I’m elated to be able to show you the first ray of light emanating from the sun over the Blue Mountains, and multiple rays in the picture below.
Happiest day, beloved Joy Train Rider! Bless you! I hope you had a delightful time between our last ride and this moment. It is common for us to overlook the small moments in life as we wait for those big significant milestones, but living in joyful awareness and gratitude each moment I find is a more rewarding way to go.
For example, our daughter mentioned some time ago, “My husband always finds a way to help me with whatever I’m doing. He makes everything easy for me.”
We had the opportunity to experience how they’re both like that and how good it makes you feel when someone genuinely cares for you. Throughout their visit this week, Frank and I found that whatever we needed to do was done for us as if by magic. Everything was so peaceful and tranquil. We made their visit (his first to Kingston) a “One Love” Bob Marley Tour. touring his former residence and studious that are now the site of The Bob Marley Museum; checking out his mural in the Water Lane music arts district downtown; relaxing on Bob Marley Beach in his old neighborhood and topping it off watching the “One Love” movie at the historic Carib Theatre where I went as a young woman in the 1970s.
The marvel of Bob’s vision, strength, love and tenacity was only outdone by the shock of realizing how small he was in stature – barely five foot, six inches and slender. It reemphasized that ANYONE can have an outsize impact on the world in life and in death. The only question is how much fuel we carry internally and how willing we are to expend it in the service of humanity and the world.
In this ecstatic state I get to hint at news that blew my mind this week. I can only hint because the privilege of announcing it belongs to the intrepid organizers. I can say it involves an expedition focusing on the explorer York in the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The central role the enslaved African played in the Corps of Discovery should be trumpeted from the rooftops, but pathetically few Americans know his part in the story and that of the other non-white person on the expedition, Sacagawea. That’s sadly typical of how Americans come to a misunderstanding of our history.
Serendipitously, the expedition will take place in the same timeframe as the Transformational Tours of National Parks for Black leaders, I shared on Monday’s Joy Train, and is the brainchild of some of the same leaders. Apparently, history will not stay buried!
I love adventure movies and I’ve always thought that the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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