noise

We’ve been working on settling in over the past few days. Lots going on.. the three of us working on setting up the next few months. A few opportunities for joe; job and living wise. A few options for us living wise, trying to sort them all out…. and we thought the journey ended with that last 4 miles! NOT

We’ve enjoyed visits with family, stopping to smell the roses, not driving all day… all good.

We went to a great spiritual sitting last night, where one of the messages was “be still.  listen”. It reminded me of the journey we just took.

I’m not a big road trip girl. In the past, what i need on trips like that is entertainment. Music, talking books, radio, talking. Deb and i have taken a few trips together, and somehow they flow in silence.

None the less, as an ever prepared girlscout pre trip, i packed the ipod with entertaining stuff. Because pre this trip i went on my own road trip in BBF#1 and 2′s SUV with Sirus radio and felt THAT’s Totally What We need to Cross a Country.

Somehow this road trip didn’t include any of that… it was about silence, listening, awareness, and it came without words, it came naturally. It was lovely.

Fact. In all of the 8,000 km we did we only put the radio on once through texas as we felt we needed that “country” experience… we lasted all of half an hour. And one afternoon as i drove i put the ipod on for maybe one hour.

So, in 8,000 km we just were in our own zones individually, and also collectivly.

• Joe: read 3 volumes of Twighlight series, slept, bonded and amused the dogs. Kept us amused and entertained with movie trivia and more
• Kim: worked, skyped with work/friends, drove, backseat drove, meditated and looked out the window.
• Deb: Drove, meditated, and navigated us through this journey of ours.

It was an amazing  journey of silence. Each in our own way we absorbed the landscape internal and external.