I like to play with my toys.
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I spent today setting up our new health insurance plan. Figuring out what works for us on the road full-time is not easy, but I think this new thing we got into might be just the ticket. Still, I hope we stay healthy a while longer.
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We’re getting ready to leave our cushy spot at Sam’s Family Spa and Hot Springs where we’ve been for a MONTH! I am so spoiled with twice daily soaks and swims and saunas and steambaths that I will for sure go through withdrawals once we are back out in the wild scrubbing our dry asses with sand!
But it is time to go.
Time to go or stay and be tamed! I’m not ready for that yet, thank you very much. But it is nice to have found a place that is wonderful and friendly and inexpensive and funky and magical- it actually is magical. Like, magic happens here almost continuously. I really do love every single thing about it. And all the wonderful people who wander in and out, stay a while, stay forever, come back every year- it attracts good folks mostly.
I am so grateful to have had this time and place that was so nurturing and supportive of practice and relaxation and healing.
thank you, Universe.
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I’m looking forward to getting wild again. And our visit to NYC! We are going to meet up with a couple of our online friends while we are there- it’s going to be a love fest! And Christmas in New York City, with friends and beloved family new and old and museums and monks and cold and snow and what what what. Thank you, again, Universe! We are going to have so much fun.
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I am profoundly blessed. Blessed with the best wife. Blessed with a beautiful life. I have a healthy body and a wildly creative mind and a good soul and just the right amount of mostly imaginary problems to chew on. I have my path and my wonderful teachers. I have the intertubes and books and movies. I have good food and great places to eat in that are all new and changing and my yard changes all the time and so do my neighbors. My needs are few and growing fewer. I don’t have to work any more. I don’t owe anyone anything. I am free to do what I want and go where I want. I love this life. I’m so grateful for every single thing that has ever happened to me. Especially the bad things. And especially the good things. And even the boring parts. It’s crazy to me that at fifty-two my life feels like it is ramping up- getting more and more exciting, more fun, more rewarding, more challenging, more exotic, more of everything.
It would be wonderful to stay alive and healthy for a long time, and perhaps that will be my experience. But already I’ve been blessed with a full life, and if I die tomorrow I won’t have any regrets about it.
My life is full of good people like you. You come here and you read and sometimes you leave comments and I feel you here. I feel the connection. I feel the goodness and the love and for that I am so deeply grateful I could cry about it. Everywhere I look I have good people and more show up every day. Thank you for being my friends. You sustain me in my dark hours.
Things keep unfolding just the way they do. I’m happy to bear witness to it all.
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I hope your holidays are bright and wonderful and filled with love. The one thing I’d urge you to do is to open up to them, don’t fret over all the stress and noise and difficulty but let that be the crunchy topping that you can break through to get to all the dark, gooey, sweet and sustaining goodness underneath.
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May you be happy, may you be at peace, may you and everyone you love be free from suffering.
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Namaste.
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“my life feels like it is ramping up- getting more and more exciting, more fun, more rewarding, more challenging, more exotic, more of everything.”
I love this. I want to be able to say the same about my life, and think I will! even if it’s not true yet … it can be, it will be. -Kate
Kate-
It can be and it will be!! And saying it’s true can make all kinds of things come into your life- and other things leave!
So glad to see you here!
big love,
Scott
Last night Zen Glen said to me, “Now is the time for us to have fun!” and that concept is so hard for me that I cried a little but I’m going to try. On Christmas day, when I am in Mexico with the miracle of the many colors of sea beside me I will think of the things I am grateful for in this life of mine and you and your beautiful Yolie will be part of that.
And I will hope to see you sometime in the coming year. And I WILL BE EXPECTING A HUG from our dear Rosemarie, delivered via the both of you. Okay?
Okay. And please- give her an extra huge hug from me.
Mary-
We’ll give her as many hugs as she’ll take!!!!
Have fun in Mexico and have fun everywhere you go! That man of yours is right and you know it, so go do it and freak out about it later! ha ha.
We love you so much and we miss you tons- we will make it back your way by hook or by crook!
Big love- give all them loved ones big hugs from us, too!
you are my hero. seriously. and your Woman On the Verge is a goddess.
well, ain’t you sweet to say so! And I agree with you about the Woman on the Verge so totally!
Thank you for commenting and just being here!
Big love,
Scott
It doesn’t seem quite real that I’m going to get to meet you and hug you soon. I’m so excited and nervous and thrilled. But I’ma be cool. I promise. Maybe. Ooooohh. Soon. ❤️
It is amazing to think about! Can’t wait to see you- and there’s NO WAY we’re gonna be cool! We are going to totally freak out!!!
Big love-
Scott and Yolie
May you and Yolie also be happy and free of suffering. Have a blast in that wonderful city. Beyond thrilled when my blog idols get to meet. The universe is indeed magical. Big love.
Xoxo
Barbara
Thank you so much Barbara!
The crunchy topping! Oh My, what a way to look at stress. Thank you for that visual and for the reminder of gratitude as a practice. I turned 60 two days ago and feel that adventure awaits. You inspire to hop right into it. Happy Holidays!
Happy belated birthday, Susan! Thank you for your kind comment and well-wishes! Happy holidays to you!