Tomorrow morning I say goodbye to my husband and get on at Northwest Flight to Minneapolis. Imagine. I've never been to Minneapolis. I keep getting it mixed up with Milwaukee. I'm not sure if 40 minutes in the airport counts as a visit to a city - that's all I have.
I'm armed with a map of the place so hopefully I will make the connection to the second flight, KLM to Amsterdam. Finally, after a 4 hour layover I will be on a plane again to Johannesburg arriving there at 9:00 P.M. on Thursday - Joburg time, and noon Thursday, California time.
Its a long trip. As far away as one can get from Sacramento without treading water. I only go because that is where my grandchildren are growing up. As far as they are concerned, it is perfectly normal to grow up in South Africa. In fact, neither of them knows any differently.
Had someone told me years ago that I would have grandchildren in South Africa, I would never have believed it. Funny how life works out differently than you plan.
I've been on many travels in my life - this is the most challenging, and the most important. I am embarking a journey to move from habitual patterns that have resulted in compromised health and self denigration to thinking that is more inline with reality and compassion.
A human being is part of the whole world, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings a something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
Albert Einstein
February, 1950
Albert Einstein
February, 1950
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- Margaret Loehr
- I am a former High School Science Teacher, married for a long time with a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.
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