our honeymoon departure! We actually got married this summer (on 07-07-07, after 7 years together), but wanted to wait for the winter to seek our sunshine vacation! Now, the beautiful volcanic lake of Lago Atitlan awaits our arrival! Tuesday is my birthday-I'm turning 33 years young and then we leave the next day... Happy Birthday to me...! I get lots of probiotics in my Vitamineral Greens, but wanted to really load up before and during our journey, so we are taking some capsules 2-3x/day now as well. We arrive in Guatemala City at 5 am, taxi to the bus station, bus to Panachel, then boat to San Marcos/San Pedro. I am visualizing calm waters, clear skies and an organic juice bar, where someone actually makes my juice for me...what a luxury!
What goodies am I going to pack?

• Bentonite clay- handy in the case of Montezuma's revenge or food poisoning
• Lavender essential oil - great for soothing over-sunned skin
• Thieves essential oil - tastes yummy in water and is an amazing anti-viral/anti-bacterial
• prunes and Smooth Move tea - just in case!
• soaked and dehydrated sunflower and pumpkin seeds - pumpkin seeds are anti-parasitical
• Chia Seeds - I haven't used these much yet, but want to check 'em out :) They ar an ingredient in Earth, which i add to my smoothies sometimes.
• Nori sheets - mmm... seaweed!
• Vitamineral Green and Spirulina
• Probiotics - I bought Kyo-Dophilus. David Rainoshek recommended Jarrow's, but they need to be refrigerated.
• maybe some raw food bars

Here's some info on chia seeds I got off Raw Food World:

The Chia Seed is an amazing food. For centuries many have used the seeds for a host of different reasons. Native Americans would take a pouch of seeds and a gourd of water on their trips. The seeds were their food source and taken with the water they would hydrate their bodies for endurance. When you hydrate the seeds in water the seeds shell opens up and absorbs up to nine times its volume in water. This then forms a gel, which is called Chia Seed Gel. The gel helps keep your body hydrated. The gel is also 90% soluble fiber, which is beneficial for your digestive track. People use the seeds when they are involved in sports or physical activities for endurance.
The seeds have twice the protein of any other seed or grain, five times the calcium of milk, boron which is trace mineral that helps transfer calcium into your bones, omega 3 and omega 6 which are essential oils for the body. They also have a very long list of valuable nutrients in them naturally. The soluble fiber in the gel forms a wall between carbohydrates and the body, releasing them slowly into the body. This has been found to be very helpful for people who have trouble controlling their sugar levels like Diabetics. Dieters love the seeds because it can be added to any food or drink in a ratio of 75% to the volume of food or drink and will not change the taste. Because the carbohydrates are released slowly you will get the feeling of being full. Many use the seeds as a way to control their appetites. The gel has no taste.

The best way to use the seeds is to take the seeds already hydrated so they will not absorb your own body fluids to hydrate. The seeds may be added to anything from water to juice and any food. Any age bracket could benefit from adding the seeds to their diet. Whether it is for physical activity, added nutrition, controlling weight or sugar levels, the seeds have been known to help all of these The most unique part is that it is only a seed, nothing artificial and the cost is minimal. You do not need too much protein or omega 3 and 6 so the maximum of the gel you will need is three tablespoonfuls three times a day of the gel. Once a day you may substitute one tablespoon of dry seeds in place of the three tablespoons of gel. Along with the seeds you will receive directions on how to make the gel and their nutritional values.
Directions for using Chia Seeds:
Put 1/3 cup dry seeds into two cups of warm water whisk, wait fifteen minutes, then whisk again then store gel in refrigerator. Use three tablespoons three times a day of the gel (seeds hydrated). You can mix them into any drink or food and may even just take the gel.



I think these goodies will help keep our bodies happy and nutrient dense. We are visualizing lots of gorgeous local fruits, guacamole, salsa and fresh juices. Not to mention, sunbathing, dancing, being immersed in another colorful culture, practicing my un-nurtured Spanish skills and celebrating our LOVE!! XOXO, Kelly O

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

7 Strange Things You Might Not Know About Me

Seven Strange Things You Might Not Know About Me

Gia from Science of Energy Healing has tagged me ! She wrote this about the tag...

