Synchronicity…
Last night we were honoured to be guests at the ‘gin off’, because we don’t make gin…! This is an annual ‘event’ where my old friends – who I have run many many miles with on the South Downs – make sloe gin from the sloe berries that grow wild on the South Downs…
In September they gather for an evening of eating drinking and socialising, and sloe gin tasting and ‘judging’… Anadi and I joined in with that bit and enjoyed the delicious food and the fun of catching up with our friends…
We then left them to the serious business of the gin tasting competition…
Today the two of us rose early and ran to the sea front, where we were greeted in spectacular fashion by the dawn – we bathed in the early sun streaking and splashing its red energy across the sky… As we ran along we witnessed the light circling and spiralling inward and around until there was just an ball of yellow orange light hanging in the sky above the sea… The chilly breeze soon softened as the warmth rose over the land we ran on – the rough stone sea front, the springy grass…
On the top of the Downs we heard a shout ‘have you forgotten your shoes…?’
And there speeding along on their bikes were Jim and Gordy who we had seen last night at the ‘gin off’… Of all the ‘bike riders’ who were there last night, these two were the only two to make it out this morning – to clear their heads and to celebrate a triumphant win, and podium places from the ‘gin off’ last night!
Gordy had won the outright pure gin; and Jim had two third places, one for the blend category…
How wonderful, the timing… The exact spot where we all met… We couldn’t have planned it and as always I wondered in the energetic resonance, the magnetic power of energy…The synchronicity… How we will meet who we meet; if we were to see ourselves in energy or in colour we would see more clearly where the resonance is; how the patterns and frequency is moving, bouncing and merging – and how it is all unfolding….
It can give us an opportunity to reflect more deeply and to notice our souls path unfolding… For, however confusing it may seem, in this life, this journey – there is a rhythm and a resonance, patterns are playing out and it is all part of the dance of the universe…
The more we let go, the more we can enjoy the ride…
Some people thoroughly enjoy being on a big dipper, a roller coaster… Others are terrified…
The only certain thing about being here is that nothing is certain – at a ‘mental’ level – and yet when we surrender and let go, when we embrace the roller coaster it is possible to reach the place within where everything is still, and then we are at ease and there is a certainty in trusting…
Night follows day, and day follows night. For all the despair in the world, there is an equal amount of joy.
If we stretch our arms out to the side and we deem one finger to be negativity and one to be positivity; when we look to one finger then we can’t see the other… And so it is…
If we think the world is a dark place and we are looking there then that is what we see; if we think all is love and light and we are looking that way then that is what we see.
But when we know that both are true; in the same way that night exists and so does day… But that there is a place beyond this. A place beyond opinion agenda light and dark; a place of pure silence; then we stop the see saw of looking this way and that, swinging between dark and light, joy and despair – and a radiant light space reveals itself; pure bliss…
We hugged the boys goodbye and ran on; the sparkly day lending itself to a very clement run and then again, the energy swirled and whirled in magical patterns across the sky as we ran down the hill, because coming up the hill towards us was Carol – Jim’s wife – who we have never seen out running before..
Synchronicity, serendipity… Energy communicating, connecting, drawing together, resonating reverberating all across the land…
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.As a little girl I ran barefoot for many years, and then I put on shoes to race around the world. Fifty years later I am travelling the world as a nomad with my husband Anadi and I have taken off my shoes and I am running barefoot again….
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