I have arrived!!! Who knew it could get this good!
I am in Santa Barbara with my dear friend Anna Banana. I
knew I would visit her… she was definitely at the top of the list of people to
see. … I didn’t know when I would pop in or how I would arrive.
Well, let me tell you folks… I arrived in such a beautiful
magical way… I seriously feel like I was Harry Potter traveling by train to get
to my school of wizardry.
Let us start where I left off … I had spent the Christmas
holiday in Union Square San Francisco California, being escorted by a dear
friend …
Day after Christmas we were to check out of our hotel… Plans
were that (my son) Dallen and his
girlfriend (Anu) were going to pick
us up, take my friend to the bus stop and take me home with them to her grandparents’
house. (Originally the plans were that we
would meet up and make our way to my other son, Kai’s house in San Jose and
chill until Dallen and Anu flew to Maui New Year’s Eve… with them purchasing
their tickets as such; flying out of San Jose)
We drop off my friend to the bus stop and I join Dallen, Anu
and her mother to go get a bite to eat. After lunch I am informed that the
grandparents are not feeling well and there is no room at the Inn.
You see, is what
happened… as far as I know… Kai thought he would be back from his visit to Utah
the day after Christmas and it was confirmed that we would go to his house…
Sometime between us confirming with Kai; Dallen and Anu purchasing their tickets
out of San Jose to Maui and Kai leaving on the road trip to Utah plans changed
and Kai failed to tell us that he wasn’t going to be back until a week after
the New Year…
Backup plan… stay at grandparents until I can get a train
ticket to Santa Barbara which wasn’t until the next day; I just need one night.
Well after seriously just patiently waiting to see what is
going to be orchestrated, because I have no idea which way or what, things
finally did. … In my knowing I knew I was
going to end up at Kai’s house, I just thought he would be there.
Dallen, admirably sticking by my side seeing that his mother
was taken care of even if he had to purchase a hotel room for a night, decided
we might as well go back to grandparents and get their things and figure it out
from there as to where we were going and how were we going to get there.
When Dallen and I were given a moment to ourselves I shed a
bit of a tear to Dallen admitting that this is getting a little challenging
keeping faith and not taking this personally that the theme of the year is “no room at the Inn”… no one welcoming
me… feeling the collective rejection energy from the past… having no family for
the holidays … shedding that tear
gracefully mind you. …
With such confidence and belief my son says with such
humility, “Mom the world is your family”.
Such beautiful words that I obviously needed to get solid
with in my programming to move forward because as soon as I accepted his words
of wisdom, things started moving…
Dallen was able to get a hold of Kai getting permission to
bring me with them to his house until they were to fly out instead of getting a
hotel… Perfect!!!
After packing up at grandparents’ house, grandpa said he
felt well enough to give us a ride to Kai’s house, so instead of having to
bus/train (which was going to be pricey)
we just paid gas money to grandpa. God bless grandpa.
We arrived at my son Kai’s house on the 26th of
December… the very day I signed those adoption papers in 1986… 30 years ago… I’m
sure there is some meaning/symbolism to that… 30th anniversary to the loss. … Symbol
for the 30th anniversary is pearl… hmm… the gem… “a precious thing, the finest example of
something”… “Pearls of wisdom”…
we could really spend some time on this… but… some other time.
The magic is on …
Having Kai’s house all to ourselves was the best sense of
belonging Dallen and I could have asked for… I haven’t had such a sense of
belonging since 2011 when the life I knew had started to crumble.
Through Kai’s graciousness in offering his car for our use,
I was able to spoil the household with food. I was ecstatic to be able to gift
the household with my talent of being a homemaker. I bought cleaners and loved
Kai’s home as my own. The three of us relished the quality time at his house.
Poor Dallen came down with what grandparents had. I was so
thankful to have Anu nurturing and loving my son nursing him as well as I used
to and more.
Interesting enough, the only availability the train had was
on the 29th (my test day) departing San Jose at
10:00a.m. Arriving in Santa Barbara at 5:55...
(Have I mentioned that I am a number 5 in
the number world… 555 meaning you are going through a major life change)…
Sad that I will be leaving this party early, I wanted to
stay an extra day with them but when it’s time to go… it’s time to go… got to
go with the flow, Yo…
We arrived to the train station totally on time and checked
my bags in and was informed by the ticket agent that the train was running an
hour late so we could leave and go get breakfast and come back.
