Succès

Success (Eng.)/Succès (Fr.) noun: The favorable or prosperous termination or attempts of endeavors.

I have been absent from the blog for a variety of reasons:

1. I have been trying to rent my house back in the states, and fielding inquiries keeps me plenty busy.

2. I am about to launch a large project for my client that I have been working on since May 2011.

3. I have been in house buying negotiations for an adorable (dare I say it, my "dream house") in Bourgogne.

4. I have been dealing with the French banks to open a mortgage in France. (The answer is "Yes", I may be completely insane).

5. I have been trying to find out where in the world my France Residency Permit renewal is within a governmental system that makes no sense.

And while all of these items in and of themselves had been riddled with road blocks, challenges, fearfulness, self doubts and second thoughts, I know that they really just represent a whole lot of messy squiggles on the road to success.

Thank God for a diagram that shows how this process actually works.

Je t'aime

I am all for a good ole self affirmation, especially when it comes to self love.

Yet, there is something quite magical to hearing these three precious words uttered from the mouth of babes.

Voyages

Voyages (Fr.)/ Traveling (Eng.): to go, move or journey from one place to another; as if on a trip.

I have been conspicuously absent from my blog for the past couple of months. So allow me to explain where I been...

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream...

"It was an amazing piece of music to write to, and an incredible challenge for me ... Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is… not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears."
-Robert Plant, interviewed by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone, March 13, 1975, when describing the process of writing the music/ lyrics to Kashmir

That quote seems to be the only way to sum up the past two months for me. It was spent traveling, taking care of personal business, working, spending time with people that I adore, visiting new faraway lands, staying on task, yet letting things unfold in the direction of my dreams.

It was equal parts terrifying and joyful; attaching and detaching; painstakingly hard work, yet effortlessly fabulous all at the same time.

As if that is even possible.

Portland

(note: this post was never published due to my unpredictable wifi connections over the past month. But now that I am in Paris and gearing up to fill you in on what is up with my current journey, I felt it fitting to begin the catch up with this post)

Yesterday, in Portland Oregon I experienced Reiki for the first time.

I have been dealing with a lot of uncertainty due to my transition between Portland and Paris. When I moved to Paris last year, I had renters lined up for my house. This time, after tending to my stateside business, I am returning to Paris without having new renters in place.  My property manager says it is a difficult time of the year to rent, but he assures me that it will eventually work out. I am continuing with my plan to go back to Paris in spite of this missing piece of the puzzle. I am holding onto faith that it will all work out for my highest good and the highest good of others.

I can't help but contemplate if I am being foolish or if this is an example of taking a leap of faith and trusting that the universe is going to work it all out. At what point to we accept our challenges as signs from the universe that we should or should not so something? Is the lack of renters a sign that I should not return to Paris, but rather stay put and play it safe?

I am not sure what I should be doing in order to properly address my uncertainty and bizarre space that I am in. But since a dear friend of mine has expanded her massage practice to include Reiki, I made sure to have an appointment on the books.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."


After a very deep relaxing treatment I have affirmed by decision to continue onward on the path of faith.