Sun, SUn, SUN Here It Comes!

It’s been 16 days, 15 hours, 9 minutes and 43 seconds, and the sun is finally starting to come out.

Yes, I ‘m still here on the cliffs. My mom finally said her goodbyes and left to get ready for her birthday party. I’m not worried. I know she will come if and when I ask.

I gotta say, I am really enjoying being way up here on my home cliffs. I’ve learned (and nothing against gurus), why some of them stay on the mountaintops, and we have to make the trek to them. Yes, the trek is probably the point for us, but I also have to say that life is easier (albeit a bit lonelier) up here. Sitting in my new and improved guru-ish perspective without the internal and external pulls and pressures of the world “down there,” even yours truly could probably come up with a couple of catchy universal pithy statements (perfect for bumper stickers) about how to live in the world (especially when I’m not doing it). It just strikes me as a little “Do what I say, not what I am not crazy enough to do.”

We all know how difficult life can be in the world. Even one-on-one relationships can be a challenge depending on the circumstances, but if that was all we had to deal with – navigate our lives one person at a time – it wouldn’t be too bad. Line up and take a number. Next!

It’s the immersion back into life and life’s mainstream of relationships where it gets tough for me. Juggling multiple relationships with multiple personalities at multiple times with multiple results for me often multiplies out to sketchy success.

If I am recalling correctly, it was on the Bill Moyers interviews with Joseph Campbell (that amazing PBS special called The Power of Myth) that Campbell said the real hero's (or heroine's) journey doesn’t lie so much in the challenges of that trek up the proverbial mountaintop to our intended transformation; the hero(ine)’s journey is returning home back to a life that probably hasn’t changed all that much AND staying IN the transformation.

I have the fortunate opportunity of being in a profoundly transformative process while being deeply related to an amazing group of women who intend the highest and fullest flourishing for ourselves and each other. I know I can rely on them to keep me in this new perspective after I have left the penthouse and returned to the ground floor.

Despite that, however, I think I am going to stay up here a little while longer. I need to give this perspective, this calmness, this peace, this expansive me time to penetrate through my epidural pores, absorb into the calcium in my bones, sink into the nuclei of my cells and re-absorb into its pre-assigned place in the matrix of my DNA.

God View re-acquaints with God Self.

The seas are calm; the skies are blue; and all is feeling pretty right with me and the world.

Sun, Sun, SUN. Here it comes! (and not a moment too soon!)