I realize this is a few months after the fact but I have been meaning to write this post but am only now starting to understand the world of Steemit! So, my apologies!
2018 was my second year of attending Anarchapulco. The first year, it did shake me awake from the seminars that I did get to see but this year truly opened me up...mind-body-and-soul.
Not only is it easily one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to but waking up every single morning and walking down to the Starbucks in the hotel lobby, waiting on the 30 person line to get a single cup of coffee is beyond worth the wait. And it's worth that wait because you're waking up with the luxury of being surrounded by your tribe, your people. The ones who get it. I walk around normal life back home and pretty much anywhere I go, I often feel like I just don't fit, like I'm a square peg trying to fit into a round hole...but not in Acapulco. In Acapulco, I can walk up to anyone and feel the electric energy and the passion that is floating in the air as they talk about how their latest idea about how to stop sex trafficking by integrating the blockchain or how they woke up by reading a book written by Ron Paul, or how before bitcoin, they created their own currency and traded it around a small town in Colorado. Every encounter was lively and beautiful and a feeling of belonging washed over me. Every corner of the resort, I made a new friend or connection. This year was all about wellness and feeling good on the inside so you can do good on the outside. There were ceremonies of cacao, ayahuasca, and kambo. There was sunrise yoga and sunset yoga each day of the conference, fresh juice available every day as well as a satellite food stand featuring our favorite Acapulco restaurant, Verde Vegan run by our friends Gustavo and Amparo. The speeches were top notch, the parties were amazing. We even experienced an earthquake right before Ron Paul took the stage which is only fitting because my whole world shattered down around me after I read and researched Ron Paul.
I am so grateful to be involved in this community and can't wait for Anarchapulco 2019. A special thank you to Nathan Freeman who always takes such good care of us in even with all his chaos as Chief Cat Herder. Each year, this conference is getting bigger and better and I can only imagine what next year will bring.
