Your meditation must flow
into your daily life
And your daily life
must flow into your meditation
so that right action
becomes your first response
Liberation is not an escape
from reality
but a descent into it

Christi Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist by profession and a poet by passion. She enjoys trying to put to words to that which is wordless and give voice to the dynamic and wild spiritual journey called life. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Grace. She loves the outdoors and meditating in the early mornings which gives rise to her poetry.