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It worked out so well. We had the truck from 8:30 am to 9 pm. The weather held off very well. Only raining quite heavily after we finished our last load.
The care from others…
As Judy and I have been in transition from one city to another and hence from one home to another this past month the spontaneous help which we have received from friends and strangers alike has been manifold. Among all these daily experiences from our hoteliers who have made a place in their electric room for our bicycles, our primary mode of transport in the city, to our painter who changed her total schedule cajoling some of her other clients to alter their plans so that she could paint our new home during the week between possession and move-in one single simple event dominates my thought as I think back.. We had our car in the underground parking area of our new place when our remote seemed to malfunction. I alighted from the car and uselessly pointed the remote at what I guessed was the security gate sensor. A man came up behind me and said: “The battery is probably dead. Whereupon he produced a remote and opened the gate. It is the iconic human response to another. Regardless of what is sometimes suggested about our apathy we are at root a compassionate and empathetic species. The evidence is everywhere from the everyday to the extraordinary.
People that help me each day…
Everyday I meet people who make my life better, who help my life. Sometimes it’s the people who encourage me to see the gifts I have to share with the world (and they remind me that we all have gifts).
Sometimes it’s the person at the grocery store who helps me and gives me a smile. I’m very fortunate to have filled my world with people who are supportive. The impact they have is to make me very, very grateful. I started a gratitude journal a few months ago and I never have any problems finding things to write.
Ideas and lessons learned while travelling
Whenever I travel I am reminded that the news is wrong. Security in every airport I have been in is amazing, the people that I encounter are always helpful and my flights are almost always on time. I travel with my two children from Northern Michigan to Victoria BC. We have flown from Traverse City, MI to Chicago, IL then Vancouver, BC or Seattle, WA so many times that my nine year old daughter can tell you that it takes three planes, or two planes and a clipper or two planes and a bus and a ferry. I travel without a book. I have a backpack filled to the rim with things to do with the kids, snacks and I am willing to buy potato chips for $50 a bag if that keeps my children happy.
My valuable idea is that while you are traveling with children make it about them. Play games, read books, watch movies with them. It is not a time to teach life lessons it is time to keep them engaged in the trip, as low key as possible because change can be scary.