Sharing love

We've been eating about 98 % raw for the past week now. We can feel our bodies become more flexible, our reflexes enhancing, our skin detoxing in this dry air, stronger nails, increased emotional clarity and strength, and just an overall sense of love.
We've been focusing on how we can express and give our love to others, and we've been learning how we can open ourselves to receiving love from everything.

Over the weekend we went out of town to visit our grandpa and his new fiance and our uncle, his fiance, and our little cousin. The night we got there we went to a restaurant that had a vegan chef and a pretty flexible menu, so we were able to order a nice plate of veggies.  While we were waiting for the food, a few of our family members made a couple distasteful jokes about our "picky" diet and it made us feel uncomfortable and we felt we couldn't express for a little while. Sometimes it's hard for your family to understand when you only eat raw, and they see it as high maintenance, so it can sometimes be a difficult journey. But we learn so much and it's more than worth it.
When the food came we saw that the chef had prepared us each a beautiful platter of vegetables: carrots, cauliflower, fresh fennel, celery, brussels sprouts, radishes, and some nice greens, with two delicious dressings. This meal gave us so much energy and made us feel soo good! It was really inspiring to see how someone else prepared a meal of raw vegetables. And everyone at the table kept asking for tastes :)
The next day we went to a shop called the Healthy Grocer and we got a bunch of nice organic foods, which we made into a big meal for our family. Haha. We actually made way more than anybody could eat. We made curried green lentils and basmati rice and an asian sweet potato stew with a big colorful salad and citrus dressing. The curry and stew were cooked and very filling so we could not eat more than a couple bites, but everyone enjoyed them a lot.

We've started taking Isshinryu Karate classes with our best friend V. We've begun developing discipline and focus, as well physical strength and bodily awareness/balance. We've been realizing how important it is to get regular exercise no matter what you eat. Eating raw of course is helping us accelerate smoothly without much soreness the next day. We've been detoxing not only substances but "rational" thoughts and past patterns. It's been difficult and painful but it's helping us see beauty and love everywhere.
We have been volunteering at the Humane Society, where we pet cats and cuddle with them and send them love and healing energy. Life in a cage is really sad and must be lonely so we sometimes feel their emotions and come home feeling sad, sometimes even feeling oppression. It's also joyful and a blessing to be able to just be with them. And our kitties sense it too :)

we love you so much!
A and J <3