I re-discovered my ‘carpenter/artisan’s heart’ again very poignantly about 3 weeks ago when it became unavoidably obvious that this winter’s weather has wreaked havoc both with the wooden deck & exterior of this largely wooden-construction home. Neither has more than 1 coat of stain or paint & little-to-no weather-proofing. I am told that the past few winters were very mild compared to this one, so it hasn’t been an issue or necessity until now.

This year, despite all of the efforts to protect the deck & as much of the other wood exposed to the effects of ❄ , ice & sleet, there has been a lot of weathering & damage. In early days of shovelling here, I could slide a plastic ❄ shovel lengthwise along a board, or cross-wise over various boards next to each other & there wouldn’t be a hitch or a ripple in the motion or the rhythm of the work. Now .. many of the boards have started to warp, nails are popping up & it’s all together rough & requires a lot more work and a different rhythm to shovel than a few months ago.

My ‘architect/contractor’ heart has been pondering as I labour to physically move precious frozen waters .. How a roof could be designed to naturally slough off 6-14” (153-356mm) accumulated ❄ without requiring manual labour to capture it for use?’

This is a particularly & increasingly important question where water is not as ubiquitous & abundant as it is here in Maine. Maine is one of the few states not having to deal with water shortages every year. I am contemplating where to settle down for a few years after completing this first RoadTrip. (Yes. I think there will be future RoadTrips.) My preferred living environments at the time of this share are Wyoming or New Mexico. Both are water-scarce environments, with drought & water ownership & common usage issues dating back a very long time.

This means I regularly think about, research & read about, daydream solutions to .. water shortages, recycling, storage, fair common use, etc. As I do this thinking & learning about ‘water’ situations locally, nationally, internationally .. I am hearing about extraordinary new inventions & ideas for addressing these issues. More on those as I share thoughts in a future Chronicle.

So, what else is happening here in-between these 4-5 hours of ❄ management?

I am working with two dear Friends to put together a website for my new company: Miracles of Mastery™. Intentions are to launch this at the end of March, start of April. Am very enthusiastic about this as I have so many things I am excited to share, learn & do with others who are interested in what I am offering.

The most-recent website I helped create was AncientFuture.Today. This is where Megan Wagner & I host our mutual project, The Mastery Project Today™ (TMPT™). TMPT™ is a 30-year project bringing together people who are conscious, intentional ‘Masters on Masterful Journeys’, interested in identifying sustainable solutions to longstanding issues on this planet & also to bring beauty to our world in the inimitable ways that humans create beauty (through art, dance, theatre, literature, architecture, ad infinitum). If you are interested to know more, you are warmly invited to see this & many other things at AncientFuture.Today website where our work is described for your
reading, doing & being pleasures!

The focus of this Chronicle has been my experience with ❄ , & I have now addressed that as thoroughly as it warrants.
I now turn my attentions to 18 🌹 Love Letters to you, you & you + 15 more You’s. To ALL of YOU who receive & read & sometimes write to tell me what you think, or what’s important to you relative to what you’re reading from me, THANK YOU, THANK YOU,
THANK YOU!!! 🙏 I am genuinely grateful & am having a genuinely good time sharing with you. 🌹

JMcL:

We met around issues of Personal Mastery & natural foods. I am so, so impressed with your entrepreneurial endeavours, your energy & your ideas. As we have spoken, I feel such a sense of some-time, some-place else being ‘family’ with you. I absolutely LOVE when that sensation floods my systems & I feel the quality of family love that is unique amongst those loves we have in our lives. It certainly brought us close very quickly for a while. And although our paths don’t cross much any more, (for who knows what reasons, & Who won’t tell ) .. you matter to me. Your well-being, happiness & fulfilment in life matter to me. May you thrive. May you be loved & love wonderfully.
May our paths cross again – often & easily. Or not, & the feelings of love stay fresh & continue to be the gifts that they are.

Blessings & gratitude, dear J.

JMJ:

You are family & I love you, even though I might not even recognise you if you walked past me one day when I wasn’t expecting to see you. It’s been THAT long since we’ve seen each other. You were born after I moved to & was living in Hong Kong & we only met occasionally when I returned to visit. Even then, it didn’t always happen that we would see each other. That said, it is easy to love you because you are an amazing person, from what your Mom tells me. She’s one of your greatest fans & I think that always says something when that happens between people of any age & their parents. Especially now that I will be living in the USA for a few years (at least) to come, may we make time & opportunities to get to know each other. I’d like that. May you experience joy, health, happiness & continued business success in all you decide to do.