Sweet… refreshing how no security it is… so unlike the
airport…
The three of us go to the nearest Whole Foods I check out
with my randomly scooped up hot bar items and my total … $6.66.
Loving all the “synchronicities” I can’t help but to
celebrate with the handsome teller about my magical test day… today being the
day of my take off… my arrival at 555
… and now my purchase being 666 … He
loved it saying I need to go play the slots I’m on a roll and will hit 777 for
sure…
Well, enjoying Dallen by my side witnessing this craziness with
him understanding and knowing how to read this awesome Universe, he points out
that the store has been playing my 80’s music with the current song “Shout” by
Tears for Fears playing at this awareness moment of this magical ride and
making sure I pay note of this added information… (Boy does this kid get it and is connected… This song for me always
symbolizes independence).
The train finally gets in. I had said my goodbyes to Dallen
and Anu and was being herded in line with the others for boarding. The lady
behind me was carrying on that this has been the strangest experience she has
had riding the train. With this being my first rodeo, I wouldn’t have
recognized strange but started to pay attention with her cue.
Right then, a fellow passenger walks by shouting “The Polar Express has arrived, all aboard”…
The lady boarding everyone announces “Folks for this boarding we are not going to be checking tickets, we
normally check everyone but on this one occasion we are just going to get
boarded in a quick orderly fashion”…
Recognizing the magical orchestration of so many strange
things happening, I pay attention … the chick in front of me got distracted
with something that had her fall behind the line making my position for
boarding up one. … I guess they overbooked the train by 35% and were putting
the overflow of people in the observation cart. Me being the one to fill the
last seat in the coach sitting.
As soon as I get settled in my seat the gentlemen that I sat
next to opens up, saying hello, introducing himself acknowledging the magic he
himself is recognizing of having me be the one chosen to sit by him… After all,
he looked like good old St Nick with his gray beard and red sweatshirt …
We had a lovely visit acknowledging all the magic of Universe
flow. Welcoming a like mind that speaks my language; a professional, masters of
all in the healing and arts genre… including past life regression and
hypnotherapy… I couldn’t have asked for a better conversation for this time in
my life.
… Folks, did I mention that Joseph’s next passion to pursue
was to make a movie… this guy has the financial freedom to pursue his passions
embracing life… “A Hui Ho” indeed… I happened to give him my card with the link
to my book when he insisted on giving me his card.
Well after Joseph got off in his neck of the woods of
Monterrey… there was an announcement of another delay in take off because there
has been a thief apprehended and we are waiting for authorities to pick up the
train robber… Wow this train ride has been something else!!!
Finally after what seemed like close to an hour we were on
our way once again… and what to see??? Rolling hills of beautiful green that
are not the norm but because of the freak weather at this time, it looked like
we were in Ireland… and what do we pass on the left after the vineyards??? The men’s prison that is some historical spot…
Love it!!! I can’t help but feel like this Nomad trip is so made specifically
for me. How symbolic everything has been … Loud check points that are
applauding me on my way, if you will.
Finally arriving in Santa Barbara three hours later than
scheduled, I was greeted by Anna’s shock and surprise of how out of the norm my
train experience was… She has ridden the train many times and has never
experienced or heard of such delays and lack of checking tickets that
ultimately is probably why we had a thief that obviously jumped on.
The cherry on top of my train experience… With all the
confusion of them not checking our tickets; train robber; and talk of going to
check our tickets… I had misplaced my ticket that had my claim ticket for my
bags… When I went to get my bags the young cutie was hesitant to release the
bags to me but with a sheepish grin he hands over my bags and compliments my
beautiful eyes and wishes me a good night.
Anna was surprised getting my bags was as easy as that and
celebrated right along with me how good life is when you are flying on this
vibe.
I arrived in the night, so you can only imagine how
pleasantly pleased I was to see the town at first daylight… Folks, I am not
kidding… I HAVE ARRIVED… this place
is all the five star qualities from every beautiful
home/neighborhood/harbor/vacation I have ever experienced all collaborated as
one…. My manifested reality is such a familiarity… Now that is Magic
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