06 June 2007

the weather...

I am still holding onto the one very important lesson that living in Denmark taught me—to trust the process.

People enter our lives for many reasons, reasons not revealed to us until after the storm or sunshine has passed. And if things are not going as we would have perceived them, I try to keep in mind a saying I picked up regarding the mountains of North Carolina when I lived there—if you do not like

…the weather: wait ten minutes.

This has been the longest ten minutes.

I am waiting for the clouds of confusion to clear, anticipating rays of warm clarity, yet even after almost two weeks nothing has changed—at least to my knowledge, yet one never knows what the space between the heavens and the earth has in store as the magic works behind the scenes. I was prepared for almost anything my last day at work in Denmark—following my personal mantra of “anticipate everything and expect nothing”—yet I was taken aback by a certain response. And I know, per my observations and acceptance, all I usually need to do is wait ten minutes.

Has it been ten minutes?

What I do appreciate is the warmth of those from whom I least suspected, and how beautiful a thing like that can be. Out until 4am with a couple of old colleagues having wonderful conversation to close my last day, a visit from another at my home the day before I left, and dinner with my fabulous coffee buddy, Peder, the evening before I departed for Switzerland.

On the flip—what if we rush those ten minutes?

Of course it is in human nature to want to know the outcome, right here, right now. Yet the most beautiful things come to life when given the time to do so. Knowing that, waiting ten minutes is worth doing so.

question— do you have the time?

04 June 2007

test drive...

I am really not sure what to even write, other than things in Switzerland are going as they should.

I have spent the last week or so reflecting on who I am, from where I have come and where I am headed.

I arrived to Denmark a broken person, running from myself. Last August I started on an amazing growth journey that has taken about eight months to complete. I liken my being in Switzerland as putting my rediscovered self, my wholeness and health on a

…“test drive”: to take what I have learned about myself,

my fears, where they come from, my joy, my passion, what stirs the little one inside and how to keep her from getting behind the wheel (after all, the driving age is 18 for a reason!) and put it to work. See how far I have come and to become an even more beautiful person—one, in addition to all things beautiful and positive, who focuses upon and trusts the process itself.

I owe it to myself first and the ones I love.

As I said to someone who is close to me back home--when I told him the news about my new job and leaving Denmark for Switzerland-- sometimes you have to leave in order to come back.

question— to where is your drive leading?