Loren’s Top Twenty-Five Moments, December, 2017
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Having no return date for when we come home changes everything
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Hearing Claire say, “I’m loving our travels, let’s keep going!”
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Surprising Claire on our 23rd Wedding Anniversary with Copper Rings, handmade from 3/4” pipe
- Leaving home and starting off on the road in our van… “Eyes wide open, ready for anything!”
- Improving my skills in Italian: I realize I am now much more than a beginner
- Making this bit of wisdom shared by a new friend in Bath, England one of our mottos: “Whatever the weather, we’ll weather the weather, whether we like it or not!”
- Shaking hands with President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady, Rosalyn Carter
- Appreciating how my focus on bringing Joy and Laughter to others gives me energy, while, for example, debating solutions to political problems does not
- Experiencing that our consciousness continues on the other side
- Singing a line of the 1968 hit, Do You Know the Way to San Jose? with a clerk at a market checkout counter in Auburn, Nebraska, then later with many others
- Meeting Mountain Gorillas up close and seeing the Wildebeest migration in Africa
- Watching the enchanting play of Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in Iceland
- Seeing surreal Antarctic seas and glaciers, observing penguins in their natural habitat and recognizing the fragility of our ecosystems
- Feeling new appreciation for artists – how they think, feel and see the world
- Learning how much folks enjoy receiving a postcard in today’s online world!
- Conversing over a pasta dinner with a tattoo-piercings artist, and coming to respect him and his lifestyle
- Finding deeper connections with my Italian side relatives and roots
- Having renewed gratitude for the value of the UU course called ‘Building Your Own Theology’
- Using online and offline technological tools has been a tremendous game changer for us – compared to our earlier travels
- Returning to Greece for our 25th Honeymoon Anniversary
- Acknowledging how small the world has become, and how we and everything on planet Earth are interconnected
- Realizing that I have become just a wee bit more whole from our journey
- Knowing that the ruin caused by bad and corrupt governance, like in Zimbabwe, can happen anywhere in the world
- Learning how high the Himalaya Mountains really are – the California Sierras are only simply hills in comparison
- Journeying on the road, people ask us, “Where is your favorite place, what’s the best part of the trip?” After deep reflection I now reply, “Inside myself!”
Journey Toward Wholeness 