Tender Loving Care

REMINDER from Mano:

Wherever you go, whatever you do, there are elementals familiar with you and your life that travel with you.

REMARKS from Barbara:

Every time I travel to Big Sur I feel the magic and attribute it to the tangible presence of Angel and Elemental presence always present where the ocean and mountain meet.

REMEMBERING Mary Jane:

Indian Summer has arrived with a combination of chilly wind and cloud and heat of the fading summer sun. Mary Jane came to visit one weekend of Indian Summer while we sat in the Amphitheater and drank tea.

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Tender Loving Care

Blog #138

It is over a month since my fall and hospitalization. Life is very different now. My dear daughter Donna Theresa has been busy connecting with friends and possible caregivers so someone will be with me 24 hours a day. Things have settled into a comfortable pattern with two amazingly wonderful women alternating care for the next two months. This is especially important to me since I have heard that 2025 is a year where the energies of Mother God will be more prominent than Father God and the feminine within each of us will shine and bless the world through each of us.

When my son John took a turn being with me one weekend, he took me for a drive along the ocean to stop at Swanton Berry Farm for Strawberry Shortcake and then farther up the coast to watch surfers on the ocean. John is a great surfer and has traveled the world to famous and remote surfing places. He even bought a 35-foot Clipper to get to surfing areas in remote islands. At one time when he called home to buy and send parts to fix the boat, he said his experience of having a sail boat had been, “repairing the boat in exotic places.”

On Sunday John took me on our annual outing down the coast to Big Sur for breakfast at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn. This little place is pure magic. We always sit by the fireplace. I always order a Mocha. I think back to the many times Jim and I stopped by Deetjen’s for the night or for a meal. Just driving through Big Sur with the high cliff’s straight vertical drop to the ocean, the redwood trees, and energy of the residential artist community, fills my heart and stimulates my Artist Soul. In my recovery I think this is the first time I have been to Big Sur that I did not visit Nepenthe and the Phoenix Gift Shop.  I was just too tired. I slept the two and a half hour trip home.

I had a friend tell me of a mythic happening among the Big Sur Artist Residents about the presence of “the Big Sur Gnome.” My friend saw him once while walking with a friend along the cliff above the ocean and there on the path was a plastic gnome around three feet tall. He just appears and disappears. Another time my friend went to a dinner party in a friend’s home.  When the party was over and people were leaving, the Big Sur Gnome was standing by the parked cars. Nobody knows or can figure out how this happened.