Love & abig hug.

KK:

We met at a wedding I attended with my Sister-in-Love. You officiated .. so wonderfully. It was an amazing evening, filled with celebration, good cheer, great food & people who were all there to have fun & love each other. We have since stayed in touch & I am grateful for having met you. I am also grateful that you have chosen to share your own doings & beings with me on occasion. I would love to see more of that if
you are still publishing updates. Please let me know. May your work with people continue as you wish. I sense that you have a very real way of knowing how to soothe in moments of dis-stress; to uplift when down is where someone is; to guide when ‘lost’ & ‘seeking’ is the presenting state of being; & when celebrating is why you have gathered together. For welcoming me so warmly to the wedding, for staying in touch & for being someone I can easily see, respect & appreciate, thank you.

Thank you & bless you too.

KS:

I am happy we have not lost contact. Thank you for taking up your end of that mutual accomplishment. It’s been years since we have seen each other in person & that hasn’t diminished my thrill at hearing about your latest publication; circumambulation around Mt Kailash in Tibet (at the age of 80+, was it, or was that longer ago than I am remembering & you were in your 70’s?); or your journeys here & there in the world. One of the things I remember most vividly about you physically is your amazing hair. As I have aged, my hair has become baby fine &, like my Father, much thinner than it was when I was younger. You, on the other hand as you aged during the time we were in periodic contact, had the most extraordinary abundance of the thickest hair I have personally seen on a woman of years. That always pleased me to see & appreciate when we met. Part of your beauty & style, along with the rest , is that you are always beautifully & uniquely dressed, in your style. Always colourful, often ‘ethnic’ & unendingly elegant. You are an amazing, inspiring, wonderful one-of-a-kind woman/ artiste to whom I feel fortunate to have been introduced by our dear Friend SK, lo those many years ago.

Thrive well, dear KS. Blessings & Love.

KR:

I am loving on Friends with first names of K, today, okay! Ole! Dear K .. where to start with acknowledging the courage, bravery, talent, energy, creativity, sensitivity, skills, attitudes & fortitude I know you to embody in spades. My regard for you runs deeply as I know what it is to create a life & a living in a big city in which you are a single female expatriate, thriving & surviving through ups & downs of the city & its economic cycles; its his/herstory in the making .. to compete with businesses of that region with its myriad politics & vagaries of what is trendy today & forgotten easily tomorrow. .. a true heroine’s journey, yours. May your pathway be smooth & may all of the support, fun &
companionship you desire be available to you in the days now & ahead. May we stay in touch, however infrequently.

And, should we not, please know I will always think of you with appreciation, fondness & Love.

MO’D:

I have mentioned in these Chronicles the flavour & degree of ‘welcome’ I have experienced in my travels, most-recently here in Maine, USA. And I have said that, in my experience, it’s been unusual to experience warm welcome in most places I have been, either traveling through &/or traveling to for longer times to stay & experience a place. Your welcome of me in your town in the wet, dark winter months several years ago will always stand out in my heart & memory as ‘ to be remembered with gratitude & love’. You welcomed me into your home, your heart & your beautiful offerings of sound with singing bowls & gongs & your voice. Thank you dear heart. For all of that, again. And for being in the world, harsh as it is, as a bright light of love. May you be protected by guardians, guided by your own deepest wisdom & held in love from those of us (& I suspect there are many) who love you.

PS:

Who is lucky enough to have a wonderful friend who is a superb dentist? Me! You, M’am, are such an accomplished Mom, professional, citizen, family member, Friend &, &, &! I love the regular times you & I & other of our Friends would lunch & solve world problems. I will always remember you offering your flat for me to caretake & be taken care of in the process for a period of time in my long nomadic period (still happening). Our occasional talks about all things unseen were highlights in the days we had that luxury & I have fond memories about those explorations together. I wish you every joy & pleasure in life, along with continuing success & happiness. And when you are coming
stateside to visit family, please let me know. If nothing else, we could have a good long phone chat to catch up, in the same time zone for a change.

I love you dearly. Bless you.

