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HELLO, GORGEOUS SPIRITED CIRCLE OF FRIENDS!
I hope as you all sit and read this from your destined corners of our big blue ball, you each feel all pretty things stirring inside of you ...
- Faith! That you are exactly where your journey is supposed to have led you, right here, this very moment.
- Freedom! To have a stream of consciousness every day, to decide where you want to put your energy, how you want to spend your days, and who you want to be.
- Connection! To the universe and all others, so that you know that what happens to some of us, eventually happens to the rest of us because we are all connected.
- Love! For yourself, for all other breathing beings, and for the very unique, very beautiful gifts that you each give to all of us, and to our connected lifetimes.
I am writing to share with our growing circle of friends -- as many of you have heard from our Facebook community or at our Kombucha workshop last night -- that my son Richie and I will be moving to Greenwich this summer. And ... yes! Our group will continue to meet several times a month as we currently do (summer months are fewer re: vacations), as it is with such honor that I facilitate our healthy workshops, groovy gatherings, and empowering, friendship circles. I continue to see all of you enlighten others with your teachings, inspire with your journeys, and embrace each other with your love. And are those not our commonalities, and greatest desires -- to learn, to share, to love, to feel connected?
When I started our meetup group in early 2008, it was a prophecy as we were all so craving to find each other! I watched each of you curiously (maybe cautiously?) attend your first meetings ... and then proudly saw many of you warmly welcome & hug newcomers into our circle who were like you had been, in search for a *healthy family* of life-loving, positive-living beings. These past few years, you have grown, I have grown, and we have grown together.
Our last group photo at group member Pauli Ayoub's house this past Sunday,
where he hosted a 'Kombucha Making Workshop'
I receive emails from many people every day. Asking advice, sharing a resource, giving gratitude, just saying hey. Each makes me smile, each matters. Some I even print to keep in my journal, to remember forever! A very special one stands out in my recent mind, though.
A group member who had been away from our meetings for some time, sent me a note. “It is almost as if while I was gone I knew I had a family to come back to, who would welcome me back,” this person wrote to me. So beautiful, these words are to me. With invisible hearts and smiley faces imaginations along the margins of my reply email, I wrote back to our friend.
And a piece of that message, I extend to your hearts as well:
Everyone is a piece to someone else's very own personal puzzle. Everything we learn, every time we hurt, every stumble & trip we make, it's all majestically designed to bring us to where we need to be. Nothing's random, you know that ... and when we keep our face to the sun, our eyes & heart wide open ... well, we invite the universe to let such pretty things into our lives.
And sure we open up to hurting too ... but odds are that there are more people who want to love us than hate us, and more times people will accept our extended hand in theirs, than walk past us. I believe if we love ourselves first, it won't matter if those we want to love us don't ... because those who *deserve* us, will. Dig?
Without a doubt, the paradigms which we coast along with will eventually shift & break open -- and being raw to what happens next is such a wonderful feeling. Even when the tears come, it's a good cry. And when you laugh, it's a dancing barefoot kind of giggle.
It’s good to trust your own sail ... someone can tell you to, suggest that you do, but until your spirit is ready, you won't be full face, front and center. Find the edge of your yellow brick road ... but be open to embracing the dark along the way - remember, these are gifts. But only if you are awake at your driver's wheel to recognize them for what they're worth (lessons, growth, aha!s). So stay awake, sweet friend.
 Why I share all of this ... is that I have had many reminders lately that home truly is not where we hang our hat, but instead where we invest our heart. I have elected to "staying awake" by "choosing love over fear (or the unknown)," and am working to mindfully create a positive life shift, and a new normal for myself and my son. It's all about the journey, we know.
And so, I am happy-hearted about moving to Greenwich for a better high school opportunity for Richie, and to create a new home with my partner and his children ... but I will never be far away, and will look forward to seeing
everyone just as much as we do now. Family, friends, boy scouts,
connections ... life will bring me back here often. And like our friend above, I feel so comforted in knowing I will always have a “home” with all of you, to come home to. Indeed, I invest my heart in all of you.
I really love you all.
And feel much of your love, back.
And appreciate each of you, oh so much, in my life.
Kumbaya my precious brothers & sisters,
Rosa
NHHLA Coordinator
203.910.7552
BY THE WAY!
I have just begun to look for a renter for my Naugatuck townhouse!
I LOVE YOU NOT ONLY FOR WHAT YOU ARE,
BUT FOR WHAT I AM WHEN I AM WITH YOU.
I LOVE YOU NOT ONLY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE MADE OF YOURSELF,
BUT FOR WHAT YOU ARE MAKING OF ME.
I LOVE YOU FOR THAT PART OF *ME* THAT YOU BRING OUT.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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