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MAKING THE TRANSITION (and just go with my flow...I'm letting myself write from random thoughts)

So I'm writing to you on a day that feels very lonely. It is dawning on me, that I am someplace inbetween. Not yet German, not in Spain and no longer in the United States. Today, I realized that I've got to begin to let go of the last attachments to my previous culture and to begin to immerse myself in the German culture, the Bavarian culture, which is truly special.

So many people have said," Annie, when are you learning German?" So I've had plenty of signs to start, and I will sign up by the end of this week.

Last night I read from Frances Scovel Schinn's book, " The Game of Life" . This book should be read, if no other. You will understand what it means, what you must do, to attract what you truly want, into your life. It's a very small book and very profound. We are returned to the simple truths about life, that all of us have strayed so far from in growing up in this current culture.

This is a time, I also have many thoughts about what our world is changing into, and I can see why my inner longing for a self-sustaining, profitable, educational and crafting community, The Jewel , was born.

Yesterday, I glanced at a video clip from some news sent through the Impossible Promise Keepers..It was of children born deformed from the radioactive substances ingested by the birthing parents...parents in Iraq. I don't usually even look at news. The most news I see is the headlines from Yahoo. It was another wake-up call for me. I don't need much.

And then today, I read the texts of presentations from the last Ecovillage Network Conference about what they see that will be the evolution for all of us who willingly flow with what's wanting to happen, further down the road...click here to read some of the presentations. This was encouraging once again. Many wonderful changes are happening for all of us..we've just got to let go of old paradigms...really let go. I'll say more about this as I go along. I'm sensing what the presenters at the Conference are sensing...we're going back to local sustainable communities and simpler and joyful living. I'm starting now!


And where I want to shine my light is.... on what I know in my heart will work. For the last few days, I have been writing about what The Jewel Community will look like, and I've been studying other communities and organizations that support the formation of sustainable communities. Online today, I visited a beautiful community, a community created 20 years ago in northern Italy called, http://www.damanhur.info/ It's a community that allows for the natural springing forth of spiritual inspiration through the expression of the arts by ordinary people. People connecting with spirit and enlivening their community with rich spiritual connection through the arts.

In my own experience, my true inspiration comes, when I allow the time to create, create with artistic tools and create freely. Just to imagine an entire community where free self-expression in the arts is given free reign by the participants!

That's all for tonight. Miracles are truly happening all the time..and who Im being is relishing the moment.