Quick update.
First: Go Kamala!
Six-and--half days, 25 hours of lectures, 35 hours of meditation. Walking meditations that start at 6 a.m. It's not surprising that our last meditation ended with ten minutes of laughter. Wow. Quite the relief! Things would calm down and then someone would snort or something and off we went again. Thank God.
It'sbeen a busy summer with me bouncing back and forth between Wisconsin and Salt Lake, where I am now getting all of my treatment.
Houston was incredible, but I just could not go there anymore. And, now that my diagnosis is a very treatable cancer, Salt Lake is perforect for me. It makes for much better coordination between the cancer doctors and my regular doctors. It just makes it easier to treat the whole patient,
I am having to go back for tests and some treatments, some of which are for side effects. So I have not been able to spend quite as much time at Spring Bank as I wanted. Since I was in high school, my goal was to be an author who spent summers at Spring Bank writing books. I have done a little writing at SB, but spent more time on redo work, changing the kitchen, enlisting friends to remove wallpaper and paint, etc.
But overall, I realize, I have exactly the life I always wanted--living in a mountain town, being a ski instructor (something I never imagined) and being able to buy Spring Bank, my favorite spot on earth, bar none, from my mother's estate.
There are few other things I want to do, and I'll get them done.
This summer has really been one of rest and healing.Hence this meditation retreat.
And of course two kitchen redos. I now, for first time in my life, have not one but TWO kitchens that I designed. It is amazing. And the Spring Bank kitchen went together SO easily! Synchronicity, y'know?
Here's a link to before and after photos!
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