Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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

7 comments:

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    1. Yeah. wow....I'm amazed my 'matter' isn't flinging out into the universe with all this twirling.

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  2. oh that dress is sweet
    and the advice was/is good

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    1. Thank you. I actually think of you as my mentor in all this swirling about. I used to think I could not hold 'it' together with so much activity, but actually I think the body is built for it. We are not nearly reaching or knowing our capacity to expand....

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  3. yes, you are twirling, but with positive momentum it seems. i like those x's and o's and the story of forging ahead in a new way. takes courage, you know.

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    1. Thank you Velma. Especially for the 'courage' part. ox

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  4. Here, here, to courage and more and moving ahead. I love the dress and the jewelry and your forge-ahead attitude. You are such inspiration to me. Coming back to explore the links and think more about BOTH/AND.

    xo

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