Tuesday, May 6, 2025

God, gratitude

Thank you God for this day. Thank you for the sunshine and blue skies, the cliches, the fresh air, the green grass and trees, the little birds darting about the manicured bushes. Thank you for peace of mind. Thank you for the good sleep and rest and pleasant dreams.  Thank you for my home on wheels. Thank you for family and friends. Thank you for work. Thank you for entertainment and distraction. Thank you for the desire to know you more. Thank you for a lifetime of accomplishments. Thank you for purposely and meaning. Thank you for the loves intimacy and friendship. Thank you for meditation. Thank you for walking and dogs. Thank you for vehicles.

It’s a new day.  I am here in my motorhome. My friend from childhood is buying a trailer home even now. I’m pleased for him. He once lived in an RV in the hills of LA. He has a large family. They care for him. I’m preparing to reunite with family.  I have a long drive ahead. I pick up my truck and camper in a couple,of days.  I brought the Honda 3200- generator home from the storage locker last night. It will provide electricity to my Starlink so I can continue my virtual work.  I’ll only need that wheel I’m boon docking. Other times I stay in campgrounds with electricity. I hope to do a mix.  It’s a week travel to Ottawa.  I’ll take a week or so to visit.  I’m playing it by ear.  The settled world doesn’t understand the variables of travel. I pray I’ll make it there and back without a glyph.  It’s twice the distance I go in winter.

This winter I’m planning on heading south in my new Thor Hurricane motorhome. I want to do shakedown drives to Whistler RV.  Maybe Laura can get the time off for the Pemberton Lillouett loop. I’ve wanted to do that again. I’d thought of doing it on the Hzrlye with Madigan on the back.  I’m planning on taken the motorcycle to Spokane this summer. There’s an IDAA conference at the end of July.  The world conference of AA is the first we’re.  50,000 plus coming to Vancouver to celebrate sobriety.  I’ll be able to visit with friends I’ve met around the world. Just being a part of something so spiritual and inspirational will be a joy.  It will be like the North Shore round up or IDAA on steroids. A busy schedule.  I celebrate a cake in June as well.  I will have my motorboat back if all goes well.  I’m hopeful but appreciative of ehallenge of the endeavour. 

All has gone well. I’ve been praying every day. The good news was that I didn’t need eye surgery.  

God is loving.  I came here to see the hologram exhibit in 1987.  I’d so loved the physics of the hologram, that any sliver of the picture could recreate the whole.  I have loved the digital computer with the 1 and 0 creating its own world and foundations of life.  I and God.  Atman.  i and Thou.  I long to know thy will and have the power to carry it out.  Always I try to imagine you in me and of me and the myriad creation emanating from the unity.  I love DNA with its simple code that makes up life.  I remember in high school being moved by the table of elements and later enjoying chemistry seeing  biochemistry in three dimensional images in my student apartment as I studied. I drew diagrams and put them on the wall like I’d done learning French and Spanish with stickers put on all the items in the kitchens.  

Now I’m looking at the hanging which Ron gave me with all the knots and international code of signals.  There’s been so much to learn in dance, music, medicine, psychiatry, wilderness, sailing, expeditioning, motorcycleing, hunting, fishing.  

I wonder why my back hurts in the morning. I sleep well and am rested to day waking at 6 am . I suspect it’s lack of exercise and stretching. I need to do yoga and tai chi again. I need to swim and hike. I’m so sedentary with work and while Madigan is a good physiotherapist and coach I need to take direction from him and walk more.  I was so impressed with Cathie doing a marathon. It was wonderful to see her begin training last year and completing her task running daily with increasing distance till she did the distance.  

I’ve had a coffee and am ready for another. Thank you God for coffee.  Thank you God for yoghurt too.  Thank you God for running water and refrigeration and the furnace and air conditioning that make this place so comfortable.  Thank you for all your blessings and help me always to focus on the positive and to live a life of gratitude. 

Thank you Jesus





















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