Nearly a week ago we launched this website. As has always been the case with showing "The Little Guys," every imaginable (and even more unimaginable) obstacles occured to delay the launch. To say I was intrenched in the task of preparing rather than prepared for what would come is an understatement. (Silly me, just thinking I was liquidating the collection of art!) Within minutes of announcing the site my (e)mailbox began to fill with heartfelt notes. Some expressed their feelings of sadness that "The Little Guys" would no longer be available after the Sale. Some extended congratulations. Most asked the now ever present question of, "Where are you going!" Each and every one was full of Grace. The memories of my travels and the wonder of how it felt to receive such caring affirmation for my journey came flooding back. Once again I am humbled by the gift I have been given in this lifetime - to be the instrument of this healing art. All and all, this past week has felt as if the Universe were saying, "If you think THAT journey was amazing, wait until you REALLY get on the Path!"

So, am I preparing for my next journey? Nope! I am now three days away from my own Estate Sale! The goal is to liquidate all my worldly belongings so that I might travel free from here on. Sorting, researching values, advertising, setting up, these are the tasks of my days just now. Again the obstacles have come not the least of which was my daughter, Alyssa, becoming very ill and not knowing for the past week if I might need to cancel the sale in order to travel to her in Seattle! She was to come home for the Estate Sale and gather the things she wanted for her new home. Thank goodness she is getting better now (keeping my fingers crossed!) but I have missed not sharing this "ending" in Chicago with her. Just as with the website sale, the estate sale is bringing me full circle. Whether engaged in clearing bookshelves or finding a forgotten cassette tape of Alyssa (now 26) at age four or five singing (or is that re-composing?) Jingle Bells, I am often finding myself in grateful tears. And oh yes, that "Where are you going?" is now being accompanied by offers of "You are welcome to stay anytime at my place!"

In nearly every moment of these past weeks I am seeing just how full and blessed my life has been. Without doubt, I have known times of deep struggles and experienced many losses. But with each email, each phone call, each sorting, I realize just how fortunate I am to have chosen to heal so that I can truly feel Love and experience being Loved.

One last note....speaking of Love and Gratitude! To Josh at 3:1 Studios (my Web Master!), Natalie (my young and gifted right arm), Ruth (my caring and experienced contemporary), and Shawn (my friend and ever present help), I want to say I am deeply grateful. I couldn't move into and through this transition and continue to BE in the moment without you!! You are each the BEST!

OK...BACK TO SORTING!!!! More after the Estate Sale........