I just came back from a short evening walk.  It's so beautiful out tonight--shadows painted with low-hanging leaves catching the last rays.  Curiously quiet, with occasional far-away cheers and clapping from a softball game in the park.  All the gardens are spilling flowers after the rain, Santa Barbara daisies are my favorite--little pink and white flowers always exuberant and joyfully plain.  Satin, riotous California Golden poppies are everywhere--in traffic cirlces,  front yards, vacant lots--the only beautiful thing-- and in the cracks of median strips-- bursting out like silky little banners announcing that summer is on the way.

I'm glad to be home.

Seattle was great--very fun classes with great people.  Great visit with Gary McAvoy and dinner with his friends John and Sadie,  talking until too late at night.

Anders earned his yellow belt and came over to tell me Sunday morning.  Augie said his first sentence, Mo  oh  pease.   More orange please.

Two one-minute calls with Sigrid--we both are too busy to talk!  Mother and daugther!  We have to be telepathic now.  

Longer talk with  Fumiko in Japan, hearing the latest plans for later in the year.  Very exciting. Things unfold at their own rate. 

Here's a new acronym    TBTB.  Too busy to blog.

It's 9 pm and I am finishing up packing to go to Seattle tomorrow.  Since the last time I blogged I have been barely keeping up with the incoming activity.

It's all good.  Karla Nagel is here again from Mexico, and Fumiko and I had dinner with her.  We have an exciting new idea.  Will tell more next week.

So many synchronicities have been popping up, I haven't had time to write everything down.  I really feel that I am living by the intuitive navigating system.  I had lunch with author and entrepreneur, Jim Horan (he wrote The One-Page Business Plan.)  I wasn't sure why I was having lunch, but my intuition said to go for it.  I was busy and could have used the time in another way.  But our conversation yielded several great ideas, that I have already implemented. I've given his name to Ellen F--maybe she can invite him to speak at her trade show in Las Vegas.  He got me to thinking about how to reach more people with numerology--how others could make money with numerology.  I was thinking, Oh, I should call Felix in Amsterdam and give him a tip on the new seminar flyer, but I thought he had it already done.

When I got home I had a call from Ingebord in Amsterdam with some seminar problems.  We made a list, and I was able to give her my new ideas.  She had been feeling bad that the flyer was behind schedule, but I said, No, Ingeborg, this is PERFECT!  She wanted to work more synchronistically, and that's exactly what happened.  She was following her intution to call me with questions, and I already had the solutions.  It was magical.

 Then I got a message that Abhi Naha in London wants to organize an informal dinner the night before the Utrecht seminar.  How fun!  We'll meet some new people.  Anyone can sign up for it.  I should do this more often with foreign seminars.  We all need to meet each other.

 Meanwhile, I drove Fumiko to SFO last night to fly back to Tokyo.  I found an old project that may be interesting, so I gave it to her to present to the editor.  Who knows?

The energy is flowing so strongly, I almost can't take any more in.  

I finished the best memoir by Eudora Welty--One Writer's Beginnings.  Rainey lent it to me, and I devoured it.  I realize how little time we all spend reading really good literature, and how much we read stuff like this--which is okay, but not professional quality writing that is so juicy you want to put it in your mouth and eat it.

Speaking of which, I finished off two pork chops in the refrigerator, and made the best mustard, sherry, cream sauce!  Also sauteed the eggplant to go with it.  Delicious and so simple.  Must remember.  Gotta pack.

It's Saturday.  Cloudy, quiet, sleepy.  Last night I gave a short talk at the East Bay Church of Religious Science on the Control Dramas from The Celestine Prophecy.  They were showing the movie for the second time.  There must have been over a hundred people.  It was nice to see Rev. Andriette Earl again after a couple of years.  We taught a class together before on life purpose.  She has a huge energy field and emanates warmth, humor, and rock-bottom commitment to the path.

My new business cards arrived, and I realized they have the exact same color combination as the Kilim rug in my kitchen--in all my rooms, actually.  Red, black, orange, and a touch of white.  I love them!

 Friends are coming over for dinner.  I think I'll make a chicken and sausage gumbo and Fumiko is going to make a lemon cake with coconut on the outside--maybe raspberries on top.

Robert and I were going to go bowling but we changed our plans.  He's working in the kitchen right now to change my laptop so that it can download Skype--then I could talk to Japan through the computer for free!  Fumiko leaves next Tuesday for Japan.  I've got my ticket for leaving on May 22--Sigrid's birthday.  But I'll see her and Trevor, Chloe and Jim next week.  We'll celebrate then! 

The rain is STILL pounding down outside my window!

I still love the rain, though, when I'm inside and can hear its steady patter.

I had a very nice reminder of the importance of letting go this week.  Fumiko and I had been trying to set up a schedule for a seminar in Japan and nothing was working.  We felt stopped and unclear about what to do next.  After a few days, we decided to just let go of our original idea.  The moment we "surrendered," we felt relief.

Within two days of our decision, Fumiko received  an invitation to participate in a conference in Nagano in May.  This time everything just flowed.  With perfect timing, our schedules  were open for this unexpected opportunity.

Without any effort on our part, we now have an event scheduled and several other opportunities to do business and see friends.

It seems that sometimes you have to stop doing what is not working and let something else come into your life.  Once you stop or let go, you create a void.  Into that void new energy will flow. 

 It's dinner time now--salmon, salad, potatoes.  Later babysitting.  More rain.