A Never Ending Dialogue...
The South Downs were at their most absolute shining, green blue, expansive fairy tale beauty. It felt at times like I was running along in a film set, with the green screen behind me. On it a backdrop imprinted and created to open hearts and minds and expand whoever was watching...
The sun was not only bright, casting its deep autumn light over the hills, but it was warm too...
Wends and I had woken in our grand bedroom, at the Grand Hotel, and I called room service to bring us some more Espresso pods for a delicious proper coffee...
We had an hour before i was leaving to run across Gildredge park to meet Rob and Jim; it felt fun for Wends and I be together, reminding us of the hours we spent chatting and drawing and painting in Wendy's bedroom when we were very young...
At 8.15am we left the building... Wends went for a walk along the seafront and I ran off to meet my friends....
I elected not to take my phone / camera, which I regretted a lot as I now have no record of my run to post here...
But the vistas and views were truly transformative... A limitlessness to the land stretching on and on, a never ending vision of possibility...
I felt fit, and I loved catching up with Rob and Jim... We ran for two hours, and carried on our conversation as if it were three days ago, rather than 3 months since we last met up... As we parted, we booked our next run together; it's in the diary.... And by then another 3 months will have passed....
The timelessness of the never ending conversation, one I began with them over ten years ago, and it continues in circles around the South Downs...
And what I notice in the main, is that the essence of all of us is more apparent... That as the years go by, we know one other more deeply, and there is a trust and truth, mainly born form our own self acceptance.
There is something about journeying side by side with our friends, whether that is actually as we run in circles, or metaphorically as the years go by, that the love deepens as we know ourselves and one another better...
My sister Rosy noticed this, she said to me that we always pick in where we left off, but that this time it felt even more like that than ever....
It did...!
The more clear we are, and the more we open to ourselves and to knowing and trusting ourselves, the more we easily we relate to one another.
We exist in one long never ending dialogue, that weaves and twists and creates the rich tapestry of life...
I had lunch with my friend Debs in a fabulous Eco friendly restaurant in Brighton called Silo... It's ethos is sustainability, and being conscious of having a light carbon tread on the planet ...
The restaurant had delicious, amazing, energising food... They have zero waste, nothing goes into bins or landfill; everything goes to compost and all food is bought from a thirty mile radius of the restaurant...
It was a taste explosion and also beautifully energising for the body...
Debs and I reminisced about being in the gym together years ago, and when the crèche was closed, we put her baby, all wrapped up, a little papoose in the corner of the gym, where he slept. I have vivid memories of his tuft of soft hair, poking out from the bundle of blanket.
The baby is now twenty four years old...!
Debs and I picked up where we had left off in a conversation that begun in 1991....
