Aha!

February 27, 2013

Anthropologists believe people have to immerse themselves in another world in order to understand their own. The following are things that I have discovered about myself since being in South America again:

• I have far more patience than I ever imagined-for the ability to step off the verandah with a wobbly foot as well as allowing myself to sit without suffering for 45 minutes without my thoughts crazily spinning out.
• My true friends are those whom support me in my very unpredictably worst times and celebrate my best experiences.
• I can be an active, compassionate observer which projects “me” without words.
• My greatest gift is my Self.
• I honor and celebrate Taelor for her strength.
• It is important to be close in proximity to Taelor, my friends and family to be a personal presence in their lives.
• I still don’t fully know who I am and what I am capable of yet I comprehend me better than ever before and have more clarity about who I am not.
• Reading spiritual-based books and daily meditation helps me sort myself out.
• I am at my strongest and most vulnerable without my native language.
• Being out in nature is one of the most joyful things I have ever experienced.

Who I am today is not the person who boarded the plane in Minneapolis on October 4, 2012 bound for Sao Paulo. I don’t pretend to know who you are either so let’s allow the transformation to emerge and intertwine in our interactions.