I borrowed the title to this post from the movie "The Matrix"... and in hindsight, it sort of mirrors how I feel about my life's experience right now... not the notion of being 'The One'... but to how we REALLY create our life's experience. That, hand in hand with the matching up of universal vibrational frequencies, aka, The Law of Attraction. So, I meant to keep up the blog a bit more but the excuse this time is that I'm in a housing transition and have to go to the library to get internet access for my laptop. Anyway, here's a few last shots of my 'house sitting vacation stay' which ended on the 9th... These are some of my artsy shots that I liked of the silo, etc... Other than that, I await the verdict of my Co-operative community living situation. I've worked over on the River Farm Community a few times so far, working in the garden, bucking hay bales, etc... getting to meet some of the folks and allowing them to meet me. I had my 'formal' interview with them yesterday, although all along, I've felt pretty confident that it was all going to work out just fine. It felt like the next logical step, not to mention the way it all just 'magically' lined up ;-). When that happens I'll have lot's of interesting photos and life stories to share, but pic's of the communal sauna probably won't hit the blog ;-) ... In the mean time I've been 'camping' out at the Van Zandt Dike restoration land... 1,000's of acres of woods and logging roads. It's been pretty cool... taking my jeep up miles of overgrown, back roads reaching the secluded summit, for the recharging of mind & body. The past 4 day's has just been like camping out and exercising the meaning of being grateful and flexible in life... and for clarity and not self pity in any way... I've been doing great with that I'm happy to share! And for future reference... nothing written here is meant in any way, to draw sympathy... but to possibly share an insight that I've been fortunate to learn... and hopefully learned it graciously. As I told the River Farm people yesterday, I no longer have a clue where my life is leading, but my brain is 'down shifting'... 45 years of mental conditioning eroding, new opportunities evolving... and it's all good :-)
As I've mentioned before... I just love this silo... and in the bottom left is Zeus & Zoe, 2 of the 4 heart beats that were left in my charge during my house sitting. Bart, the aging cat and "The Chicken" never made it to digital realm I'm afraid...
This place is/was teeming with photo op's... (except obviously for the fore mentioned cat & chicken). This is looking up inside one of the two silo's... just kind of a cool shot.
And this one with the flowering shrubs looked so amazing in person... but if you click on it, you might get a better shot of it...
Off to the side in one of the barns was this old Ford pickup. The lighting again in person was incredible, and this pic comes close to capturing the subtle hues in the aging paint and rust... And the hood ornament is pretty cool too. And the proverbial chicken coop down below. Nice digs for one... I guess at one time they had 6 birds, but slowly they've disappeared, one by one... Don't ask me where this whole underlining thing came from... It just pops up once in a while and I have no Idea why or how to get rid of it :-/
Here are a couple of shot's of the Everybody's store that has so far been the focal point of much of my promising evolvement. The next time we 'meet' I'll have more to say about that... but let's just say for now that my employment there has been a Godsend in so many ways and continues to blow my mind.
I'll have a few more shot's of the inside next time, but for now here's Jeff, the owner (far left), Fred & Chayse. The ambience literally needs to be experienced, because colorful adjectives and well chosen words fail. Testament are all the customers who return, some after many, many years, to soak in the atmosphere and to buy our renowned hunter sausage or one of our over 40 gourmet cheese's... Although I lost about 25 pounds (with the 'finance diet' months ago ;-) I've managed to only put on a couple since being here. But I've never felt physically better and the quality food helps with my speed on the handball court... more on that later too ;-)
So all in all, I continually go back to one of my all time favorite sayings - "Life's a Trip". Again, I have no real clue as to where my life is going. That is to say that, the journey there... is turning into 'the' journey of the here & now... or maybe better stated, the ever changing and evolving now... the continuation of the present... the moment to moment experience... I don't know :-) Eckhart Tolle articulates this way better than I. But for me, I'm learning that my life and how I feel in THIS MOMENT... and THIS MOMENT... and THIS MOMENT... is all there is. How I feel about what I'm doing right NOW, this very second is where my 'reality' really is... and I'm now beginning to ask myself... Am I happy right now?! In this MOMENT?!... And if not... what am I going to do about it?! As I've made my way to a part of the country that resonates with me more, I find that life is unfolding not only in front of me... but all around me. It kind of feels like ripples in a pond... whose impetus was a new thought, a new experience... or maybe just reliving an old experience but viewing it with more of an open mind & heart... and now I can see more clearly, that in a round about way, I've been working my way here all that time. I guess for the first time, I'm more in tune and aware of the vibrations, rippling back towards me... I just had to shed a few pounds of dead weight... be they old paradigms, instilled dogmas, or inches off the middle... So until next time, much love... and as always, keep taking very good care of yourselves... Alexis
p.s... Thank you to my friends, Keegan, Mia & Eli for their generous comments... and to Andrea, Roberta, Tara, Marc & Dave for their encouraging emails! :-)
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