chapters | Anything is Possible!

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “chapter.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

One of the things I enjoyed when writing Trust the Timing, was organizing chapters. My favorite chapters were after the rebound from hell when I learned to love myself better and then of course when David found me again after 39 years. I guess I like organizing things in chapters. Not that I’m a neat person by any means.

Even if we’re not writing a book, it can be helpful to think of starting a new chapter in life, or at least turning the page and moving on from what was hard with lessons learned and still being learned. Moving from the coast to the foothills of NC was definitely a new chapter, maybe even a new part of the book of my life.

Life…… At 70, it seems like this is getting late in my book of life. Not the end, I hope, but there’s a lot more behind me than ahead of me. Then again, who knows what happens after death? Another life? I’d like to see all my dogs and live in a cabin in the woods with them. That would be my heaven. My family members can visit of course, sit on the front porch…., or live there, too if it’s a big cabin. No pearly gates for me, but a big cabin, lots of trees and a lake, that would work well. I’d ~~have~~ like a long vacation in that cabin before any new assignments, like as a guardian angel. God knows I owe them.

Why am I thinking about death? Well, it’s a part of life, right? The Buddhist monks I’m following online and in spirit teach that nothing is permanent. I like their idea of doing good works in someone’s name to deal with the grief of losing that someone.

Did you think you’d get away with not reading about the Walk for Peace in this post? Oh well. The venerable monks are on my mind a lot as they approach Washington DC, having walked through heat, cold, snow and rain after leaving Texas in the fall. I’ve been worried about who in Washington would welcome them and worried about their safety.

Well, I didn’t have to worry so much (my lifelong lesson). I recently found out the venerable monks will be welcomed at the National Cathedral in an interfaith ceremony on Tuesday. I saw this Thursday night on the FB page of Bishop Mariann Budde who asked our current president to have mercy on those who were afraid when she gave the inaugural homily at the cathedral. Makes me proud to be an Episcopalian.

The monks will also be going to the Lincoln Memorial, which is fitting. On Wednesday from 4:30 – 7:30 there’s a loving kindness mediation planned. Can you imagine thousands and thousands of people in the US and around the world meditation on loving kindness at the same time?

Here’s the Walk for Peace website.

Maybe we can start a new chapter in the United States of America, a chapter of loving kindness and more peace. What a wonderful world it would be. I know it might take time, but Anything is possible.

I’m not expecting perfection, but we can do better. It starts with each one of us, individually.

In the meantime, lets enjoy the gifts of the present.