Took a day trip out of Lyon to Perouges. the medieval town is a 20min walk from the train station.
You gently curve up stone clad paths and find yourself bumped into another time-space. Stone-clad houses lined with bricks, curved pebbles on the ground polished by time, this very small medieval village and one of the most beautiful in France, is straight out of the past.
It’s a place where the imagination comes alive.
We came back into this reality and headed to the Meximeux food market. I love produce – not that I cook well but the vibrant colours always nourish me
Traverse mountains valleys and ranges in my inner world
Exploring highs and perhaps mostly lows
I learned to come back to the middle ground and to locate my center
It was a big learning curve
I think I did a lot coasting spirituality and energy work – perhaps I want to find out if that was for me
But now I think – I m happier simpler, lesser
The question that always found me in 2022 was – what do I want ? What do I really want? That was my work for 2022
I want to be happy – to live well and simple
I want to do my best for my family – helping them be well and feel well. And I know for that, I have to be well and healthy first
There are times I looked at bf and remember the boy who loved me and I love. Where is he now? He has gone through a lot too and has become this middle aged man already.
I look at myself – am I not the same?
We are each other’s reflection. We are each other. You are I. Me and I am in you.
If I want to see him rosy and happy, I first have to be . And I tell myself: let’s make love and peace everyday.
I want to shine bright- using what I see learn feel – for myself and my world. I sincerely hope that by living and feeling true to myself, I can inspire , warm and touch another person- and make another feel – let’s go again, let’s try once more, I can do it
2022’s December brought me to japan and europe and I couldn’t be more grateful coming to these places of beauty , feeling seeing breathing and experiencing it
Then expressing it outwards and getting all the echoes of resonance back
I never imagined crossing over a new year overseas, much less sledding and tobangganing or doing a thrill walk getting up close to mountains and zipping past alpine scenery
After staying stagnant for so long, I can’t be happier for the new places I go to, for the new experiences I bagged. There’s so much wonder in the new, each time allowing oneself to (be so willing as to) let go further of the past, to expand on one’s boundaries and go forth even more in consciousness.
I did something different and that’s so so good.
It’s a new beginning- May 2023 be filled moments after moments with loving light, magic and wonder. May 2023 be peaceful, healthy, joyful. Happy 2023!
We headed for Interlaken OST and made our way to Schiltorn. Bf was hesitant at first because a leg of the rail wasn’t covered by Eurail Global Pass
But I wanted to
So off we went
We took a train from Interlaken OST to Launterbrunnen and took a bus to Stechelberg. Here the cable car journey is split into a few legs and we progressed up
Birg at 2777 feet is where we did the thrill walk where you walk on steel railings and sometimes see through glass so you could see the mountains below
I did that with trepidation little by little
Then headed up to Schiltorn at 2970 feet
Schiltorn offers a view of the surroundings mountains , the Eiger, Monch, Jungfraujoch
There was a segment where you could walk on snow and feel the winds gushing at you
It’s nice. I m back here finally – I heard myself say. Finally! SO Happy!
Facing the sun and getting nearer to it then before
Having the winds gush and blowing at you
Seeing the mountains all around
I asked the winds to support the release of anything that no longer supports me
And I thanked TPY, for she has come such a long way. I thank her for putting in all the effort , persevering and believing and trusting enough amidst all to find her way here.
Saw this view of Bled at 0730hrs. It’s a million possibilities that is looking back at you and which one, will you choose
I wanted to see Lake Bohinj, so we drove. We were driving and circling it yet it was—nowhere. Even if we were so close, Bohinj was not there for me.
The little hike helped me see why. The mist was so collected in the valley.
While getting contented with that lack of a proper view, forgetting the images of Bohinj I saw online, we dropped Bohinj completely and headed to Savica Waterfall.
It’s about 560 steps and then you come face to face with the valley below, mist covering Bohinj.
The geography of the area is what makes this place special. It’s always shrouded and veiled in clouds of mist.
Sometimes we have to rise above it to see it.
And Savica was such a treat! The emerald green waters were such a sight.
