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Look who is waiting?
So very tired waiting at St Lazard train station. I have now been traveling 24 hours. You do not notice how tired when in motion,but the moments you stop and wait the weariness catches up with you.  Life changes when we receive life with thanks and ask nothing in return. We can see with eyes of the spirit and open hearts. We have the answer to the question how does one hope without expectations? In WWOOFing and in life I find I have everything I need.
My faithful dog Roxie is waiting at home and life has provided me a faithful dog to tend to here in France. You can’t help but find joy, fun and comfort in this fact.

Normandy France

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When you don’t know how it will free you this journey of thanks. I know from my past trips that it will be a step of growth and healing of old wounds. It’s that first step even of the planning that leads you through the door to craving of a new soul in an old skin. When I’m tired then I start to feel weak and sad lonely and alone whether I’m alone or in a group of others. It’s a wonder and a process of emptying and filling your vessel.

Patience and stillness and then periods of great movement and stimulation. Embrace it all!
Is it really so simple to access joy you must always be in a state of gratitude?
The greatest act is to give thanks for everything. She who has practiced and learned this knows what it means to truly live. She has discovered the secret of life. Give thanks for everything!
Salvation is saying yes to what we have?
Gratitude
I am talking on the train from Charles de Gaulle airport to the center of the city with a young couple. They are from North Carloina black and celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary by traveling to Paris. We Are both unsure of our way. I check map and decide on an exit and when I do a young French man who has been listening as I get off the trains says may I help you. I say oui and I precede to follow him through the mirrored of exits and people. He leads me up stairs and even ask if he can carry my bag. I decline and follow him up a lot of steps. When he finally sends me in the right direction I say merci and he touches his chest where you think his heart is and bows his head. What a beautiful tender universal gesture. I am so touched and grateful for this very special man and moment in my Paris. Already gone a memory. As I sit in Lisieux I still feel as though I am moving on the train. I have not slept now in 34 hours. Feeling a little dizzy and ready for my woofing family to pick me up.
Woofing is always such an adventure in the unknown. As a man parks his car. I notice he has a beautiful white dog sitting up right in the front seat. I hope he is here for me, but it’s too early. He leaves his car and walks across the waiting platform looking for someone as he walks back I try to catch his eye instead he lifts both his arms and sighs deeply. It is nice and cool here as I eat a sandwich I bought at the St Lazare train station and buy an expresso. No wonder I am feeling s little wired now. 
I am almost free from the need to look over each shoulder the unease as I move about a city I don’t know. With grand and grateful hopes of a group of people waiting wanting me to join in with them here in Normandy. 
So I am going to take pictures drawing pictures and make list and visual describe the most beautiful things along my way. 
1. A steaming hot cup of expresso
2. A cool breeze in the air
3. A pillow on the plane for my head
4.A strangers kindness
5. A young man showing me the way and gesturing his hand on his heart and bowing his head
6. A moving train
7. Two successful airline flights
8. Texting my daughter 
9. My friend Diane taking me to the airport with a kiss good bye
10. French bread
11. Blue long sleeve shirt 
12. A free coke on ice 
13 hearing people speak French 
A life lesson from a woman who was never satisfied!
It’s Paul’s writing that rings in my ears.
I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little . Philippians 4:11-12
And I learned long ago that I have plenty. Why did I forget, and become greedy? This is what I hope to find out and long to never forget.
Grateful in divorce, debt, and being alone, in it all.
Saying your grateful and living it out are two different things and how all important is it to practice practice as you are never too old to learn new things. I have been grinding my teeth and I thought I had a cracked tooth or needed s root canal when in fact in preparation for my woofing adventure I have been grinding my teeth. So I took the advice of a friend and bought a teeth mouth guard used by football players . It is also going to take practice to use it as I try to sleep and get comfortable. I put must put plastic thing foreign in my mouth. Practice practice as I practice to be grateful in every moment not just in words or the over arching experience but the actual moment the seconds of it.

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Money and your attitude about it is very telling.  Give it away, hold on to it, or not?
I have decided that I have more than enough in every area of my life.  To prove that I have decide to pay it forward.  As I started this experiment I find I get more than I give.  The pure pleasure of giving is expanded my consiousness in this one area.  Thank you for your help universe, higher power, God.
I give all to you and trust in Life.

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June 2014 Unbounded

I’m hundreds of miles from you,
on another continet, haven’t seen you in couple weeks, and before that more than a year.
Yet when I wake I feel you in my room with me, protecting me, loving me.
As I gaze out the large window I spot all red laundry drying on a line.
All signs point to infinite patterns of completion.  Some simple some elaborate.
A life no bigger than me, this time will see that expand.
A red bra and light bouncing off of me.  Heat and a feeling of freedom walking down the street.
I can be anywhere! I am fearless because I trust in your power not my own.
Roof top upon rooftop and God winking at me through a red bra flapping on a clothes line.

A message mixed with the warmth and love of those I have known and those I will know.

Right in the center of Rome. Right in the center of you! God’s Peace.