Amazing thing just happened. I wrote the post below BEFORE I checked in with Sunday Scribblings to see what the prompt was for this week. To my wonderment, the prompt is exactly what I was writing about without even knowing! So here goes:
Last night I went to see Loreena McKennitt with a friend. What an amazing concert. Her voice is like a slice of heaven. The instruments were gorgeous and amazing as well. I'm inspired to get out my hand drums this weekend and dance around.
I face this weekend with some mixed feelings. For the first time in such a long while, I don't have any real plans. I'm just sitting with this feeling of restlessness until I work through it. There are so many things I have neglected at home for months now. I am kayaking on Sunday and getting a good session in at the Sweat Lodge. By all intents and purposes, this should be a very good weekend. I have the opportunity to get my art posted on Etsy. I have the chance to get on top of all the laundry. I have the chance to just close the door after my kids leave, open a bottle of wine and chill out. But I still feel unsettled. Restless. There is a gypsy in me that wants to get out and dive in to every corner of the world to meet new people, taste new foods, see new sights and sleep under the stars in some remote area. Today I find myself pondering how I can find the balance between free spirit roaming and rooted "have to be here to raise my kids in one place". Last night, Loreena McKennitt talked between songs about how her research of Celtic tribes led her to a train ride through Siberia, hiking in Spain and travelling with a nomadic family in Morroco for a year. That's just to name a few. I couldn't help but sit there in the audience fantasizing about that freedom of travel. Wondering what it feels like to have no real "material" roots and only your soul.
The path that the Universe gives us is so deep and mysterious. Sometimes you have to come smack up against weeds and detours. Sometimes you just walk on for miles of smooth stretches. I so desire to fully submerge myself in the journey. A "regular" job pays the bills and feeds the kids but is not my passion. How many of us really have the flexibility and financial freedom to trot around the globe whenever we feel like it? Some, but probably not many. This weekend, if time permits, I'm going to begin putting up pictures of places that I want to travel to. I'm going to put them in my special meditation area so that I can look at them all the time. It's not the same as packing a bag and buying the ticket, but it's a start......
Happy Friday!
Friday, April 20, 2007
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Cool, cool, so cool! Put up those pics of place you want to travel!
The infamous "SECRET" that everyone is obsessed with say to make something like that....a creative visualization board of sorts. With pics and tangible symbols of what we want in our lives.
I am starting one this weekend!
hee hee.
Please ignore my spelling errors.
It's Day 1 for me with NO COFFEE!!!!
It's a wonder I can write at all.
lol
What I do when I want to go somewhere I'm unlikely to really get to, is to go and see an obscure subtitled film set in some wonderfully exotic country.
again, this so resonated with me and how i feel .. when duke and i traveled to montreal in february, we met a woman at the train station who told us about her trip to paris. she had always dreamed of going and because of life (responsibilities etc) she just never did. she finally planned a trip and was surprised at how easy it all was ... she told us that we should just go ahead and do it, best advice ever.
of course, with work and commitments and money and and and it is never that easy but i'm starting to think that it isn't that hard either.
sigh. i want both really, the rootedness of home and the freedom of traveling on a whim and learning the rhythms of my breath. now if only someone would pay me for that ;-)
hope you have a wonderful weekend full of adventure and some relaxed home time :)
It's frustrating when you motor is running but the car has a flat tire, or something like that. Wanting to get out and go but not being able to do it kinda sucks. Hopefully you can create some personal adventure on a smaller scale which will be rewarding. I'll be rooting for you as well to discover what that adventure might be.
Have a great weekend.
Is that called serendipity, dé-javu, or supercalifragilisticexpialodoscious?
Maybe just coincidence -- but very eerie indeed!
Enjoyed the read. Thanks!
--and so it goes--
...Rob
Just wanted to say hello. I'm a bit dull in the brains lately. I see every one of your encouraging comments and emails and love knowing you. Thanks for your support. I will need it more soon.
yes, it is a start...always a start.
Interesting thoughts...
The picture idea is a wonderful idea. I believe J.C. has an excercise in one of her books that uses that very idea. It's an active step toward what you want & it helps you to focus on what is important to you. One thing that worked for me was getting a bunch of magazines and just cutting pictures and words of random things that appealed to me...open to all possibilities of delight with pure abandon and no control in what you are choosing...if you have a lot of energy, there could be many pictures...the goal is to enjoy the process or the seeking journey you are on...but when you take a minute to look at this pile you've created, you will see a pattern of all the things on the path of what you want and deserve...then carefully, as you would build a painting, you add your brushstrokes (pictures & words) and you create a collage "wheel" of what you want to create for your life. It is this pure intention that drives you (wheel-ha-ha) toward your goals, and when you are done it's your creative art piece for the day...it's pretty cool! May your journey have many daisies and beauty to experience along the way my friend.
Good morning all of my lovely friends! Thanks for the encouragement!! Being the pack rat that I am, I'm going to pull out my old magazines this weekend and start cutting!! I may even hit the mother load by stopping by a travel agency during my morning errands and get a bunch of exotic brochures to places unknown!!!! Happy Saturday :))
love lorenna mckennitt! i bet she was amazing in concert. i can so relate to the feeling of wanting to travel and roam and experience new things. i too struggle with having to pay the mortgage, etc but wanting to feel more free. i love your idea of putting up images of what you want to create. i bought a bulletin board a while back to create a "vision board." maybe it's time for me to start working on it. thanks for the inspiration!
I love your post and really enjoyed browsing your blog!!!!
ah, to travel. We do, we just bring the boys with us, the problem is we do it for work. Not much fun in that. I can relate to the 'freedom'.
How funny that you were already thinking about these things...
I do this all the time. I loooong to travel. Looooooonnng for it! But life is happening everyday, and like you said, it is not easy with kids. But I also have been thinking that I would put up some pictures of places I want to see, and see if I can manifest a little travel in my life. ;)
hope it works for both of us!
:)
I used to do that a lot--make collages of goals. I would tuck them away and forget about them, but it was amazing how, when I found them years later, some things were pretty much exactly as I wanted them to be. I do believe there's power in showing the world what you want!
You'll never get there unless you imagine it, dream it, plan it. So good luck with setting your plan in motion.
I've found that I love to travel . . . and I love to come home again. I want a healthy balance of both.
My blessings are posted, as well. Hope you'll stop by.
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