By noon, we were back at sea level and by this time the veil had lifted and Bohinj showed up.
Many at times we want it too hard too easily. Letting it loose and go may be a way to finding. Bohinj always was and has been, my expectations played on me. There’s a divine time for everything.
And who’s to say that the images online are the right ones?
We then headed to Ljubljana and there was a party on the street as it’s Independence Day. And there was lots going on with a lot of stalls selling food and stuffs
We walked about the Old Town and hiked up to the Ljubljana castle where we had a Birds Eye view of the city below
How about starting with making a right decision each day ?
It’s the feeling of gratitude, that I get to travel with my husband and to be with each other – here, now
I am grateful to everyone who made this possible, my dad who helped me take care of kids,
I am grateful to my kids who gave us their blessings
I am grateful to have the opportunity to see the world and get to new places I haven’t been to
I intend that the trip for wonderfully filled with love, light and magic
I intend that I connect back to TPY
I intend that I use my heart to feel
6am
Reiki-Ing myself and thoughts streamed in
I asked myself to come back
Come back to what?
To meeting the divine
Who is divine? Where? I asked.
Who are you meeting?
And the response was: the divine is me and in me
You are meeting TPY
Powerful beautiful awakened TPY
I ask my body to heal the cyst the keloids
I ask myself to become the healthy shiny energetic TPY- a version of me I haven’t really explored
I want to go there so that this TPY, healthy rosy energetic beautiful light filled being can help many others
And so it is
And I saw this
We spent the first day in Salzburg shopping in an outlet then headed to the Christmas markets in Salzburg
The markets were busy and there were lots of Christmassy things and food but it just wasn’t my kind of magic
We had schnitzel and a kale ravioli for dinner then headed back to the hotel to rest
I asked myself about the magic… I mean, I considered the itinerary that kind of settled us in——Austria Salzburg Slovenia Lake Bled Bern Annency Lyon Paris
What called me here
There are many new places I haven’t been to
And I ask myself to open up to the magic the trip is opening up to me
Watched Ad Astra on board and Brad Pitt was flying to the moon
Then it came to me- that I forgot my dream
That I forgot to dream
That is the crux and where and how things went off
What is my dream?
As I breathed in light from Guru Rinpoche , I tried to find my center rather than concentrate on the doubts
Where is my center?
I tried to feel it
Where?
Where?
It’s like – what and where is my rock ?
It’s what is in front of me
It’s being with my precious family whom me and my husband have built and making it healthy, safe, well, full of love and beauty
It is to connect first with myself , my family then outwards
It is to get at or arrive at the heart center , the tender parts people hide- with them together
It is to fetch out voices from the heart that they may not even know
Dear divine, show me the way to this
Coming to this point is bringing me to tears
It’s bittersweet
How many moments have I got to go through to come here at this point- to know my dream my talent my purpose
My meaning
It is to get out these voices deep in the heart
Knowing this brought my happiness and great joy and reduces me to the kneel
Something inside me shook and defrost
I’m happy
It is great great happiness knowing this is what I really want to do. And it doesn’t matter if I m not there yet or that I do not know how to do this
I just know I will and I will be doing this amazing work- bringing out voices of the hearts and to be a part of this process , holding space for another
Just by listening and asking questions, just being/be doing this
I come back stronger focused on this work I want to do going forward and I ask the divine for all the support all the inspirations and all the light that I need on all fronts on this path
And I m home
There’s this question Brad Pitt put out after his father broke off the bond . He asked, “ why keep trying? Why go on?”
Why I asked myself too
Why?
Because I believe there is something larger than life I m in awe of
Something larger than myself something larger than what I have what I see that I want to go closer to
And the start of it all would be listening in and listening to the voices of the hearts
These voices speak of the magnificence the very magic of life
Brad Pitt ends the movie with this,
“ I m unsure of the future but I m not concerned.
I will rely on those closest to me
And I will share their burdens as they share mine
I will live and love
Submit”
And so it is, om!
Amen!!
Let’s start by imbuing each moment with awareness to experience and then expressing the beauty and magic of it.
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