“No wind can bring down the fruit before it is ready to fall.”
- Gary Zukav
This Monday’s letter is arriving late, as I have been playing the role of a gypsy this morning and traipsing across the desert, just now arriving in California. It is a little before noon Pacific Time as these words emerge from me. Hard to believe that just early on, yesterday morning, I was fighting the snow of Vail pass. Today with approximately1600 miles, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and the Mojave Desert under my belt I have arrived safe and “somewhat” sound (that is still to be determined).
Upon awakening this morning, I was not feeling very victorious. There I was in this horrendous Las Vegas Casino Hotel (Whiskey Pete’s to be exact). The only one I could find that would take my trusty traveling companion, my dog, Samantha, as I tried to get a few hours of sleep. While Sam was as snug as a bug on a rug (this morning’s picture) the hotel with its clang of slot machines and its ghastly smell of cigarettes, had gotten the better of me.
Truth be told, I really do hate Las Vegas!! The book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas came to mind as I barreled out of there before the sun had a chance to make it up over the beautiful desert mountains at 6:30 this morning. I was a chick on a mission, heading towards the interstate with the sole intention of getting as many miles between my van and Vegas as possible. My destination – Los Angeles, and my Mom.
Shaking off the crud of the overnight adventure I got back into the groove I was in before arriving in Vegas yesterday afternoon around 5. The open road is a great way to open your mind, your heart, your being to the world around you.
I do love the drive to LA from Boulder (minus Vegas), truly a place to dub with the name “God’s Country”. Every piece of beauty is more engaging than the one before. Driving with just Sam in the van with me, left lots of time for reflection and opening my mind to the fact that I have decided to spend the next month in California. Listening to several books on tape (something my kids would have never stood for!) with themes of inspirational stories, I just let my mind go. The hours flew by.
With my Mom looking at her options in her cancer treatment it just seemed that I needed to make my life a little portable right now, hit the road and spend the month ahead with her. It seems somewhat strange, and yes surreal, to realize that yes, I could still operate my business from the phone and from my laptop no matter where in the world I find myself. It is the beauty of technology after all and a gentle reminder of one of the reasons I am in business for myself. For those of you getting this letter that I know in the LA area I look forward to the opportunity to connect with you in the month ahead.
What I found to be true, once I made the decision to go to LA for the month in just a couple of days it fell together. Just as I heard Gary Zukav say in today’s quote (on a CD from his book, Soul to Soul, yesterday in the car) the fruit was ripe for the pickin’.
How many times, once you make up your mind to do something, do you find that it is as if the event was just waiting for you to make it happen? How many times because we are stuck in our “routine” do things not happen because we didn’t open ourselves up to the possibilities of it?
I am open to what the week ahead and month of May have in store. Hoping that you are too! One thing for sure I am looking forward to writing and writing some more. What better way to kick it off than to have my good friend, Cynthia Morris as our guest on the Wednesday Wisdom Teleseminar this week? If you have been meaning to join us for one of these free, nearly weekly calls – you don’t want to miss this one! It is entitled, Write Your Way to Success, Use Writing to Grow Your Business. More Info Here.
Get yourself out there and find out what is ripe for the pickin!
