Red Mountain Resort

     It feels so good to be home. Home. Where I put my feet up and rest after perhaps some of the best days of my year. Do I start to share about how marvelous & necessary it is for me to climb into my own bed. Or do I start with how wonderful & necessary it was to climb into theirs?  The Red Mountain Resort absorbed me. It was in the deepest richest earth the southwest states provide that I met up with cousins from all across the country to gather. You should go. You should gather. Everyone should. It's a bit pricey but worth every penny. I mean, you are pampering yourself! The Great Medicine Wheel does revolve around the "self" don't ya know. The self is from where all else flows, right? Yeah. It's okay to be self absorbed to a healthy degree. It's okay. Sometimes it's even necessary. The rusty red sandy beaches appear and they are real. Not a mirage. The ponds but a puddle this time of year I'm told. The red rock mountains is where my body became alive again. Five day spa intensives are new to me. My battered body reprieved and an energy came about that swept me along the best gal pal week ever.
     My mind sometimes stalls. It just stalls. Stops. Stop period. Blank. And damn it-it was an important link to what I meant to say. Oftentimes thoughts come back. Oftentimes again, my body would rake with a heaviness so severe my opposite hand was needed to lift me from my powerful pain. The arthritis flares in my thumb. The same thumb that my cousin Joanne feels it.  Maybe the energy in them there hills will revive us further still as we take out into our world the things we experienced. Our own personal healing session. I hope. A girl can hope. From our first giddy glance across the baggage claim, I saw her walking toward me waving & coming my way. My cousin on my moms side whom I adored growing up with her dark hair and happy smile, youthful eyes. I spotted her and felt so connected. Instantly...I did for the entire time & it just kept on getting better because 2 minutes later after a big hug and a big smile I met my next cousin. About 8 minutes later we met up with another cousin and then a few minutes later, wait for it......we met up with two other cousins! The farmer, the chemist, the admirals wife. The trainer, the CEO all here with me at the Las Vegas baggage claim. Las Vegas, Nevada is a busy locale with many drivers holding names.  Leeza Gibbons. As if... Florida, California, Wisconsin, Indiana and Virginia Beach & more... Vegas Baby...but we headed to the Whole Foods, bought ourselves some excellent healthy food and off for the two and half hour scenic drive to St. Geaorge, Utah that was just a delight. Yes. That's what it was and that's what I felt. Delight. I am delighted. The key to a good life is to not turning on the TV. Delightful! Our stint began. We began with enthusiastic energy for renewed vitality to rest down our minds and strenghten our bodies. We began to unwind and explore externally, internally and we concluded the stay with a reverence for sending out, through our cleansed and renewed breathe, into the dimensions, prayer to our ancestors beyond. Prayers for ' all that is and can be' as our fire circle and the labyrinth circle echoed around this massive glowing full moon which lit up earth over this vast desert on this most rare  & superbly unusual evening of perspective of our earths' pull.  Yeah, turn off the TV. There is a life we are supposed to be living outside, truly outside of the square box we know. Individually, collectively...I don't have to tell you that. When silence prevails and nature is near and you hike thru it, it penetrates all that is. How feeble a magnetized TV screen when all that truly matters is in nature. It penetrates deep. I did not know that . It can vibrate. It does vibrate. Nature vibrates. I did not know that sans the wind and an occasional earthquake. This is where you will find peace. This is where I found peace. In nature. As I really reflect...perhaps this wasn't just some of the best days of my year but of my life. In nature, in peace with loved ones. Yeah, this is why I fought to live. Thank you.