ok,Today a decision was made. Next Wednesday, April 7, I'm going to be starting a new adventure, leaving my comfy digs for the past 5 years, and putting a mattress in my van, a few suitcases, my computer and golf clubs, and my angelic companion Lady, a 10 year old Chihuahua. Trouble is, I don't know where I'm going! I have absolutely no direction so I'm feelin into putting out feelers for other BNL members who have the capacity and stable ground to be a host for folks like me in transition, sort of a destination stay-over or meet up, for the directionless. I just feel like I'm done trying to fit in with the mind control masses, let them go their way, but I want to be with people whom I can be authentically me with them, ...like all of you. Maybe even create a circle for transition locations where seekers and hosts can find each other easily.
This is my Brave New Life, and this is extreme, but I'm really excited and feel so light having decided that I will leave with what I stated above, and with only a little hesitation on some things, I am walking away from the rest. Totally detaching from the material 'preciousness of things'. I have already done nearly the same, but not this extreme. No fuss, no muss for me, and my 40 year old friend feels like he won a decorator's sweepstakes but he's the one who has to do the heavy lifting and going through. And I'm not even going to be there for the clearing out, he'll do it after I leave. It's very liberating. Really taking the stress out of the equation.
This is my Brave New Life, and this is extreme, but I'm really excited and feel so light having decided that I will leave with what I stated above, and with only a little hesitation on some things, I am walking away from the rest. Totally detaching from the material 'preciousness of things'. I have already done nearly the same, but not this extreme. No fuss, no muss for me, and my 40 year old friend feels like he won a decorator's sweepstakes but he's the one who has to do the heavy lifting and going through. And I'm not even going to be there for the clearing out, he'll do it after I leave. It's very liberating. Really taking the stress out of the equation.
I've slept in natural surroundings 4 of the 7 nights, spent 2 nights in a very nice condo on Cortez Golf course in Hot Springs Village Arkansas. I'm weaned from screen time and find it annoying that the places I've needed to go into for car repairs, hotel reception, restaurant, all have a TV on some news station. How do people really listen when there is so much to distract them?
So, Arkansas Ozark country is beautiful: woods and hills and mountains, and rivers and lakes. I've been taking non-main routes, that is, no interstates and no 4 lanes of traffic, just county roads between towns. It is a great way to travel and I feel so connected with nature and lots of me time and I'm not stressing or dwelling long on subjects of the past or future. I'm heading to Carlsbad Caverns in the SE corner of New Mexico for more nature time, once I get the tires on the van tomorrow. It's about a 4 hour drive away, speed limit 75 on these Texas straightaways, as opposed to 40 MPH on the curving roads through the Ozarks. Then maybe some golf, then I'll try crossing the border - I don't have all the usual ducks in a row for that, don't know how it'll go, it can be smooth..........hope I bring the right personnae and official is able to overlook some incongruities .