The Julia Rose
Anadi and I woke to shining autumn sunlight, glinting through the trees and on the dewy fields, lighting up the day in magical beauty....
As I ran I was reminded of the miles and miles I have covered here in these lanes and around this glorious parkland....
Yesterday I saw Ange... We were together in Spain only a few weeks ago, and now we meet in Buxted. We spent many hours together here fifteen years ago; walking by the lake, drinking Cappuccino in the lounge, seeing spring and summer, autumn, winter, the seasons all year round - while we walked and talked and drank our coffee....
We have seen each other through different 'lives' - I have watched her children grow, marking the passing of time...
The passing of this time that we invest in, making meaning too.... The life passage from birth to death...
How do we spend it, what do we hope for...?
We watch the adults before us and model ourselves on their example, but often they do not truly know the way themselves...
And so perhaps we can make it up ourselves now?
Life has never offered so much freedom, so many possibilities and yet humans still get stuck with 'supposed tos' and 'oughts' and 'shoulds'...
Taking control of our life is about making choices and decisions that truly support us... Rather than following a script that may not work for us at all because it is based on what everyone else is doing or saying... Or what 'conventional wisdom' says we must follow...
Being invited to have a guiding role in the lives of others, has shown me that there is no 'set way'... Every one of us is unique, and our inner workings are all different...
The stories we tell are often similar, the stuff we get trapped in, the tension and the issues, can be the same - which ironically can trap us into thinking this is who we are...!
But the truth of who we are is different and vibrant... Each of us a spark of stardust, as different as every snowflake that falls onto this earth from the sky...
So why ever would we try and model ourselves on others? Unless what we see resonates with our own soul, and stretches us to be ourselves in greater and greater expansive expression...
Relationship in its ideal is a place of growth, a place to share in the space between...
The more we offer and the more we put into the space between us, the more synergy occurs... The mix of energies is magical, and it can double and multiply and we can part enriched, and more than we were before...
This evening Alison brought me a 'Julia rose' from her garden...
I met her on the steps of Buxted Park, with the sun setting behind the trees...
Both of us through the portal, meeting the other side of Facebook world!
It was such a delight to be with her again....
The Julia rose symbolic of love connection and potential naughty ness...!
We have hatched a plan to meet one day at Edinburgh airport at the bottom of the down escalator...
We will then run up it as an initiation into the spirit of naughty....
