Had a delightful Winter Solstice Celebration this afternoon. Fixed and served a hamburger vegetable soup that was delicious. I hadn’t used this recipe before but I will fix it again. We each set our intentions for 2019.
My word for 2019 is Secure “we”. My mentor had taught us how to do this but I don’t think I ever clicked it in correctly. I have done lots of work on myself and now I need to turn to “we” and learn how to build myself a community. It is hard to be of service to the world when I am not in the world. It has been too easy for me to become a hermit and not people as much as I should. 2019 is the year for me to learn how to “we”.
The intentions I set are wrapped around “we”. Relationships, being of service and building a community were the ones I choose for this year. It will be fun to see where this all takes me.
Found out a person important to my son is critically ill and may not live. It is a hard time of the year to lose someone. I will send healing light and love to them and keep Jason wrapped in love and prayers.
Got a Christmas card from the dear friends I met walking the Camino. They ask me to not leave them hanging about my Match guy. So for Carolyn and Tom here is the latest scoop. I have spent lots of time with him lately. My retreat was time away with him. We spent 16 days together touring Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico and ended at his home in Oklahoma. It was a wonderful time getting to know each other. We did a lot of hiking together, went to several museums, attended a Choral Concert, and put together two different zig saw puzzles. It was one of the better vacations I have ever taken.
Not sure where this relationship is going. We are both being cautious and taking our time to let it unfold in a very organic way. He has family with him until after New Year’s Day so I won’t see him again until after the first of the year. Where we go from there no one knows other than at this moment we both want to see the other again. We live three hours apart so we have to coordinate schedules to make that happen. He is going to be teaching two different six-week long courses starting the first of February that he has to prepare for. I have guests periodically that I need to be here for.
He is fun for me to text with and chat on the phone with when we aren’t together. He can read me better than anyone I have ever met before. We laugh a lot and have fun together. That seems to be enough for me right now. I don’t need to know where this is going – teaches me to stay in the moment and enjoy life.
I am going into Emporia in a bit to babysit the grandkids for the evening. It will be fun to spend some more time with them. They were out Sunday but I will take all the time with them I can get. They are both growing up so fast and am thinking the day they would prefer not to spend time with G is coming soon.
Thanks to lots of friends I have managed to get rid of the extra eggs I had. Down to only one dozen left. Thanks friends! Glad to see them be used and not wasted.
It is a beautiful clear day on the prairie today although the wind is sure in a hurry. It has been blowing around 30 MPH most of the afternoon with gusts higher than that. I went down to do the chicken chores and needed rocks in my pockets to keep from being blown over. Glad I was carrying a five-gallon bucket of water to help weigh me down. The trip back to the house was a bit of a challenge.
Sitting with a grateful heart this afternoon. Not sure why I have been so blessed. Life feels easy to me today. So very grateful!
Grateful for dear friends to celebrate Winter Solstice with, grateful for my Match guy and the potential he brings to me, and grateful for all the many ways I am blessed.