{"id":6821,"date":"2023-08-14T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:10:46","slug":"the-gift-of-sayulita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/the-gift-of-sayulita\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Sayulita"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sayulita is the gift of presence.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She is the hearth of the feminine.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She whispers in the language of body, heart, and soul.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I feel a belonging here. A life force energy.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It pulses in her natural beauty, in the people and community, in her small, but mighty size.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are no big-box stores.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are only dirt roads and cobblestoned streets.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thick jungle, hidden beaches,<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>and everyone has a name.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>From the vendors to the waiters, to the grocers and the music makers, they are always the same.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>What a treat to live somewhere so small, you can walk from one side to the other in thirty minutes. What a treat to live somewhere where everyone knows everyone; where you can walk downtown in your pajamas for a vegan, gluten free chocolate mousse and have five different conversations in English and Spanish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I am nurtured by this place; by these people.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Friday Market.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning sound healing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A bustling plaza.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Surfers and street performers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cute caf\u00e9s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cocos fr\u00edos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tacos and Chiles rellenos.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And the playa.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mother Earth herself.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The sun that always shines and sets, sinking into the sea; the masterpiece of every morning and early evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There is no rushing. No hurrying. No need to get anywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Just the necessity to be here, with and of, this moment.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2022 Kayla MacArthur<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayulita is the gift of presence. She is the hearth of the feminine. She whispers in the language of body, heart, and soul. I feel a belonging here. A life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sayulita-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sayulitalife.com\/sayulero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}