Too much?....or MUCH MUCH MORE

It's been a busy summer, or rather a really busy end of the summer.....

This Summer after hitting wall after wall in the Spring,

 I finally feel I broke through some barriers.

I found a studio...

I moved...

a long personal separation ordeal (OK, divorce) moved closer to being resolved ...

and am excited to say.....

I'm in the process of buying a little place for myself.
(in that order)

I have traveled this summer in all directions through New Mexico.....
through the far dry east plains to Portales and Clovis for the New Mexico Historic Society conference,
to Silver City in the southwest to experience the Clay Festival,
to Taos to enjoy Chamber Music

and last weekend to Denver in the north for a Healing Touch regional conference...

and right now, for the next 7 weeks I'm taking an on line course with
Claire Zamett and Katherine Woodward called 'Awakening your Feminine Power'....
an amazing course of revelation and evolutionary thought

In September I'll be headed to Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, 

for a retreat with Joanna Powell Colbert......
and meet up with my beautiful friend Michelle

where I'll stay a few days longer and soak up the moist salt air...

and then head to Georgia O'keeffe country in Abiquiu and Jemez Springs here in
The Land of Enchantment

then in October, days after I sign the final papers on my new place,

 I'll head to Sunrise Ranch, north of Denver 

to embark on the 4th Level instruction of  Healing Touch practice. 

I'll return from that to immerse myself into my new space....

and try to fit the proverbial '10 pounds of potatoes into the 5 pound sack' again......

and I expect I'll be cleaning and painting and planning to move the rest of my 'stuff' I've had in storage for two years back in Michigan,

(and renegotiate the 'stuff' in my studio)

And through all this planning and pushing and moving and traveling and learning and evolving......

I've also been taking a small metals class where I rent a bench......

and 

have made

these...

chains and baubles and such...

All of this, by the way, courtesy of saying "YES",

"I will do this, I will experience this, I am open to this idea"

and trusting I will be shown the way...

I asked Jean Houston a question when I was in the midst of a struggle to leave my safe little casita in
Mountainair to move to Albuquerque......

from being a country mouse to a city mouse...

you see, I was afraid of loosing my connection with nature...

and she said to me the words she often repeats in response...

"The Answer Is: BOTH/AND and MUCH MUCH MORE, it is not EITHER/OR"

So this summer I am living the BOTH/AND

and

MUCH MUCH MORE