Actually, yes I do.
"Tell us your top five highlights from the past, oh, four weeks or so," you say? Why, certainly! (Very kind of you to add, "because we know you don't have time to give a full report before your salsa dancing DATE tonight!" You are so considerate, dear reader.)
(1) I fully rocked the project I've been working on for the past year and a half -- more accurately, it fully rocked me. More details? See here.
(2) Rosh Hashanah dawn ceremony on top of a hill in Petroglyph National Monument outside of Albuquerque. Prayer in community on the land! I love it.
(3) I officiated my dear friend and colleague's wedding in Albuquerque; it was a blend of Buddhist, Hindu, and Apache prayers, and the bride and groom held candles to illuminate their faces in the late dusk. Part of their ceremony was sending the rings around to have them be "warmed" by each guest, so now their rings contain the blessings of everyone in their community. Beautiful!
(4) The absolute attention-getting hijinks of reiki; reiki basically tap danced for me in a top hat like that alien in Spaceballs. No less than FOUR significant events having to do with reiki took place in the course of about four days. Okay, universe! I get it. Heat. In the hands. Use it. Yes.
(5) At the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, the largest hot air balloon event in the world, watching the 6:30 a.m. dawn patrol -- in advance of the 700-balloon mass ascension that took place once the sun was fully out, twelve hot air balloons lifted off in the still-dark early morning, and once up, worked their engines so that the fire that's used to keep the hot air hot, lit up the inside of the balloon. Twelve twinkling balloons in the dark sky? A grand display of what humans can do when we're focused on making beauty and peace? Yeah, I was crying.
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