How did I come to be here?
I was standing alone... in my thoughts of what was, once, my, our plans of retirement. To travel abroad, up to 6 months, house exchange, interchanged with a few cruises and land adventures.
How was I ever to do this...with happiness and fulfillment? How was I ever to experience this...
The music from the grand piano was sensuously divine. It took me into a deep, deep place of longing. I was aboard 'The Serenity', one of the Crystal Cruise ships. Jennifer and I had just had lunch with Keiko on board while it was docked in Vancouver, BC by Canada Place. Keiko, now as a very dear friend and my Japanese daughter after homestaying with us as a family for about three years, has been working on the Crystal Cruises for a number of years since being at our Coquitlam home...first in the hair salon and then as the head social hostess for the Japanese passengers. It had been six years since Keiko and I had been together. It was as if it were but last month.
And...so it began...yet another window of thought, a portal. I decided in the Atrium of 'The Serenity' , waiting for Keiko to leave the ship with us, listening to the piano, immersed in the ambience that only cruises can give, that I yet wanted to experience a cruise and so began my intense process of making that decision become a reality.
And here we are David (Dov) and I making it be that reality ...in England, set to sail a Holland American ship 'The Princedam' from London on a 28 day Mediterranean cruise as of Sept. 6th.
May/June, 2009
Copyrighted MB 2009
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