On Our Way, Again

Here we are, Albuquerque Sunport, awaiting boarding for flight number one, to Phoenix, then on to Santa Ana and San Clemente to spend two nights with Terra and baby Eden and Joe. Departure on Friday for Istanbul and Delhi.

It all feels so familiar, and at the same time anxiously unknown and slightly dangerous. Ageing?

(Now awaiting our flight to Santa Ana, Terra will pick us up there.)

 

Movement has begun,                                                                                                                                

 Search for new inspiration                                                                                                                           

Waiting; inside me   

                                                                                                                

Last night, the eve of our departure, I went to bed early, 9:15-ish, in anticipation of rising at 4:30. It was too early and I couldn't sleep of course, and I was caught up in an experience of foreboding, as if some disaster relating to our trip was on the horizon. My mind catastrophized possibilities, and Nancy gave me a flower essence called Fear Less. That helped. Some time on.....was it last night or this morning?.....I realized that the disaster I was expecting is related not to our trip (I hope!), but to the state of our country's experimental democracy as it may be on the brink of attack by some somnambulistic zombies who follow Trump in his continued calls for/suggestions of violence.

I've been following this drama for some time now..........for too long......... and I've been influenced by the real concerns of certain more reasonable minds who are legitimately worried. I don't think I've cared to follow in depth anything political since the Sixties, but this current whirlpool of information and emotion has me in a bit of a spin. It'll be good to give it all a rest, to get out of the country, to shift gears at Sherabling, to enter a realm of different, saner pre-occupations.

I've been infected by the media fear bug, and I need some good medicine.😍😕

 

Airport click clack sounds                                                                                                                            

attachments packed in luggage                                                                                                                    

what did I forget?

 

We've arrived, and are now with Terra and Eden in San Clemente. Eden's as cute and lovely and beautiful as we remember him from his birth time 2 1/2 months ago. Terra's dealing with the realities of new parenthood within the madness of the nuclear family, ideals (her own perfectionism), expectations, biases, stressed, tired, somewhat isolated, in love, etc. Joe's at work so we haven't seen him yet. 

 

And here they all are: 



the wonderful Eden
         

 



Comments

  1. Another day in Paradise HelenDSeptember 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM

    Hi guys glad to see you on your travels again. Lovely to be able to follow along with you. Be safe.

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