The End
"You should wear with pride the scars on your skin. They're a map of the adventures and the places you've been" ~ Poi Dog Pondering
"I will be found with my stake stuck in the ground marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul" ~ Mumford and Sons
"I just wanna live while I'm alive" ~ Bon Jovi
Well. I am back in KC.
I know I did not post the last week but suddenly, once I got near NYC, it became a different journey.
I visited my dear friends in NJ and we got to see the opening episode of True Blood with a famous author and activist in her apt overlooking Central Park. Wow..that was cool on so many levels. An excellent tarot reading said that my focus when I return home is to continue to Listen, Open, Release and Allow. Ah, that.
I then stayed with Kait and explored the day in..day out living in the City on a shoestring budget and that is distinctly different in so many ways than the experience I had been having. Why are all those people there when there is so much country west of them...full of beautiful abandoned houses and empty businesses?
If I had my way, I would smooth the population out geographically. It was distinctly claustrophobic and energetically draining.
The best parts were visiting with my beautiful girl and seeing some great friends, both old and newish.
It was great to be in Central Park as well.
Then I headed upstate for a couple days. How quickly it turns green again once you are out of the City. I got to spend the last days of this journey surrounded in love and acceptance and relaxation and conversation and ritual and fire. It was the perfect way to end this journey.
Back to NYC to fetch my daughter and traveled the southern route back home so that I could show her the magic of the mountains. We crossed through Kentucky and ended up driving the last 24 hours straight through as she needed to get home as soon as she could for her own spiritual journey. We actually had a blast driving and got really giddy. We are good traveling partners.
You will meet her dog baby Aaliyaah here as they visit with Ulric.
So the trip itself has ended. And yet I think I will be on it for some time...much like it actually started about a year ago. It is not over. I know many things now and need to sit and grok them to their fullest. They need to be cherished. And then I will share them with you, my water brothers.
*Guess what we listened to on the drive home?* hee hee. Points for those of you who get it.
Immensely grateful and blessed by all of those who shared their love and homes and meals with me along this journey. Immensely grateful for you who sent encouragement and support and followed along from a distance. I am very blessed. Love and blessings back to you all.