Reb Mari

It’s profound what can happen in the span of one year. It allowed me to press the reset button and answered prayers that I had been reciting – please give me the chance to reconnect to my deeper self. 5 years of running La Botanica had taken a toll on me, my adrenal glands were shot, my attention span and sleep were running at a all time low. Don’t get me wrong I knew the sacrifices I was making to create and hold a space as magical as La B. Just the other day I told my partner Amanda, even if and when we open up another La Botanica it will be different and we will always feel nostalgic for the first and original version of La Botanica. I know that for those of you who went to La B, ate the food, drank the drinks, danced under the stars you know what I am talking about. It was all of us that took that little corner of a space and made it radical and queer and revolutionary. For those of you who only have heard the stories and the rumors of it I am glad it will still lives in your mind in this original form. Like a first love or crush its not something you ever get over it, it lives in you forever. I know that on those days when we are feeling lonely, disconnected and unenergized we can go back to the memories of La B 1.0 and remember how we plugged in and nourished each other and draw animo from those moments to fuel our present. Our ancestors knew time wasn’t linear; that which happened then, happens now and will happen. I loved every inch of lot, I knew every crack and corner like it was my skin. Like so many things in nature we forced to shed that which was for that which will be. Thank you all for making La B magic, for loving and nurturing it with me. Lets do it again soon. Abrazos.