Already here

I am here. Berkeley, California. Next week I move into my new home with my sister. My birthday is coming in a few weeks and I already feel the new decade upon me- in fact I declared emphatically to my housemate "The new me is here!"

I was dressed in all green and had tied a makeshift green turban to my head- this for sure added tot he dramatic and humorous emphasis of the statement. The thought process was most amusing and I can still trace it on two levels.

The most time-place material related was the supplements I held in my hand and the private ritual satisfaction I have developed over years of traveling that celebrates anytime I finish a jar as it is a chance to lighten my load. What I realized in contemplating these supplements and this process was that, along with having a home these days of supplement weary travel are over. My supplements can live in my house as long as I want/need them too.

On some other level I had also been feeling the changes of the spring equinox. The balanced energies of the masculine and feminine, the equanimity of even sunlight and darkness over the whole Earth heralded in my birthday and the new way I have been feeling. So I know I don't turn Thirty for a few more weeks but ...