A Reprise

I am so in love with releasing my physical things. When I give away or sell something I don’t use, I feel even more freedom. I feel my life is changing quickly, and it’s exciting and intoxicating. One day Nathan will come home, and he will say, “Where is your computer? Where is your car? Where is any of your stuff?” And I will stop dancing with the faeries in the field for a moment and run up to him and say, “I have sold it on eBay. What I couldn’t sell I donated.” Because of what I’ve let go of, I feel so much more. At first it was hard to know what I would use and what I wouldn’t, but going ahead with it I’ve learned and become much faster at sorting through cabinets and drawers and identifying what I can discard. I have such a great urge to get rid of everything. I just have a sense that everything is going to change, and we need to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. We need freedom and ability to travel where we want. When I say “we,” I am talking about myself, but th...

http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html Leaving everything behind All possessions and their worries Destruction, complication and demands The society is over Going to where my heart always wanted to be finally Uncovered and vulnerable and now tested, nowhere to hide behind No more conflict Those who were greedy and selfish lost The society is over So much freedom and further opportunity to clarify my understanding No more worries about material things No more worries about clothing This is an endless summer where you are accepted as you are Leave everything behind Breathe, accept and forgive yourself Nature is the Mother, and she will take care of the damages you made Be still and watch her work Help her, and learn from her Eventually the damages will be repaired And the land will be natural again And we will be free

Art at Avoca Coffee , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr.

Blushing rose , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr. My blushing Knock-out roses are blooming profusely.

Peaches ripening , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr.

Cammie's Ice Cream Shop , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr. My favorite stop in Mobile. The vintage Dutch-themed wallpaper reminded me of the illustrations in my vintage Betty Crocker cookbook. The coffee-flavored ice cream I had was delicious.

Mobile Bay , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr. Lying in the tide, right where the waves turned over, and feeling a slight undertow ever so often as one wave advanced and the other receded at the same time. The salty, foamy water turning my hair into something I didn't recognize, an orang-ing, dry, straggling mass that hung over my shoulders for three days untended. Delightful crabs scuttling across the sand, white as bone or pearl.

Dauphin Island shore , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr. I want so much to believe that I won't disappear in the water, that I won't always be swimming against the tide. -- Darren Hayes It was easy to believe it in this place.

Dauphin Island shore , a photo by ladyhildegarde on Flickr. Taken by the sea.