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Daniel

I shared my story of Daniel with my friend and she wrote a poem for me, I thought I would share this with you, I hope you enjoy the words as much as I did.

Have a great day.
Love and light to you all.
Kim.

 

Daniel

Your morning walk to the boulangerie’s
A ritual, a daily start of things,
‘Til something, somewhere shifts and in comes Daniel…

The shop was closed, and you, too rushed to wait
For opening time, turned tail and headed back
Across the road, and up the waking high street.

He saw you cross the road, your head so sore
You held it in your hand. He exhaled smoke,
Stepped over, asked you, “What’s your diagnosis?”

You told him that your father died, “My sadness
Shifts and stiffens, shifts and stiffens, stays.”
“I can sort that out,” he says, his hand

Upon your neck, “Tomorrow I will start”
He flicks his long grey ponytail and smiles,
Carries his tattoos across the road.

The next day he arrives, stubs out his weed
Applies his yellowed fingers to your neck.
You feel the gently warming sun, or something.

He shakes his head, when asked “Is it just magic?”
He doesn’t ask for money, though he takes it
And tells you he’ll be back, that it will work.

You hope, or feel or know that something’s loosening
And leaving; that change was wrought the day
You went for bread, and came back with a healer.

A chance meeting

What a tale I have to tell you today, I mentioned a few days ago that I was suffering with my neck and have been for some time. I was on my way to the bakers on Monday morning and holding my neck to cross the road, as I can’t turn properly and this man stopped me and asked what was the problem, I explained the best I could and he said, “Let me help”. He placed his hand over the back of my neck for 10 minutes and then asked where I lived and said he would come and see me again. Well, I smiled and told him where I lived, he said his name was Daniel; he has long grey hair in a ponytail, smokes all the time and has the kindness eyes. Daniel has now been three times and although the pain in my neck has not gone, it is certainly feeling easier. I asked if it would go and he said yes, but it would take a little time.

So, Friday I am having another session, I will keep you posted.

The funny thing is that morning I wasn’t going to go out until later as I thought the baker’s would be closed but something said go now, and I did – wow – coincidence… I think not!

Have a great day.
Love and light to you all.
Kim.

After the fete

Hello I am back and still in one piece. Boy I am tired, I need some serious space and meditation time, we all go back to normal now, so time for me to re-group go back to normal life. I have to share with you that I am suffering with a really stiff sore neck and can’t move my head properly, not sure what this is all about.

Boswell and Bailey are sleeping quietly by my side in the garden happy to have their space back. I am going to do some healing codes and tapping now, see if we can shift this.

Bye for now.
Love and light to you all.
Kim.

Summer Fete

I hope you are all feeling well and in a good place.

I am now preparing for our village Fete, oh boy, what a time this is, four nights of craziness. We live in a very small (well, about 2,400 people) village in the South West of France and every year at this time it all goes crazy. There are four bars here and all of them have a band or a disco, in the old market place there is a huge fairground with rides and games. All of this starts up at 8pm and goes on until 5am every morning; the noise is out of this world. During this time, I have guests, thank goodness they are hard-core party people as sleep is not an option.

The pugs are so not going to enjoy this, they like a quite peaceful life !

Wish me luck,
Love and light to you all.
Kim.

The Dalai Lama

Wow what a day in Toulouse; let me share the day with you. First I must share with you, during my very low time with anxiety and fear of travel and actually fear of everything else, I never dreamt that the day would come, when I would be invited to go somewhere and not even think about it, just go, and it is here, so thanks to changing my life, finding meditation and my tapping I am free. What a wonderful feeling this is, there is hope out there and for all who think life will never change, it can and it will, with a lot of hard work and belief.

So, back to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. We left as a group for Toulouse at 9am; the excitement in the car was wonderful, everybody relaxed and looking forward to the day. We arrived 2 hours later at the Zenith Centre, wow what an enormous building, there were people milling around everywhere.

Once we went through security we went inside and took our seats, everyone had to be seated before His Holiness came on stage, so we sat waiting for an hour, the buzz in the room was amazing. We were all chatting and laughing and then the Buddhist Monks stood who were on the stage and the whole auditorium went silent and everybody stood up, what an amazing feeling this was, I was so moved, that 10,000 people could stand in silence for 10 minutes, the energy in the room was electric.

His Holiness arrived on stage and the place erupted with applause. He then welcomed everyone (in English), which was such a surprise, we had been told he was speaking in Tibetan and the translation would be in French, how lucky were we.

His talk was on the Art of Happiness it was wonderful and a reminder of what we all know but sometimes forget.

“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.” ~ Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness

“One fights anger and hatred by cultivating their antidotes: patience and tolerance”

“If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. … It is more sensible to spend the energy focusing on the solution rather than worrying about the problem. Alternatively, if there is no way out, no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you can’t do anything about it anyway.”

It soon ended and it was time to leave. We wandered around some of the stands that were there chatting to people and then we made our way home. It is a day I will never forget.

Take care of yourselves.
Love and light to you all.
Kim.

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