I had this dream the night before I left San Diego for Austin that I'm still trying to figure out the meaning...It was simple enough...an amazing white hawk that was full winged spread flying facing me so that I can see its underside. I had never seen a white hawk before, but knew it was a hawk by its shape and its tail feathers were spread and I noticed a band of brown about an inch up from the tip all the way across the tail. It flew toward me, then turned and landed on a barren smooth barked multi-branched tree that shone like gold in the sunlight. The hawk and the tree were the only things in the dream ---and the sequence was only that ...the hawk landed in the tree and it was the most amazing site...and then I woke up (I think it was the earthquake that woke me)

...so tonight I'm in Austin and I still have quite a bit to write about outside of this, but wanted to get this down before it gets lost in the daily shuffle of things...I ended up seeing several Hawks on my trip to Austin....some flying, some perched on a post. I think it was either three or four total during the trip. Pretty cool as Hawks AND EAGLES have always been present in my world. Some of the Eagles I've experienced have been pretty amazing like the one on the beach in St Pete, or the one at my friends ranch in Bastrop - where they've not seen one before or since.  But regardless, tonight I was searching the meaning of white hawks in dreams and found out THEY EXIST!!! There is actually a hawk that is a white hawk...and it looks just like the one I dreamt about.

Pretty cool dream...even if I have no clue where it came from of what it could mean. It was beautiful and serene...

"Mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind."

~~ Albert Einstein

Einstein. One of my favorite bohemians...quirky, brilliant, funny, real. I like reading his letters to friends and family and his interaction with children as much as his theories of the universe, his philosophies, his thoughts on religion. He's a fellow, i would have liked to meet in my lifetime (or in his).

Energy. LIFE. LOVE and all aspects of e-MOTIONs...I read recently that there is a new experimental technology that will use human's footfalls to power "the grid" --it's to be used in high traffic areas like train/subway stations and other high volume places. What a cool concept!!! I wonder if you can also use this same technology in our roadways (or on our car tires) so that all of us who drive incessantly will actually "give back" ...wouldn't that be cool if our act of driving can power either our own vehicle (object in motion stays in motion), or somehow give energy back to the whole. Hmmmm...thoughts to ponder in the wee hours of the morning when the energy of life vibrates with the imagination of E.

Recycling Energy....

OK, neither of these are cicadas...one, a grasshopper with the upper hand/leg, and the other a walking stick, looking for a drink...or a meal :)

Such is nature. Such was my weekend at the ranch.  The weekend's lesson: Longhorn husbandry...the miracle of life, the drive of motherhood...the stronger drive of sex. Nature, along the river at Tarcoola Ranch among my dearest friends, the girls (photos to be added), and the only place left in Austin that remotely feels like Home (besides my very bohemian office where I'm currently living for a bit)... I'll have to finish this later...as there's a cicada singing at my door...and the evening is calling me...

Sometimes things simply fall into place and my life glides on just as it has meant to be...destiny's proving ground. I always know I'm on the right path when amazing things just "seem to click" ---and right now, there is no doubt:

I am where I should be - doing what is meant for me.

And life, she is good.

I'll be heading back out on that "smooth stretch of highway" in the next couple of weeks, back to San Diego for a few, then up to Seattle.

I'm listening to KPIG radio right now...and interestingly, the song that just came on? "I'm a wanderer" by Dion. Appropos? Too Funny!

Some amazing synchronicities this last week...things that if I knew how to calculate the odds, would surely prove some amazing coincidences. I love the way the Universe works it's magic...and watching it unfold day to day - moment to moment.

Makes LIFE interesting....and anticipation of what is just around the corner, the next song, the next chance meeting...

I heard the familiar sound of the songbirds outside my office today...and it reminded me of how peacefully close to nature this place is - or seems to be. Yesterday late afternoon, as I was working away with the bay door open, I saw him...the familar roadrunner that  plays, hunts, sleeps and frolicks around the building. Sometimes there are more, and most days I see them, they are in the front area, close to the front doorstep ---or even on my Jeep.

Too cool!

So it isn't any wonder that my musing tonight is of the feathered variety...birds have always been fascinating to me...and there are some like the eagle and the hawk, that hold a special place in my life. So...tonight I realized how similar life in general seems to be...to flying. How the act of flight itself is nothing more than a fluctuation of soaring on the wind, and falling - bullet-like, toward the inevitable...but both acts together ---propels us forward toward our destination, our longing, our journey. It's so easy to get caught up in the fear of the downward swoop - when our wings are folded close to us in fear, in protection...it seems natural to do this, but it's only if we let go - open our wings - spread wide and vulnerably embrace the wind, will we find that we can truly FLY....

...and Oh, the things we can see through the eyes of the bird in flight, dancing on the wind, feeling suspended between the world - and the sky. Imagine it...and feel the wind on your feathers.

Uh, and yeah, don't get me started on Eagle sex....I'm definitely coming back as an Eagle - just for the fun of it!

:)