Big Change is Here!

Today is June 22, 2012 and in two months I'll be in the Dominican Republic! Yesterday was the Solstice and here we are, officially into the summer.  Farmers Markets have been overflowing with an abundance of California fruits, including apricots, peaches and yesterday, for the first day--figs.

I'm busy clearing out my psychotherapy office, where I've been practicing four years.  The chairs in the waiting room are gone, and Sunday my friend is coming with her family to take the hutch which has displayed my diplomas. She will use it in her dining room to show off her china.  The fellows from the Rainbow Thrift Store, a new enterprise in the neighborhood which supports a local GLBT Counseling Center, are coming to take the couches, desk, and bookcases on Monday.  My friend Sandy is coming from Sacramento for several days to help me take down the aquarium and give away my beautiful guppies, as well as Waldo the African frog.  We'll have plenty of other stuff to do too.

I'm thrilled that I bought our tickets for the Kate Wolf Festival in Mendocino County June 29-July1. We'll camp out for three days and enjoy music by KD Lang and the Siss Boom Bang, as well as Ferron,  among many illustrious and outstanding musicians including Broke down in Bakersfield.  I'm especially looking forward to Richard Thompson. Thank goddess I am doing something really terrific in honor of the big shift.  I'll be spending 3 days having a glorious time with my friend enjoying the most gorgeous rhythms and communing with sensitive souls in the woods.

Recently, I was standing in my waiting room of my office and a client that has been coming in for a year stated, "So you are really leaving." I nodded, looking dreamily at the brightly colored guppies in the aquarium, especially the males and their flashing tails.  The moment was so numinous. That night I dreamed of an old boyfriend who came to me with a startled look in his face, and he said to me, "I've lost my job." He was quite shook up, as if to say, "What will I do now?"  When I woke up from the dream I felt that he had mirrored for me my own shock at this time of great transition.  The dream helped me face my feelings about leaving my practice and moving on!