The Call

In the words of Marianne Williamson: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, February 23, 2020

How Did I Get Here?

Larry - Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, "How did I get here?" I did so yesterday and I'm still pondering the answers. On a macro scale, of course I'm here because my parents conceived me and named me Larry. But I wanted to "back engineer" my life, to follow the thread backwards from today and see what I could learn. I'm going to post just a few of the thousands, if not millions of small and large crossroads in which my life changed directions, most in small incremental steps but some in large, life altering shakeups.

Beginning here, east of Rogue River, Or. where we are house sitting for seven weeks for a couple who vacation in Thailand every year. We found this house sit through an online website that we joined before we were due to leave our last three month housesit in Suquamish, WA. We found the one in WA because we had met our friend, Karen, a bonafide sea captain back in 2007 who asked us to pet sit her two cats, Greta and Max. She's now teaching at a maritime academy on the east coast and wanted us to look after her house on the Puget Sound once again. Starting in 1996, we started our house/ranch sitting gig by word of mouth until we joined "house carers.com". That led us all over the US, as far east as Atlanta, GA and as far south as Texas and Colorado, Washington, Oregon, California. Still pondering the paths we took... the choices we made at different junctures. To Be Continued....