This may be an essay that takes a long time to complete.Â
It’s not just about the delightfully oddball things that occurred yesterday, the day Lissa and I officially set off from Vermont to Santa Fe, it’s also about the beautiful goodbyes that punctuate the wondrous maturing that I have been blessed to experience since arriving in Vermont on Halloween 1993. Nowhere else have I lived as long, or ever considered home, other than my own imagination, my own heart, where the presence of God has told me since birth that I’m home no matter where my body resides for a relative moment or two on my travels to Oneness. Still, the fruits of these past 28 years have included the cultivation of innumerable friendships that have recently prompted many of my men friends in particular to express their love in the most direct way they are able, by saying to Lissa, “Take care of him.”
(To be continued)
travel safely, be well, and stay in touch
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Travels with Love.
Happy Trails, Steve!
Well Steve, good luck in the next phase of your life. Santa Fe will surely prove an interesting place to live. I do hope you’ll continue to write your blog once you’re settled out there, to lift we readers up.
Every time I drive into Claremont, past the Home Depot, I see the Sugar River and remember our meandering canoe trip that day. High banks full of swallows. Gentle, easygoing waters. The fun of paddling and talking. Next time, I’ll imagine you out among the mesquite and cacti.
Take good care of yourself. New England will miss you.
Best,
Odds
Steve,
Will be thinking of you as you take this most important trip.
Will be in Santa Fe in September.
Love, Doug
Dear Steve,
Missing contact with your Grace, the Grace that continues to pour through your soul, the Soul of us all. I did hear somewhere that there is one ego. Should I capitalize the ego? It does seem to be materialistic and a wolf in sheep’s clothes, perhaps tyrannical. It can be described as I write this right now as a playmate that allows me to do whatever I choose to do as long as it is in control.
Well, let me go on. I miss you and would so wish to talk with you. I did not realize that you had actually left Vermont and found your new home together with Lissa. I am awakened at this early morning hour and am wishing to have a conversation with you if that is still possible. Vermont misses your presence as you have surely spoken on so many occasions as the Muse of Muses in the heart of the Muse of Vermont. So, let me send my late gratitude as well as my deepest congratulations to you and to God and to Lissa for finding one another along this latter part of your life’s journeying path. Do you live in Santa Fe proper or in the outskirts? Thank you for visiting with Raphael on your trial run to Santa Fe. I felt blessed and somehow fulfilled that you got to meet one another. I hope to get a chance to visit Raphael at some point perhaps in 2022 if Grace allows and if it is my destiny to do so. Then I might have the honor to meet you and your Lissa and Lissa and her Steve as well as your Angels. Ye so bet it. Love from Michale and Robert