Eternal Friendship
Anadi and I headed out of Eastbourne just after 5.30 yesterday afternoon…
We were excited to be on our way to meet my nephew Jamie who had already arrived at Gatwick and checked into the Premier Inn…
I texted him to let him know we on our way and then turned to Anadi
‘What an amazing and enriching eleven days!’
He agreed…
We have had such a wonderful time, so many special occasions…
Jane and I met Simon – who is my wonderful editor of GFAY nine years ago – and we make a point of meeting each year on our meeting day February 6th, we swap our friendship plaque over and this year it is in Jane’s care for the year…
So on Saturday we all met again in Ten Green Bottles and Simon ceremoniously handed it over… As usual we commented on the grammatical error with the omission of the apostrophe!
‘Lifes truest happiness is in the friendships we make along the way’
And we also had the yearly picture taken…!
We love our ritual and as it has now been unbroken for nine years, we are now all resolved to continue it forever…
February 6th is also the anniversary of my mother’s passing… Forty years this year…
She gave me life, and my wonderful sister Rosy and I thank her and our father for this with all my heart…
Rosy and I had a chance to meet too, on Tuesday…
We met for breakfast at the Grand as she was in the area to work…
The time went too fast of course, but she says she likes me being a nomad as we make sure we meet when I am back and so we might even be seeing more of each other than before I flew off…
The rich tapestry of relationship, love friendship is so evident as we journey. Communication, connection and relating has been my driving force all of my life and both through the journey of life and this nomadic path I am discovering that my connection to myself deepens, paradoxically through shedding and letting go of my attachments, both to things and my inner restrictions….
So the relationships are deepening, blossoming, growing, expanding and I see the truth of love and know that separation is an Illusion, perpetuated by the Illusion we are believing – the reality we see with our eyes, which is created by us.
However hard it may be to believe, we are entirely responsible for the way we see things…
Tuesday afternoon…
In Urban Ground for another book party… I see clearly, as perhaps those who have ‘book partied’ with me that my book ‘Girlfriend for a Year’ is incidental…
It is something I originally planned to write for me, as I dared to leap again, to embrace another committed relationship, to journey deeper into myself with Anadi.
When I committed to be a Girlfriend for a year, I decided to record ‘what happened ‘ – As I wrote I saw that there might be something of value for others in my journey
And so I have offered it out…
But really and truly, the gatherings I have enjoyed with a room full of wonderful amazing souls has not been about selling my book, although that has been a nice reason to ‘throw a party’…
It has been about joining together, being together, celebrating love and connection and honouring that we are all one…
Consciousness and love expressing itself and experiencing a human journey…
Thursday afternoon…
And now we are in Gozo…
Jamie, Anadi and I have travelled here together, already our time together special and memorable, and in half an hour we are off to run together across the cliffs to Hondoc Bay….
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run. In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression. I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it to express itself in the dance and the motion of running. I ran for England and GB for some years. My first international was in 1979, a three mile cross country race; and I continued to run at international level until 1993. Two of my best results were first place in the Dublin City Marathon in 1985 and 7th place woman, 3rd British woman in the 1986 London Marathon in a time of 2.36.31, which gained me selection for the Commonwealth Games.
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