It’s 10:47 in the morning. We have already cooked and eaten breakfast, cleaned up the kitchen, hung out with the family in the next bungalow, greeted the 6″ long salamander who keeps checking out my toes from less than a foot away as if they are edible, taken a bunch of photos, showered and gotten dressed, and, oh yes… gone snorkeling in the Caribbean.  Amazing how you can be active and feel you are relaxing if the things you are active doing are things you want to do.

We will be heading out soon to drive around the parts of the island we didn’t get to yesterday.  Then it’s return the rental car and plan to spend the coming week “stuck” here on the beach, eating the food we were smart enough to stock up on, and doing not much else… except, of course, blogging, writing, and pondering the bigger picture.  What’s it all about?  Where do I fit in?

If, as I have been teaching and preaching all along it is all about being happy, then “I” has done a pretty good job with this little ‘I’. The only question is whether ‘I’ am able to share it with others.

peace…….ag

Woke up this morning to discover that I have 1,500 new neighbors, courtesy of the cruise ship that docked early this morning at the town pier about 1/2 mile down the beach.  Fortunately, it glided in quietly and didn’t affect my sleep.  Other than the slightest hint of reggae music wafting across the sand and this long white giant resting out under the palms, nothing in my setting has changed.  I am told that the sleepy town square has been filled with local kiosks as the residents look to sell whatever they can to  earn some money from the floating tourists.

We will be driving across the island today, while we still have the car, visiting the ‘big’ city of Christiansted and playing tourist ourselves before settling in to our planned period of rest, relaxation, and nothing planned.

It is amazing, sitting here, looking out through the palm trees, across the turquoise blue water, towards the point where the dark blue water at the horizon meets the light blue sky, to recognize that this is all happening on a small round sphere hurtling through endless space.  “I” couldn’t have planned it better.

peace….ag

Sitting on the patio facing the ocean, twenty feet away.  Two palm trees flank the pool between me and the wide expanse of water.  A white egret is facing me, drinking from the pool.  Or maybe it’s a heron… I really don’t know the difference.  If I lived here I’d know.  I’d also know why the ocean water has all these different colors from dark at the horizon to light, bright, turquoise at the sandy beach.  I have to remember not to let a coconut fall on my head as I walk beneath the trees. I also have to remember to drive on the left side of the road.  So much to remember, so much to learn… definitely one of the fun things about being alive.  You never know it all.

peace…….ag

Today we leave.  Traveling a quarter way around the world to a place where we can lay back, relax, take it easy… and, oh yes, swim and snorkel in warm, crystal clear water.  I remember when we first moved to San Francisco and felt the different energy from upstate New York and the East Coast.  What different energy will we feel here?

A native American teacher of mine says that people are drawn to certain areas, climates, and energies the same way fruits and vegetables are drawn to certain areas and climates.  Some people like being surrounded by neighbors, others think even seeing another house means that the neighbors are too close.  What energy will we feel on St. Croix?  Will we fit in?  Somehow or other I think we’ll be able to manage for two weeks.  🙂

Tomorrow’s post will be from the island.

peace……….ag

One day to go before we leave on the trip.  Time to pack, time to double check that the cat is taken care of, the plants will be watered, the cars are not parked in places where they have to be moved on street cleaning days.  Time to remember what we forgot before we forget it.

And time to write a paragraph from the laptop computer to add to the previous one that I wrote on the home computer.  It’s amazing what technology allows us to do these days.  It’s also amazing how we must follow the rules of technology or we can’t do anything.  Every blessing seems to come with its own built-in curse.

peace…..ag

Two days until we leave on our trip, and just to make sure everything is working as it should, I am writing this blog from the laptop.  From the other end, providing everything works, it should make no difference.   Of course, I won’t have access to all the files I have on my home computer, and as I am rapidly learning, this laptop does not have a forward delete.  But, other than that, and the differences I have yet to find,  ideas will still come across regardless of the means of input.  And, yes, it will take longer to do.  But, then again, what is there to actually do… other than be happy… and be kind. That’s it.

And this is also the big day.  I have now lived as long after my spiritual rebirth as I had lived before that day, some 37+ years ago.  I am balanced at last… although my wife might have something to say about that.

peace……..ag

My wife is off at the vet’s with the cat.  She… the cat… not knowing any better… has been scratching her ear and has opened up some not very pretty sores which bleed and detract from the otherwise beautiful, serene  vision of a Siamese princess. She has been wearing a collar around her neck over the weekend which my wife put on her to protect her from herself until she could be taken down to the vet this morning.   It’s not her fault, of course, she’s just a cat and most likely doesn’t realize how the things she does to ease some annoying little itch can grow and grow into something that could really be a danger to her.

How many things, I wonder, do we humans do just as innocently, just as stupidly.

peace…….ag

Before today ends, I will send out the quantum physics article.  WooHoo.  It really is amazing what you can do when you focus on doing it.  In fact, 1 hour and 45 minutes after that last sentence was written, it has now been sent and resent by the recipient to eight others.  Let’s see what happens next.  Will it have a life of its own?

I’m actually starting to feel a little different.  I’m not quite sure what it is, but it’s inside.  Told my wife and son at dinner that this coming Tuesday will be a big milestone in my life.  It will be exactly 13,827 days since my Death Return Experience in 1978… which was exactly 13,827 days after I was born.  In other words, I will have lived on both sides of the bridge for an equal amount of time.  I am balanced.

“Will you be a new you?” asked my wife, in sort of a joking mode.

“Yes”, I answered, and I really meant it.  Honestly.  I have been thinking about it and I really meant it.  How it will manifest I’m not quite sure.

peace………ag

Less than a week to go before the trip.  It’s clearly time to start thinking about what I’m going to need to take. Part of this trip is to see if we could live in an island setting, so bringing the laptop computer and making sure it is set for me to continue my blogs and communications with the outside world is critical.  I can no longer put it off.  I wonder why I have?

Made the decision that copyrighting my quantum physics article would only be for my benefit… not for “my” benefit, so I just sent an email to the president of FMBR, the Foundation for Mind-Being Research, offering a copy of the paper for review by the membership. We’re off and running.

Guess what.  He’s already gotten back saying he’d love to see the article.  So tomorrow it goes out into the world.   Ever better.  How cool is that.

peace………ag

tbc

The Big five – oh.  At least that’s what my t-shirt said so many years ago on that fateful birthday. This 5-0 is also a milestone.  Fifty days of daily posting.  315 to go.  Actually, 316.  This is a leap year.

And wouldn’t you know it.  After posting the above this morning I got so involved with everything else that I didn’t add anything to it.  I did get the Director of Communications at the school to agree to help… and I did get a great idea for the lecture… and I did talk to an expert about how to protect my paper before sending it out.  So a lot got done.  I just forgot to write it up.  No one said it would be easy.

peace……….ag