ah yes bean. the sleepwalking clueless. some people make things happen. some people watch things happen. some people wonder what happened.

Yep.

fun chat we're having bean.

your picture is you in an air plane. So are you a pilot?

In your life, what is important to you? My children. I want them to grow up happy, secure and enthusiastic about life.

What do you want out of life? A lot of laughing. And, more time to learn all the things I would like to learn. Which I will have when as my children get older.

What would really make you happy? Perfect health.

retired. after the military i flew executive jets for three decades. had a fabulous career. visited fifty two countries on six continents and all fifty states. like to say i've lived more than my fair share.

In all your years of flying, have you ever seen any UFO's. I don't mean flying saucers specifically, but anything unidentified or strange in the sky.

coffee

as long as I have coffee everyone is safe

actually bean, i've seen some things that i can identify which might have been the object of ufo sightings or other supernatural phenmena sightings. the northern lights for instance do some real strange things when viewed from forty five thousand feet. during heavy moisture at night st. elmo's fire can erupt on our windshield. it looks like miniature lightning and also acts and looks different depending on aircraft spead, altitude and weather conditions. i've seen out of the corner of my eye a streak in the sky moving at increadible speed but have no reason to conclude that it was anything other than a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere. the more i saw the more skeptical i became of ufo sitings. the u in ufo, unidentified, means just that. the flying object was unidentified. meaning no reason to identify it as an alien space craft.

My sister lives in Alaska and I want to go visit her in the winter so I can see the northern lights. I bet it's just amazing.

Food

Jess642,

If your desire is to experience everything, how can you expect to live a 'calm' life? Can you experience every trial and tribulation and also be calm?


Yes, JB, I can. Life happens...and when adversity appears...I do stay calm and centred... and get on with it. Having children, some now adult, having committments within the community...always something appears to challenge...it's getting through it, without losing one's centre.

What do you do daily to authentically be who you are?

From the moment I open my eyes....I am authentically me. From preparing breakfast, making beds, cleaning house, feeding animals, weeding gardens...reading articles relevant to whatever community project I am involved in.... I am consistantly authentically me.

And who is this me? A woman who feels the desire to nurture with kindness, to be involved in doing gentle and kind things for the village I reside in, for the land that feeds us, to the waterways that nourish all of us.

I walk the sunrise...and energise.... I work with gardens in the predawn light... I come home and prepare my children for their day.... I have a constant stream of people seeking some form of solace enter my house...I work in the community gardens, I work in the food co op... I assist with the beginnings of a community radio station...doing grant applications...work with young people, assisting them with being heard within state and federal government, through Ministerial Forums..

I surf... to become one with the ocean...to wash off the negativity... to cleanse and re energise again.... to centre.





How do you stuff experience into your day and also experience calm and solace in a place that is a safe refuge and haven?


Every aspect of my day to day life is experience.... even reading these forums, gives insight into other cultures, other beliefs, and the otherness of people...This home of mine , this village, this community, is a quiet sleepy hollow...very little crime...we never lock our doors, nor remove the keys from the ignition of my van...my home is open to all... and we accommodate many middle of the night forlorn folk...young people who have got themselves in a bit of a pickle... the elderly, the homeless...domestic violence victims...we have no refuge as such , no shelters for a 100 mile radius...and have become one, through historically always being one....

I feed them, give them board... and a quiet safe place to rest and recuperate...access to counsellors, police, whatever they require, all through the safety of a home.


Calm is not exclusive to silence.... calmness and solace are an internal sensation...that moment of 'aaaah'... I have safe refuge here.... in this house, this home, this village, this community....and even when things get tumultuous.... I rarely lose my centre of calmness.

Yes I can get cranky, indignant, ruffled.... but underlying all that is the knowledge that my family and I are safe, secure and sheltered.
That is the calmness.




How can you be both "safe" and experience life and its trials and tribulations?



Easily..... what happens TO me.... is life.... in all it's shades and textures...

my beliefs and drives to remain authentically me do not disappear, irrespective of what happens around me, to me, at me.

I allow or disallow what may come,... to affect me...I decide what will AFFECT me, and how....

I am no victim... of circumstance, nor others...

I decide what may or may not cause consternation...and in that is 'safety'.

Thanks Jesse! I think I will move to your town.