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It was 28 years ago today that Jean and I married. Being who we are, we had three ceremonies. We had a spiritual ceremony with just the two of us. We had a civil ceremony with a justice of the peace and we had a celebration with friends. That day formalized the pivotal and most important juncture of my life. I am so grateful and I miss her so.
This has been a fairly normal week. Tuesday I dropped by the union hall to teach others how to post to the Union website I had built and Tuesday evening was the Democratic Party Executive Committee meeting followed by a Public Relations committee meeting which I chair. We had a bit of an issue because someone had set up a forum which had erupted as forums frequently did. The problem was that this one had been set up under the party banner, so that had to be fixed and was.
Wednesday night I facilitated the Explorations class at the Unity church. We started this in April and it had been fun and interesting. It is a survey of spiritual and metaphysical topics as they apply to the lives we wish to live, with a new topic each month. March was energy work. April was health and healing. In May we are covering relationships and relating to others and we decided that June will be Astrology.
The relationship discussion has been interesting. Last week we covered freedom in relating and balancing freedom with the responsibilities and accomodations of relationship. We particularly focused on the importance of the difference in perspective between focusing of freedom to do or be something and the freedom from something or someone. The Unity church has been good for me at this juncture. I have been active in the church service and some social activities and have been singing. I had not sung publicly since high school and it has been enjoyable and rewarding. I wonder if I might enjoy voice lessons, just for the fun of it.
Anyway, that is being my week, along with watering the trees and flowers and mowing the yard. I have not yet decided how I am going to spend the extra day I get this weekend. My sights are set on a 5 day weekend I am taking June 6-10. Kirk and I are going on a camping and sightseeing journey through the hill country with our friend Lonie.
It just registered how seldom I had blogged since Jean's illness. I am adjusting to a life without her. I have been keeping busy. Work fills my weekdays and I have been active in the Unity Church. This wonderful group of people and their friendship have been an anchor in what would otherwise have been far too unsettled a sea. I have been singing (hadn't sung publicly since high school) and I am leading a Wednesday night workshop in spiritual and metaphysical exploration and development. Keeping busy has given me a space for recovering from the sorrow of Jean's loss and allowed the ragged edges of my wounded heart to begin to heal. The fellowship of good people has allowed me a pleasant and rewarding place to focus my thoughts and my energies and I am grateful.
Kirk and Chloe are doing well. We are off this morning to see Star Trek and tonight is their uncle Matt's birthday so we are then to Matt's this evening to celebrate.