10. Day 3: Home, Sweet Home
We arrived on New Year’s Day in San Fransisco after traveling for over seven weeks. I was never so glad to see a shuttle and slept the whole way home after partying rather late into the wee hours on our last night in the UK, New Year’s Eve. All the poetry, songs and anthems for home ring completely true after being away for so long. Even though we had a brilliant, lovely trip in every way, there is nothing quite like coming home. It is not that home is perfect exactly. There are leaves that need to be blown, furniture that was moved in the storm and office flooding to be...
Read More9. Day 31: Fear Not, LOVE Now, Fun Revealed
I am just waking up on New Year’s Eve in London, I received a “Happy New Year!!!’ message and happy faces photo from long time friends in New Zealand and my peeps back in California are not quite to bed on Dec 30. In a moment such as this it seems quite obvious that NOW includes both past, present and future. NOW is replete with everything everyone needs in any given moment, everywhere. Even without thinking of “spiritual” help or divine inspiration or guidance, the earth and all it’s inhabitants (the original Globe Theater!) when seen as one, do,...
Read More9. Day 30: Penultimate Joy
Today is the day before the day before our last day……it was our great joy to spend the day with a dear friend on his way home from Antwerp. I am so full of love, amazement and wonder after our day at the Victoria & Albert Museum that I can barely think or write. To have loved ones, beauty and time to enjoy both is heaven on earth. Suffice it to say the marvel, beauty, mass and variety at the museum scraped me clean of superlatives and even words. “Cusp of Eternity” I think I will never again need words in quite the same way More is another way of saying Here,...
Read More9. Day 29: What I Have Learned From Taking 7 Weeks Off
What have I learned from taking seven weeks off from our normal daily life? 1. There is no such thing as taking off from daily life. (life and the dailiness continues, just differently) 2. Life continues too, abundantly 3. The trip really began when we allowed ourselves to think it was possible (this began in intention over a year ago, in reality over six months ago) 4. It all started with this thought: We’d love to return to England. 5. We can only take off from our businesses because we have an incredible, trustworthy, capable team taking care of day to day business 6. I miss...
Read More9. Day 28: Joy Is Maintenance & Logistics
Have you ever noticed that no matter how fabulous everything is it all comes down to the basics of eating, resting and where the nearest toilet is. Just ask any event planner. We have truly had the most incredible trip in every way, AND we can still fall to bits in want of a toilet (or the 30 pence to pay to get in) or a drink of water or a place to sit down after miles of walking. Logistics is never sexy but always needed. Maintenance rarely makes it into budgets unless your accountant reminds you and yet this is what stands between joy and and utter discomfort and possibly misery....
Read More9. Day 27: 34 Years Of Living Joy
I never knew that one of my biggest “accomplishments” would be to have been married for a long time. I had an inkling this would be so at 10 years when we celebrated our anniversary in Quetta, Pakistan with Army friends from around the world. 10 years of marriage is quite the milestone, especially in the military. Then at 20 years we celebrated having only recently arrived in USA. At 30 years new friends gasp at our longevity as partners and perfect strangers offer congratulations and ask “How’d you do it?” It seems I have become an expert at something I...
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