Seriously - COSTA RICA??

Aside from a deep longing to visit Rhodeside, I've never ever harbored any sort of longing to visit Costa Rica.  Am a Vermont & Montreal type, not Florida & the Bahamas. 

Until now. 

Now, I long with every fiber in my being to be in Costa Rica the first week in February.  To be precise, to be at Blue Spirit Omega, in Nosara, Costa Rica, lapping up inspiration from Nancy Slonim Aronie. 

Yes, it would have been so much easier & waaaay less expensive to connect with her this past March at the Rowe Camp & Conference Center ~OR~ at Omega in June, but am only now reading her wondrous book, Writing from the Heart!!

So, Costa Rica it is. 

Is it in any way, shape or form SANE to plot & plan ways to get to a tropical paradise when I barely have one shekel to rub against another? 

Sanity has nothing to do with this! 

Just reading the first few pages of her book changed my life, made me realize that - at its most successful - my life's work is to help others, including but not limited to olders, experience every moment as present-moment memoir. 

Yes, yes, yes - that is a contradiction in terms, but the gist of it is what I mean.  To live OUR own, unique lives in a manner that honors each & every moment.  Every one.  To find rich material for life experience in the most challenging as well as the most celebratory times. 

As a blurb for the book - featured on the cover - notes, "I loved Writing from the Heart for its warmth, its wit, and its celebration of the ups, downs, and unexpected swerves of the writing journey."  

YES!  That is what I long to convey to my grannie clients, to my everyones - 

celebrate all of it!

It's possible that the first week in February might find me in frosty Pennsylvania rather than toasty Costa Rica, but a girl can wish - and I will!   But if fortune smiles on me in other ways & am still in SE PA come the week of 02/01/14, you'll likely find me nestled in my Squirrel Haven sactuary, a cozy spot all my own, tucked down in the basement, writing or enjoying solitude or experiencing some other uplifting aspect of lessons from the wondrous Nancy Slonim Aronie. 

Then again, you never know...   Every evening star will be tapped with a request, every sweet dream graced with splendid anticipation.  In my heart of hearts, am envisioning blowing out ALL my 03/07 birthday candles with a thank you instead of a wish!

Surprise Challenge

How many other people are like me, facing the startling challenge of making strides in personal work, only to have stubborn remnants of uber determined self dig its heels in & RESIST letting go of the very things I've worked so hard to release?  

So Hum ~ Who Am I?

The first day of what I term the ChOprah Center 21-day meditation series, Desire & Destiny.

Surprised by how much I took from it, what with being at the very public Swedenborg Library.  Yet, all surrounding distractions fell away as I followed Deepak's voice into the meditation. 

The same cannot be said of the internal distractions, the monkey chatter that played over & over atop the base note of today's mantra - So hum/Who am I?  Fascinating to feel the duck & weave of sounds & images that overlay the mantra.  My moment-to-moment reality is that whifty stuff continually competes just that way, diverting attention & focus & energies. 

But my deeper mind DID keep drawing my attention & focus & energies back to the mantra, back to be who I am, whatever that may turn out to be. 

My first dabble at meditation went far better than I expected.   So hum - What am I?


You are what your deepest desire is; as is your desire, so is your intention;  as is your intention, so is your will;  as is your will, so is your deed;  as is your deed, so is your destiny.