Wednesday, April 21, 2010

What gets your attention?

Sitting in the window seat of a 747 I catch myself being in complete and total awe of the beauty below me. In this perfect moment, seeing the snow covered Rocky Mountains with a clean crisp bright blue sky surrounding the most amazingly perfect white puffy clouds....I felt...peace. Real peace. The kind that comes from BEing in the moment, bearing witness to such beauty. As others around me engaged with a new-found friend, read the trashy magazine, worked on laptops, slept, ignored the crying baby...put their tray tables in the upright position...I took a moment to look around realizing that within my view, I was the only one bearing witness to this...this amazing vista from the airplane window. I turned my attention back to my feeling of peace and as we flew through one of those perfect fluffy clouds...the plane started to bump, bounce, fall, rise, shake...and I laughed. Out loud. It felt like the tilt-a-whirl I used to love as a kid. It was so frickin cool! I took a second look around and saw that NOW everyone was in the "same" moment I was. Not feeling what I felt, but their attention was on the same thing. And I thought to myself, how interesting...."Will it always take the 'bump,' the discomfort, the fear, to get peoples' attention? As I turned back toward the window, watching the ground ascend, I thought, "I hope not."

Friday, April 16, 2010

Showing up

My father was a high school teacher and used to write sayings in chalk outside his classroom door. My favorite was "where ever you go, there you are." Not an overly complicated man, my dad, but he had his moments. So why does that tidbit of info come to mind? I'm sitting in a hotel room in LA and came here for....well.... I'm not totally sure. No I'm not an actress/waitress coming to LA to make it! I'm here on business, sort of. I have been stretching the limits of my reality. I'm following a gut decision to come to an "event," a symposium, if you will. I came here mainly to see who I will attract - not the sexual type of attraction. I'm talking about the Law of Attraction. Heard of it? So far the ONLY thing that has happened, is this BLOG....and it was a spontaneous move to create it now....but something I've wanted to do for some time.
So here I am.
Still here.
Nothing happening yet.
OH wait... I think someone is....never mind. Just some kids walking down the hotel hallway.
I guess the Law of Attraction doesn't work.
I hope you get my humor...yes...that's what I'm trying to do.
Anyway, back to my original point. I'm here, I've shown up! I'm trusting my gut/intuition. I did it. And that, my friends, IS my point. The "Now What?" will be revealed...in time. Here I AM!