On Friday Stephane and I went to get an energetic clearing done. It felt sooo good, it's like a huge chakras cleanse on steroids. We had been working super hard and needed a break. "The Teacher" offered to lend us her cottage up north in the Laurentiens, and we jumped right in. It was incredible.
There was no electricity, no cell phone connection; the nearest telephone was in town about 30minutes walk away, a beautiful lake, a nice big stream and nature all around. We saw hawks, ducks, chipmunks, raccoons and we took care of two cats while we were there, an Egyptian Mau (named Diva) and a huge big fat black cat that was 20 years old (named Zeus), who played like a kitten even though he's like 100 years old in cat years. Diva loved me and the Zeus loved Stephane.
"The Teacher" explained that Egyptian Mau's are able to see the spirit world, and used to be used by the ancient Egyptians to see if people were evil,and to help them know if evil spirits were lurking around them.
We had fires every night. One night it got so cold, I was shivering so much that Stephane woke up at like 6am and started a fire for me, it took him almost three hours to get the room hot enough so that I would stop shivering. It was a beautiful thing really :o) He was such a caveman, oooo you had to see it, heehee...
It was just gorgeous; we meditated by the stream, and we went into the forest everyday, collected trees that had fallen in the winter to use for firewood. Stephane had a chainsaw to cut the fallen trees into pieces. Oh my goodness, that thing scared the *insert bad word here* out of me.
Anyway, we now really want to get a place up there. I had totally forgotten what nature is like. I grew up in the country and hadn't gone back for three years, when I was little I would run around our property naked playing with the fairies. When I was up north with Stephane, I totally ran around naked and played with the fairies. I missed it so much! I mean, everyone has to run around naked outside at least once in his or her lifetime, I recommend it. I mean, don't do it in the city because you'd probably be arrested (please check your state laws). There is such a freedom that comes with it. I mean, apart from the mosquito bites on the butt, but still!
Another thing about being up there is the QUIET. There is no traffic, no noise, just birds and some howls of wolves. It is also dark. The darkness envelops you like a huge blanket, it doesn't suffocate you, and it lets you breathe and lets you know it's there. I've never really been afraid of the dark, I find it comforting. There is certain stillness that makes you breathe deeper, and relax into yourself, it gives you the gift of awareness of you body. It makes you feel as though you're alone in the world, a quiet peaceful still world of comforting darkness.
I miss it already, last night I was talking to Stephane about how cool it would be if all the electricity shut off for a little bit; so the world could take a break from it. A little while later we had a power outage in our neighborhood for no apparent reason. It was pretty sweet.
Our cat Berties missed us so much, he was so happy to see us when we got back. He's siamese, so he talks a lot! I wish I could understand cat's meows; it would have been great to understand what he was saying. I mean I know basically what he said "Ghita! Stephane! Where have you guys been? Where?! I missed you so much, I didn't have any wet foodies, and all you gave me was this dry stuff! Rub me! Pet me! Brush me! I missed you sooo much! I saw this huge bird the other day, then I played with the other cats then I chased after a bee!"
He's great. We've been letting him go outside recently, Stephane made this contraption so that he can get into and out of the house by himself. It's awesome. Mind you, I was terrified. I mean, he's my little baby, he comes when I call him, if I ask him if he wants foodies he starts meowing, I tell him I made him his bed and he comes to lie down with me, he is like a dog in a cats body. So letting him outside!? Whew, anyways, it's a real 'let go' lesson I needed to learn. There is that line, "If you truly love them set them free, if they return they're yours". Well I don't know if this applies to all humans, but Berties he knows we feed him the good stuff (specially formulated foodies for siamese), so he comes back, plus he's emotionally insecure and needs his reassurance that all is okay in the world :o) (especially when he comes back from being outside where there is so much action, he needs to know he can come back to a safe place where it's calm and loving).
I like that :o)
Thank you Stephane for taking such good care of me and for loving me so well and so freely.
Yours,
Ghita