In the land of blogs there is a tag game known as a meme. You write about something that someone has suggested (see the title above) and tag the person who tagged you and several more. It’s about building a bigger awareness for the blog through link love.

While I was putting this together, Poppy tagged me too! Here goes...

Hmmm...where to begin?

1. I was a competitive soccer player most of my life. I started playing soccer when I was seven and played pretty much non-stop through college. Living in Tucson, the warm weather was suited for year-round leagues, so there were only about 2 weeks every year that I wasn't involved with a team. I loved it!! My family was incredibly supportive, as our family vacations were often to soccer tournaments (there was plenty of mountain camping, Disneyland and San Diego beaches mixed in there too!). My dad was very active in this part of life, always finding me the best team to play on, helping with team administration, driving me to practice in Phoenix twice a week my senior year in high school after nearly my entire team graduated and went away to college and arranging recruiting trips for me to check out colleges. I was captain of my high school Varsity team. My club team was the 4th best in the nation in 1992. I played Division I NCAA soccer at Pepperdine University. I became captain of that team and had the most minutes played until I injured my knee the spring of my senior year. So, soccer has been a huge part of my life. Then, after college, I was ready to explore my time in other ways like hiking the mountains of Montana. I didn't play soccer for 3 years after college (partially because of my knee and partially due to other interests). Then, I played in the women's league here for a few years and had a blast. I had to re-train myself, coming from competitive collegiate soccer, that it wasn't cool to slide tackle teammates at practice!! Now, it has been several years again without playing regularly and that is fine with me-it seems to ebb and flow with joy!

2. I was married previously. My college honey bunches (Carl Lithander) and I got married the fall after I graduated from college up here in Whitefish. We went into the Peace Corps together that next spring. We divorced after 21/2 years and he died a year later (breaking his neck riding his bicycle). Life is such a trip! You just never know what twists and turns may be sent your way. I have a strong feeling that we will be journeying again together in another lifetime, or some other form of reality. We have communicated in the dream world, but it has been a long time.

3. I am fluent in Pidgin English. I was in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea for a year, where I learned the language. Carl and I went to the remote village of Uiaku to live with the Maisin people. We worked with Green Peace and Conservation Melanesia in an alternative income-generation project. We helped them sell their traditional clothing (tapa cloth) as artwork instead of selling their land to mining and logging companies. We lived in a bush hut, washed our clothes and dishes in the river (sand makes a good substitute for steel wool), and played a lot of cribbage! I went (as the only woman) with Carl and about 20 native PNG men deep into the bush on a bio-diversity survey. It is very likely that this was and will be the furthest away from civilization I will have ever been. A helicopter dropped us off in the middle of a dry river bed and after the last drop off, we all stared at one another and someone asked, "Now, where are we?" in Pidgin as he pulled out a map. It was amazing! We saw lots of wild orchids, a tree kangaroo, the world's largest moth (aptly named Goliath) and tried to keep the leeches from eating us alive. We arrived in our coastal village at the same time another village was being wiped out by a huge tsunami. We, of course, had heard nothing of it until we called my parents from the solar powered telephone and they were grateful we were alive!

4. I have seen both MC Hammer and Millie Vanilli in concert!!! Do you still respect me? (not to mention Wierd Al Yankovich, Rob Bass, Young MC (Bust a Groove...), Tone Loc, Huey Lewis...)

5. I really used to think I was going to marry Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys even though I had never met him. I have seen them in concert 5 times , once in a small club in London!

6. I changed my name to Kitty for a few weeks once while I took a road trip down the west coast. My amiga went by the name of River!

7. My husband is a hunter. So, along with berries, pears and bee pollen, our freezer is also full of moose and venison!

I'll have to catch up on tagging others on my next post!! xoxo, Kelly O