Completely Free In My Body......
We are once again sitting on our balcony, the cicadas are chirping, the waves are lapping, the sun has gone down and we once again have the vision of the Piton rising in magnificent, still, powerful energy in front of us…
Before the sun set we swam again in the Atlantic ocean, its volcanic properties here cleansing us at the deepest level, the water gets very deep very quickly; the volcanic shelf drops dramatically, and the sea is inky black, when we dolphin dive down, nothing to be seen…
This morning three boys jumped into it, from at least 50 feet up off the cliffs beside us. They leant their beautiful lithe bodies backwards a bit, and then took a running jump!
Later they were sprinting up and down the beach inspiring me now to do the same…
‘Lets sprint on the beach’ I said to Anadi as we bobbed about in the sea with the sun dropping rapidly… we clambered and slid up the steep sandy bank out of the sea and then raced from one end where there is a sign saying ‘be a good citizen’ - referring to keeping the beach tidy - to the other end about 150 yards away, were there was a boat called, ‘So help me Lord’!
We raced back and forth, it is a space I am in touch with an aspect of me that is completely free in my body, racing, racing, no thought, but to reach the boat… ‘So help me lord’!!
When I see the ‘racing around’ thing, which is very prevalent here; the ‘thing’ that that I spent my childhood days doing; I am inspired to keep that mobility, agility, flexibility, speed endurance; spirit of the race, freedom of expression, within my being… Me in motion!
For me, they are aspects that mirror in my life, the mobility and adaptability to keep changing location, and to be where I am now, here… The flexibility to adjust to bend and to stretch in different situations, cultures, relationships, the endurance to keep going, to pace myself to keep going with energy, and to be present in each step and yet committing fully to the pace that is required and being still, there, here, now!
And freedom within the pace, the race, the journey, the thought, which is all this is, a thought… The freedom to enjoy the creation, this thought and to have fun within this paradigm and all we create.. And to trust that all that is required is to be still, being ourselves, in motion!
As we raced along a fitness instructor taking a class on the beach stopped and watched us go by…
‘Use you arms, use your arms; go go go’ and we raced faster…
‘We are going to get so fit’ I said… as we sploshed laughing and joyous back into our healing balm; the Atlantic ocean
Today we had a plan that we would trek up Gros Piton; so we made our way to the base and were greeted by a lady who wanted us to write our names down and to give us a guide…
‘It’s okay, we don’t want a guide’ we said. ‘We’d just like to be together and to walk alone….’
This was not to be, they didn’t want us to go alone, they didn’t want us to get lost, and they did want us to go with a guide… and they were not going to let us through…
So, as we were hungry, we had a delicious chicken sandwich at ‘base camp’, and then instead of going up, we went for a walk down, down, down, between the two pitons, which were rising either side of us, to a beautiful bay…
‘This is the steepest hill I have ever walked down’ I said to Anadi… ’Which means’, he said, ‘that it will be the steepest you have walked up’!
It was a basic road winding between palm trees with the pitons either side of us; it was magical and peaceful and I was glad to be on our own trek down instead of going up…
I loved our change of plan; I loved talking and being alone with Anadi…
We then discovered an amazing coffee house where they do the entire production process themselves; from growing, picking and drying the beans, to eventually bringing it to us to our coffee cups in steaming deliciousness…
It was a magical cup of coffee.
It has been another magical day…
