I’m semi Woo Woo.
I find I am often in the middle. I go to far-out groups, and say, “Okay guys, dampen it a little.”
If I’m in the mainstream group, I say, “I’m out of here.”
Motivated by Caz Makepeace's #Y Travel blog, I am adding my two dimes and a nickel's worth.
I am astounded at how many travel bloggers are out there, and how many travel full time. #Caz Makepeace is one. She travels with her husband, two young daughters, and has a highly successful blog and website.
I am in awe.
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Back to the blog: I have traveled a bit and loved it. I stood beside the Parthenon in Athens Greece as a golden sunrise enlivened it.
I climbed the stepped pyramid at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan and stood at what was once called the “Holy of Holies,” that room at the tip top.
From my lofty perspective, I looked out over what was once a city, the temple of the warriors, the ball court and the Yucatan Peninsula where the horizon was flat as a pencil line drawn across the page of my vision.
I’ve been to some places, but as you can imagine there is a whole world that I have not touched. I believe as Caz puts it “Travel is not to run away, but toward.’
Perhaps our move to Hawaii was to run away, and that’s the reason we didn’t like it, but I have no regrets. To travel is to rise above and beyond who we are, to experience a new day every day, and to step out of our present conditions.
Imagine sitting in a dandelion-dotted field in Germany, the green so green it brings tears to your eyes, and you are eating cold pizza from the night before, and it is the best you have ever tasted.
“When you travel, life around you is constantly changing. This means you never get lost in the blur of mundaneness. You’re highly aware of what is happening, how things move from one day to the next, and how to flow with change.
“It’s a mindfulness so easy to tap into, which is why I feel travel is so addictive.´--Caz
Can you remember what happened last Tuesday? I can’t.
Regarding her travel blog Caz writes: “It feels like it’s not very powerful because you’re just helping someone find a good burger, but in reality, we’re helping people create moments and memories. It’s those moments and memories that shape and impact their lives and lead them to new horizons and help them experience JOY.”
Caz went on to talk about Chakras and cleansing, and going to a spiritual medium, and said, ““Believe me when I say that writing this post brings me tears.”
She wanted to write about who she was but in doing so felt vulnerable and felt that people would judge her as being woo woo, or cuckoo and she realized that she was afraid of being criticized.
I realized, too, that here on this blog I have dampened who I was because I feared people would think I was cuckoo, but in the process I come across lukewarm.
I do not want to be lukewarm, but then I wonder who am I. What do I believe, and what do I want to share?
And blogs can be so self-centered, but then what choice do we have, you aren’t here talking to me. It is a one-way conversation.
As I mentioned before I intend to go to a Tony Robbins 3-day event in November, and I know some people love him, while others have a strong negative reaction. He is threatening. He doesn’t pull punches. He has been doing his work for so long he can read people and that is scary.
People are going to think whatever thoughts they want so we might as well do our thing and let the chips fall where they may.
"The possibility of having dreams come true is what makes life interesting,"--Paulo Coelho