Big "D" Here I Come...
06/13/2009
Window seat, 28,000 feet above the surface, right side – Row 16, American Flight 1614. Summer haze and clouds make it tough to see the ground. There even seems to be a haze above the plane partially blocking the sun. We have just flown over the Mississippi. It is a smooth flight, the seat-belt sign is off.
I am on my way to Dallas, and this is a pleasure trip, a pilgrimage of sorts. I am on my way to “The Place That Shall Not Be Named.” Yes, I know back in the beginning of the year I swore up and down not to mention that certain place in Dallas, and especially the reason I love it so. However, this may be the only exception I could possibly come up with. You see, a very good friend of The Nancy’s and mine is there doing what The Nancy and I did there about five years ago. Mrs. B. is completing the second in a series of workshops on personal growth and development, and I am going for her graduation (more like the closing ceremony).
Actually, I am going for me. The Nancy and I had hope to do this together, but Mrs. B. was unable to attend with her first workshop comrades, and waited a cycle to do the second…I am trying so hard be innocuous. Well, her plans foiled ours. The Nancy is on her way back to The Farm from spending a few days in New York City with her daughter and granddaughter, thus, I go alone.
I really don’t mind making the trip as a bachelor; I have made the trip alone several times since my first trip in November 2004. I can use the time to re-ground myself in the principles of “living in the present and being in the now” and “taking full responsibility for what happens to me in my life.” I will be reacquainted with what it means to be head over heels in love with me – of who I am and what I am about, and how this and only this allows me to love unconditionally, and also not to judge others. It will remind me I am the only source of my happiness. It is the best day, ever.
It will also remind me that “Talk don’t cook rice.” http://www.millennium3education.com, opps! I forgot I was not to mention the name. Sorry!
And that is all I have to say about that…