During the month leading up to my 71st birthday, I immersed myself in putting my house in order - new flooring, clearing space of no longer useful stuff and reorganizing closets.
Then, for a week, I reflected on this past year which was spent primarily healing from open heart surgery, easing on into a daily walk and developing a Qigong practice.
After spending my 70th birthday alone, the year was then scattered with significant memorable and precious social events. None of these held the power of my experience each event was to me. I faced the challenge of choosing the most significant event of my 71st year on earth.
Unnable to choose a significant event, I turned to searching among the present seemingly endless turmoil and need for change in the world, I focused on the space probe to Pluto as a sign that perhaps the truth, in all that is happening, might become clear in a way that present contradictions are addressed with resolution.
Finally, every time I traveled to a retreat or conference, my heart protested, threatening to give up on me for trying to give my life to a cause or project or even leading a workshop. So, I finally listened to my heart's call to enter a reevaluation and regrouping mode, preparing for living perhaps in an emerging new paradigm.
About to close the door on reflecting on this last year, I was gifted with a reminder that the event that holds the significance of the year is important. I gratefully thank Evelyn Philbrookfor raising the questions for me to answer. She motivated me to deepen my reflection and complete the process.
I traveled to my favorite space and time in Higher Self, bringing the questions with me. Here is the result:
After spending my 70th birthday alone, the year was then scattered with significant memorable and precious social events. None of these held the power of my experience each event was to me. I faced the challenge of choosing the most significant event of my 71st year on earth.
Unnable to choose a significant event, I turned to searching among the present seemingly endless turmoil and need for change in the world, I focused on the space probe to Pluto as a sign that perhaps the truth, in all that is happening, might become clear in a way that present contradictions are addressed with resolution.
Finally, every time I traveled to a retreat or conference, my heart protested, threatening to give up on me for trying to give my life to a cause or project or even leading a workshop. So, I finally listened to my heart's call to enter a reevaluation and regrouping mode, preparing for living perhaps in an emerging new paradigm.
About to close the door on reflecting on this last year, I was gifted with a reminder that the event that holds the significance of the year is important. I gratefully thank Evelyn Philbrookfor raising the questions for me to answer. She motivated me to deepen my reflection and complete the process.
I traveled to my favorite space and time in Higher Self, bringing the questions with me. Here is the result:
A road trip up through Georgia with Dick Umble to North Carolina. There Dick reconnected with long time friends and colleagues, Bob and Diane Wallace. They live on the top of what seemed like a cliff to me as we wound back and forth taking hair pin turns, back and forth for 2.8 miles taking 45 munutes to get to our destination.
The whole trip up the "cliff" and especially back down was both exhilerating and terrifying. The visit was delightful. Their remodeled home from a cabin into an architectural wonder is unforgettable. The trip down the "cliff"to go out for dinner and back up in the dark with Bob Wallace driving as he had so many times was actually relaxing and enjoyable. The Fall leaves were breathtaking. And not traveling alone was so refreshing an experience.
We left the Wallace paradise and treked to the ocean to Kure Beach for a visit with my niece and her husband, two sobs, and mother for a real family weekend.
Regarding the promise I claim for the next year on earth? I have several intents which I have chosen needing further reflection. The one which is a promise I make to myself is to pursue the path of energy healing with further development of a Qigong practice with my intuition eyes and ears open to the way I will give myself fully to this for the next twenty years or so.
I hold this promise with an image of wearing new dancing shoes - or in this case sandals.
Shall we dance?
The whole trip up the "cliff" and especially back down was both exhilerating and terrifying. The visit was delightful. Their remodeled home from a cabin into an architectural wonder is unforgettable. The trip down the "cliff"to go out for dinner and back up in the dark with Bob Wallace driving as he had so many times was actually relaxing and enjoyable. The Fall leaves were breathtaking. And not traveling alone was so refreshing an experience.
We left the Wallace paradise and treked to the ocean to Kure Beach for a visit with my niece and her husband, two sobs, and mother for a real family weekend.
Regarding the promise I claim for the next year on earth? I have several intents which I have chosen needing further reflection. The one which is a promise I make to myself is to pursue the path of energy healing with further development of a Qigong practice with my intuition eyes and ears open to the way I will give myself fully to this for the next twenty years or so.
I hold this promise with an image of wearing new dancing shoes - or in this case sandals.
Shall we dance?
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