We Are All One Family...!
Today we ran to a waterfall.... There was a signpost on the main road that said 'Latille Waterfalls' and so we followed it...
The road ran between the banana plantation. They are growing in large blue bags, allegedly to protect them from any animals that might make them look less than perfect; the UK will not accept them as imports with any marks on, they must be smooth and yellow all over... This commercial rule is incongruent with the scenes we witnessed today... The local people arriving to work in the fields, the women walking along the roadside with big whicker baskets laden with bananas balanced on their heads...
The road wound its way through the fields of bananas and up - a lot of up - until we happened upon the waterfall... It was so beautiful. I wanted to drink from the clear, gushing, splashing water... Anadi suggested I didn't... 'It looks fresh, but we don't know its source...'
We carried on running up and up along the road, that soon became a dirt track... After running for four miles we decided that the effort involved, the heat and the steep climb was worth more than what the Garmin said! We turned for home...
We met a truck coming slowly up the bumpy track as we were running down... It was full of people - both inside and out, some balancing on the edge of the back of the vehicle, their brightly coloured T shirts billowing in the breeze...
They wondered at us being there and asked us where we had come from...
When we got home I did my new exercise sent to me by Greg. Distant healing and international support all rolled into one!
Greg has been invaluable to me over the past few years when I have been in trouble with injury. He is a very gifted body worker; not just because of his accurate diagnostic skills or his special skills to treat the whole person, but also because he is a truly gifted healer who is able to spark the bodies own healing ability.
I first met Greg on the Sussex Downs. We were both running and our paths crossed because we were going in opposite ways through a gate... I saw his shining light there and then, it shone from his whole being...
Not long after our first meeting our paths crossed again; I ordered a mint tea at the 'Station Cafe' where Greg was working some shifts whilst in the early stages of creating his now thriving and very busy practice 'Optimum Muscle Care'.
I felt moved to ask him if we would like to record a podcast. He agreed and the rest is history...
I have been 'concerned' about my right knee, which since my fall - nearly five weeks ago - is still a very odd shape! It is pointy! Like a Piton...
It doesn't hurt - as you may realise due to the amount of running I am doing. But it looks strange...
I have three places where the effects of the fall still show, my pointy knee, some thick scar tissue around my elbow and a still swollen little finger....
On a psychospiritual level it feels like it was a big 'shake up' when I fell... It accessed the old 'pulling the plug when under pressure' deep wound which I spoke about in my blog then... Ever since it has felt like the miss-shapen bits of my body have been evidence of old pain arising to be cleared... The space I have had here in St Lucia has allowed this...
The fall shook it all up; and now it is releasing through the physical where it is showing up in bumps and lumps...!
It felt good to turn to Greg, Anadi took photos of my knee and Greg gave us 'tests' to do to establish what is going on and emailed some photos of exercises to help me along... And I am reassured...
On our way 'home' today from our 'mini break' in the South of 'This Island in the Sun', we decided to stop off for lunch in the Windjammer hotel... We spent our first night here as 'Man and wife' after our wedding day on Pigeon island last February... Just three months later (with none of us knowing the other had booked this same hotel) Greg and Hannah were married here...
We were shown to our table today, we ordered some drinks and decided a toast was in order...
'To Greg, Hannah, Josh and Leo - to the Funnell Family'... And we raised our glasses...
Thank you Greg for supporting me over 5000 miles away...
We are all one family!