The Shift ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

There it was on the calendar of the church I went to today: "The Shift"!  YAY!!!! 

I have been so excited about seeing this movie by Wayne Dyer and here it is!  I could have just spit!  I was able to stay to watch it this afternoon.  It was different than I expected it to be as I thought it was addressing the shift happening in the world ~ humanity's shift.  But it was about the shift that happens in the later seasons of one's life.  I guess it fit metaphorically.  It was beautifully done!  I loved every moment as he walked through human stages of growth toward wisdom.  I highly recommend this for everyone!

The movie touched my soul.  I felt like he was speaking to me personally.  It softened my outlook on myself and I realized that I need to give myself space.  Lots of it, actually.  Space to breath.  Space to listen.  Space to make mistakes and be wrong.  Space to celebrate, too. 

I am so very hard on myself, especially lately.  Here we are in Eugene near family, three weeks into our journey.  The weather is fair during the day, but the nights get pretty cold, like 30 degrees and damp.  We don't want to intrude on Jacob's household of young men, but we don't have any heat in Santiago as our propane tanks are empty and I need to make money to fill them.  Yuck.  I feel stuck here and frankly, a bit desperate.  But that is part of the journey and I want to experience all of it fully. 

"Dragon" has a vegetable farm in Willamette Valley now, but used to have a soul food restaurant on the Oregon Coast AND he knows Five Points in Denver (my hometown!).  He is a happy person, for sure.  We chatted for a bit at the Saturday Farmer's Market today (yes, they are open on Sundays, too).  He said with a huge grin, "So Eugene has been good to you!  Welcome."  He's right!  I found a job likity-split and have meet FABULOUS people here!  It's all in how you see it.  I am blessed!  I just need to look at it from the correct lens. 

Tee hee hee.  Sis and I convinced the boys to let us both sleep in the house tonight (we sneaked the kitties in, too).

Today I choose joy! (Thanks, Rev. Linda)

Gratitude! Thanks! Appreciation!

Here I sit in my son's first house far from our Denver home.  We just cut up bread, onions and celery in preparation for our Spearfish Shed Stuffing we got a few years ago while spending Thanksgiving with Grandma Welker.  Although everything around us is new ... we are here together with familiar smiles and old stories told for the um-teenth time :)  I am so grateful for this opportunity to spend this holiday with Jakie and JJ, Clay and Casey in Eugene. 

This IS what life is for.  For the things so simple and precious! 

I also wanted to share a new photo of Santiago with his new ribbons ... cool, eh?

With love and gratitude to turkey and stuffing, Spiderman and Georgie, sunshine and blue skies,

Lisa

Spiritual Travelers

Well, not only am I a spiritual traveler and adventurer, but I found more "me's" out there! 

Today I was welcomed into a Eugene community with open arms.  Diane found me sitting in the back of the room.  She took me by my hand and introduced me to a plethera of folks!

Diane and her partner, Tamara, are retired and now reside here in this Oregon valley.  They have traveled the world with their life's work as healers of both body and heart.  Then there is Viktor ... a retired physical therapist traveling to Mexico soon for the winter months in his homemade RV.  He said it has a king-size bed inside!  Wow!  I also met Dr. Dean ... a peace leader here in Eugene! 

More soon ... off to a coffeehouse in The Whitaker!

Flying M in downtown Boise ID

So hip and trendy! Named after the Myers family farm. Thet have a roastery and a coffee garage in Nampa, too.

Belts and Squeals and Magic

Yesterday we enjoyed the first super-sunny, warm day of our trip doing miscellaneous repairs and attaching weatherstripping to the air leaks we found in Santiago after awaking in the WalMart parking lot in Twin Falls, ID.  It was almost glorious!  We were able to open some windows to release some of the stale air.  It is probably stinky air after 2 days of no showers :)  Who are we to say?

My mom reminded me of a town in Idaho that carries the name of her father's family ... Filer.  Well - lucky for us it was only 6 miles outside of town.  We went in search of Filers in Filer (pop 1,620), but sadly none were listed in the phone book and noone in town knew of any.  Oh well.  At least we got some pictures of stuff that tout the Filer name :) looked SO cool to see Filer Police cars and Filer High School!

Time to head to Boise via Interstate 84, we are only using the interstates if weather, time or money ask us to.  SQUEAL!  SQUEAL!  SQUEEEEEEEEEEALLLLLLLL!  Snap.  No more squeal.  Our alternator belt snapped off as we accellerated onto I-84.  What now?  Was it really the belt?  Maybe it was a rock.  It was nice to not have the squeal anymore (I must admit).  "Just get us to Boise, Santiago"!

Santiago didn't get us there, but dropped us off in Wendell, ID just 30 miles outside of Twin Falls right between an auto parts store and a mechanic.  Oh ... and just so happened to be across the street from Java Go ... the town's only coffeehouse (and salon - great idea).  Cindy @ CarQuest was able to find the right belt (we tried 3) and Raphael @ Gonzoles' Auto Repair put it (them) on.  Whew.  We were on the road again by 11:30 toward Bliss.  Yes ... Bliss is a town in Magic Valley, ID.  Magical people, indeed, and a perfect place to be stranded.

SPECIAL thanks to Pompy (my stepdad) ... he foot the bill for the repairs!  THANK YOU!!!!!!  We would have been sweeping the highway for days to earn the money for that.  Now we can be in Eugene with Jakie for Thanksgiving :)

Right now we are in the RedLetter Book Store & Cafe in Boise getting caught up.  Look for photos soon :)

Wind & Sunshine, Lisa

Communication .... too many options for me

I am trying to streamline my communicaiton ... I thought I had it figured out between my website, facebook, twitter, blog, email, blackberry, ... yikes!  MMS or email, or text ... how to get photos uploaded and comments from others downloaded ???

UGH!  Patience, once again has raised its head.  My lesson for now (and always?), I suppose.
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Today we went to Hailey Coffee Co where Carrie, the owner, is amazing and involved in her community.  We chatted for about an hour.  The next place is Zaney's River Street Coffee ... and employee of theirs, Bowe, is a private in the Army and was captured in Afghanistan over the summer ... more to come.  I'm intrugued to find out more.  The city is covered in yellow ribbons in his honor.

Peace and love!

We did it!  We got our blog to have its own page in our website!  YAY!

We are at Elevated Grounds and the Baristas are SUPER COOL!  They are just like family here.  This spot was a Starbucks, and when they puled out of Jackson, some of the former employees started their own coffeehouse ... the community insisted.  Full of love and happiness for sure!

It is starting to snow in Jackson Village so we are off to Idaho Falls, ID!

Lyric Cinema Cafe. They both have Bahkti chai. Yummy :)

One thing we have discovered so far: coffee houses should always have stickers! The "Bucket" should always have stickers. Today we went to Bean Cycle and