Anadi and I spent our New Year on a mini break within our Christmas break!
We had taken the whole week off to play and be together
And then – to see the New year in – we ‘journeyed’ for just twenty five minutes on the tube – to Richmond…!
Transported in a flash to a completely new land… It was as if we were seeing it for the first time…
The building we stayed overlooking a river across a road – a vast tranquil vista – with parkland just two minutes walk away.
A lovely room to relax in, with sumptuous bed – and a spa to return to after we’d circled the beauteous wooded grassy sandy trails on the first morning of 2022…
The weather like spring – we jogged and talked our way around the landscape we know so well
And yet each step ever new – treading the pathways with others on foot, on bikes – and we waited awhile to cross a trail – as little people on little ponies went by…
All of us were taking our first steps into a new year, a new day, a new hour, minute, second – a new moment…
Creating our lives with each footfall, with each breath
From the source of all creation – all we know and don’t know emerging and ever expanding
We the light of our own lives
Creating and shaping
The energy limitless
When we allow its magic
And forget everything we ever thought we were…
Who we are cannot be thought.
And yet thought is how we create our experiences here…
So it is worth becoming conscious of what we are thinking!
Conscious that we are thinking…! And take time to experience the silence in the gaps between thoughts.
And then when we witness from this place of stillness
We can watch our lives unfolding
In each step.
This step when we live it fully – wholly – always takes care of the next…
However many times I have run around Richmond park – and I have been doing so for over forty years now – it is always different….
New, fresh, magic, holding the promise of the fresh, without end or beginning.
Life shimmering in every breath we take.
What a gift we have, this wonderful opportunity
To be here, now
Alive