Ukraine...How are You?

Somehow, someone likes my blog in Ukraine.  Whoever you are, I appreciate the interest.  Let me know how you found my wrting and why you visit.

Just shows how absolutely global our world is.
I was in Kiev several times in the 1970's and 1980's....Odessa in 1986.....

Strosvoitzia!

Thanksgiving and Homecoming

Most of the things we all are actually thankful for are the basic things of life.  Our warm house and bed, our loved ones who wait for us every day.  The ones we depend on and depend on us.  Our dog, our cat.

Yet, sometimes Thanksgiving gives us something completely new.  Something worth living an extra mile for, an extra year or more for...maybe a whole life for.....it blows us away because it is such a gift that we could never have even imagined it, nor asked for it.  Usually, these extraordinary gifts are people and things brought to us through new people.

Every year's new gifts.  That's it.  The New Gifts of Thanksgiving.

These may not even be at home.  They may be out in the street.  They may originate far from home and in strange places,,,,they may seem to come as strange gifts.  Yet, after we look, we look twice and we just get turned around.

Thanksgiving is not neat and orderly and predictable.  It is the Season of the most serendipity,  If you believe in Whiteflash, it gives us the gift of life, through people who likely end up staying with us as major forces in our life.  True gifts. 

We can ask for the gifts like this.  No guarantee.  There seems to be some extra grace added by the Creator to deliverance of the gifts.  We need some modesty, some humor, and some patience.....But, if the elements are just right, get prepared for one of the most incredible Thanksgivings of your life. 

I know that for me, to thank is better than to ask .....and it is better to thank than want.   Genesis of love and new good things starts with honest thanking........

My year brought me some new souls I now love so much, and  some new friends.  They have the potential to change my life.  I guess I could say this Thanksgiving, it was the people, not the turkey that mattered.  Turkeys taste good, but people always are the ones we base our life on.    The rocks of life like Plymouth Rock was a long time ago.....It has never changed.  It is the Creator's statement that some things we can touch and come back next year and touch again.....

I am grateful to all our troops and the men and women who protect us at their life's risk.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

White Flash in the Most Inconspicuous Places

The great thing about Whiteflash is that it does appear at the most amazing moments...like when we least expect it...or when just maybe, our deep intuition does expect it....let me explain...

You are down and depressed and exhausted, and then, just then, there is a huge storm and a rainbow....it happened today on my way home on the freeway!

The nature of Whiteflash is that it has a curious almost mind of its own, yet one we can understand and even sense before things happen...collective conscious?  Preconscious state of mind?  Maybe, but there is something about the state of mind we are in....If you are not open-minded to the possibilities, you will not see what could happen and may miss the golden serendipity...

We can't guarantee Whiteflash moments in our lives....but we cannot ever be so bold to say that they will not show up....

New life grabs us and gives us deep purpose to live and thrive again....amazing people just become gifts....
Whiteflash comes in from far places...and yet, Whiteflash was there all along, just a breath away....