I’m impressively early today. Now, why this would be considered impressive is to question my own value system, since I’m well into retirement at seventy and seven (77) and you could just as well say that I’m foolishly early.

However, neither are applicable, I just felt energetic this morning and so, got up early. But, that is not all there is to this. I felt energetic on account of my talk yesterday for the Calgary Life Enrichment Centre - CLEC for short. My talk went well for myself, which was not a sure thing I felt, when I started. I had a trying time bringing the relevant aspect into the focus of a narrative thread that would relate the my friends, the audience.

Judging from their reaction, my talk was well received, as this is called. Leila assured me she was going to apply the concept of ‘other believer’ for the ‘unbeliever’! Also the lively and long discussion was evidence that the content and message on diversity had stirred the strings of relevance and emotions.

Jack and Vangie kindly invited me for a lunch at the ‘Pannenkoeken’ Restaurant afterwards, which I gladly accepted. Our discussion there was lively as usual with Jack alone, but now enhanced with Vangie being present as well

Later at home I heard in the news that a temporary deal had been struck with Iran. This resonated with me, because in my talk I had mentioned that we should be making affirmations for world peace. This is something that we should do as ‘believers’ in the power of the New Thought method, which is based on P.P. Quimby’s (1802-1866) teachings and research.

In the evening I coloured in that last perimeter section of my mandala73, the one that forms the transition from summer to fall. Now only the four flower rosettes are left to do, with a few left details at the eight ’tongues’. This brings my goal of completion by this year’s end - forty years after my start - within sight.

The reason I felt so energetic this morning I ascribe to my intuitive sense that something important has been accomplished with the completion of yesterday’s talk. It was the last one in a series of four and it leaves me with the notion that some certain goal has been accomplished in the overall realm that constitutes my life and its purpose.

I know this sounds a bit pretentious, but I have been working on a formulation of my life’s overall purpose ever since I took retirement in 1999. Looking back over those quite tumultuous years I discern a process for which my foregoing youth and working life experience this time around, was a preamble.

That mentioned sense of accomplishment also finds resonance with my very first childhood memory of going down into this deep and dark place, further down than I had expected and against which I protested in a sense. But, the process of this descent had its own dynamics and my reactions had no affect on that. What remains from this very early recalled experience is a sense of urgency in my life in all I do, and this may relate to my present feeling of having accomplished some important goal.

All this remains quite vague and mysterious at this time. However, from experience I know that I can hold such notions in my awareness for some time and find them either becoming firm or diminished in that holding process. So, I wait and continue with my activities.
Time to close and go to DJ’s and Chapters at Chinook.
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