Good Morning,

There are so many good excuses not to check in. One is I that sometimes I feel timid and don't want to be so open and since it's been such an emotional week I really do just want to curl up and hide. But I went to bed early, around 10:30 or so, and slept in, around 8:00am, did the morning stretches and feel daring so here I write.

Where to start, I don't know, this week had many challenges and I'm definitely a stronger, gentler and more loving person because of them all. Last weekend I heard that I wasn't to attend my spiritual retreat and that I needed to grow up. Neither bit of information was well received. I toyed with the idea that I wouldn't be going on the retreat but didn't believe it in my heart and the notion of growing up, well I'm doing just fine thank you very much.

I finally realized that I need to grow up in the area of money. I love that in the Disney movie "The Princess and the Frog" one of the messages is that to be successful one needs to combine wishing on a star with hard work. The wishing in the star is that connection with GreatSpirit it is our true longing that which brings us joy and the action is the footwork that is needed here on earth. So my footwork here was to say no to the expense of the spiritual retreat and say yes to living below my means. The means are rather small at this time so I'm afraid but I will rise to the learning because once I'm good at living within these means it will be a strong base for living below a higher means. I'm reading Mary Hunt and she explains things quite nicely as you know I also love Robert Scheinfeld's Busting Loose From The Money Game.
thank you