“You don’t know what it will be, but you know it will be great! What a pattern for living. I love that!”
From Deborah: As the latest chapter in our new work (which we are currently writing) is titled: Bittersweet, I can say I found our return home from our travels to the islands of the Outer Banks to be just that, happy but redolent with that misty sense of missing something. I imagine that I missed that sense of adventure of what will happen next. I missed the freshness of a morning somewhere else so far from my home. Now, after reading what Our Teachers have posted: Returning Home, I have learned that I carried all that with me. In the same way that I longed for change and to go adventuring, I also longed for peace and quiet in my heart … and recognition that all is well and I can have a fabulous life wherever I am. Our Teachers confirm that, and I am grateful.
Yet, so much about our experiences there seem to draw something new out of me. A view of trees and plants that don’t grow here in upstate NY, and the ocean spray and mist that we don’t get here, and more intense sunlight than we get here, and the list goes on. However, in each case, when feeling stimulated by those things, I always felt such gratitude to be where I am, at any given moment. Such thanks! I am just as happy here, back home, at my desk writing this to you and having my happy memories. [Read more…] about While Adventuring Away From Home