We're Living it...
We are back from a day on sandy beach. It is a very long and as its name suggests sandy… It is right at the southern tip of the island and we covered five miles along its shoreline. There were not many people about, except for a family surfing on boards, and a guy kite surfing who we were concerned was in trouble…
We saw him set off, and then we saw him again further down the beach, with everything that was supposed to be flying, billowing around him in the water. He was in the water too and looked to be trying to get back to the shore, but progress was slow… We stood and watched for a while, and then signaled to him to check he was okay – a thumbs-up from him re assured us and we went on our way…
Two little twin boys leapt and jumped the waves, their mother was standing watching quietly from the bank, and then we happened upon a couple ‘bonking in the bushes’ at the very far end of the beach… It looked a lovely place to be, alone with the sound of the waves, the breeze blowing, no one to be seen… And then we appeared!
We turned away when we saw them – politely - to look at the view out to sea, the Atlantic ocean stretching as far as the eye could see, just sea; which came rushing in and crashing and swirling around our feet… On the end of a log a young boy practiced balancing on one leg like karate kid…
Anadi and I talked about our life, how it is unfolding, wondering at its movement…
We returned to our beautiful home on the top of a hill to be warmly greeted by John… As we turned to come upstairs to our room, he commented, ‘you guys are getting quite a tan…’ I laughed… ‘I am trying not to’ I said ‘I have factor 110 on my face and 70 on my body, but the sun still has its own way with me’!
Upstairs I opened up the document with my new book ‘A girlfriend for a year’ in it, and I have just come upon a section which reflects all Anadi and I were exploring this afternoon – I am enjoying reading the final draft alongside my friend Jeremy, who is proof reading it now, before I let it go out into the world to live its own life…!
Any act of creativity is a gift to the world; I have discovered that I am far happier when I offer my creativity to whomever would like to receive it; in whatever form it comes from me… for me this is usually in the form of running writing and healing… The more I am able to let it go into the world with no fear or attachment to how good it is or isn’t, the more I enjoy it… But whatever form our creativity takes, the more we trust ourselves and allow the flow through us, the happier we will be and the more fun will have with our gifts…
The part I have just read that reflects our conversation today is this… It was May 2013, Anadi and I had written down the dreams we had for our life together; it was just five days after I had committed to being a ‘girlfriend for a year’! We had only known one another for five months, and we hadn't even started living together...
This is what I wrote…
We wrote down our dreams – our individual dreams and our dreams of our lives together.
I wrote that I wanted to run and write and grow deeper in relationship with Anadi. That I wanted to be able to do handstands and cartwheels again and be free of any injury and pain in my body. That I wanted to trust which way my healing gift would take me.
Anadi wrote that he wanted to develop his software and for his work to create a sustainable, enjoyable business and way of life. To grow deeper in consciousness himself, and grow deeper in relationship with me.
And together we wrote that we would create an abundant life from the energy of our souls, not from our minds. That we would trust which way that would lead us: a life of conscious living’.
Wow – I have just said to Anadi listen to what I wrote two years ago…!
We’re living it…’!