HP:

Having met in a corporate setting – You, a key executive in-house, me – a consultant hired to walk management through some new ways of being & relating – we have come a long way in our friendship started years ago. I am so, so happy we decided to expand that beginning into what we are co-creating – you & family & me & community. Thank you for your creativity, your huge heart, your fine intelligence & your courage to take a risk personally to jump into things that were pretty far outside ‘norm’ for you. That’s where we are able to share high-play which is purposeful & to witness & celebrate the changes we’re all going through, in parallel. Your friendship is a treasure in my life.
Thank you. Bless you too, in all ways.

JL:

I have learned a lot about myself from knowing you & I thank you for that. I have learned a lot about what friendship means to me. And so many other things, too many & perhaps too personal to address in this format. Over the years we have known one another, I have thanked you countless times, wished you well as many as that at least, & loved you as much as you will allow. It is mine now to wish you every blessing of health, happiness & inner peace, sustainability & sustenance, love & the companionship you most desire in life.

May it all be yours in sweet ease.

SHM:

How to say it all in a short space, eh? Purposeful Play, Friendship, Support, Exploration, Challenge, Creativity, Caring, Sharing, Creation, Water, Art, Dogs, AD & MT & & &. I love you in so many easy ways, dear S. I marvel at your many interests & talents, your willingness to risk & to learn, your abilities to think & investigate & how sensitive & loving you are with me & all others I see & experience you being with from time to time, in many different circumstances. Thank you for your generous heart & Soul. For your enthusiasm for many things & creatures. I look forward to many years ahead of more of all of this & for whatever we decide to create together with others of like-minds & hearts.
Bless you!

GC:

We met on the phone so many years ago now, I’ve lost track of when that was. You rang, I answered. We met. We worked together. We played together. We have maintained contact. I think you are a most-gifted business executive, photographer, husband, father, son, Friend, explorer, creator & one of the most amazing sources of Love & Light I have ever known. I so would love it if we lived in community & could
interact regularly in meaningful, purposeful ways. Oh, how much fun that would be. I am happy you are happy. I am happy for the people who DO spend time with you on a regular basis. I am happy for the world that you are in it. I am happy to be your Friend. Thank you for absolutely everything so far in life.

Bless you for everything you are, be & do. I love you more than all the words I have every uttered, written, thought, read or imagined.

GK:

It is a rare gift in life to be asked to work with someone I would spend time & share what I know just for the pleasure of co-creating amazing things in that pursuit. I was gifted that opportunity with you, dear G. You, in my experience, epitomise the best of what women professionals are able to be/come as Leaders. I trust you can be proud of every thing you say, think & do when you deal with others at your levels of power & control. You, in my opinion, get to raise the bar for everyone playing corporate games in industry, your’s & others’. Know that others marvel at what a gracious, intelligent, honest & caring person you are as they learn from observing you what is possible to be, do & have outside of current Leader ‘norms’. I am so, so pleased to have taken part in the early days of your unfolding into what you are now being & doing.

Good on you. I love you, respect you & wish you every blessing as you navigate life now & ahead.

GMW/MW:

How I love you both. Don’t see either of you enough. That said, I am grateful for every time & experience we do have together. I have long recognised how wonderfully intelligent you both are. How loving you are as a couple – lovely to experience this in your presence. I notice how much & often you naturally laugh together. That, to me, is a hallmark of a relationship worth having. Light, Love & Laughter are the by-lines of the Mastery work I do. And whenever I am in the presence of all three of these together, I feel genuinely blessed. For your love & generosity over the years, thank you.

May you each & both enjoy every blessing & sweet ease in life from here, ahead.

L/SG:

To have been in your home with our mutual friends & to have seen dear brother to & through his passing moments there are experiences I will remember for the rest of this life & in future lives when looking back at ‘meaning-full moments’. The extent of your generosity is legendary. And the provision of a safe space for the last days of his life (though it wasn’t at all in any of our minds that this would transpire) was/is a gift of true friendship & Love. When I think of you both, I feel so much love & liking. That you are nurturing the plant I left with you when I embarked on my RoadTrip is such fun for me. And to see from your photo that s/he is thriving amazingly is doubly fun. It must mean that the love energies of you both & of your home extend onto the front porch! I look forward to see & spend time with you both again when our paths can easily cross.
And until then, I say, ‘Hey, love Youse’. Blessings be yours, now & always.

EMH:

You, m’dear, have such amazing writing abilities. Am thrilled you are publishing regularly. I so appreciate your humour & unique ‘seeing’. I remember a moment when you asked a question during a group call on-line, during Covid. When no one satisfactorily answered you, you laughed & concluded out loud that no one ever really knows & that it’s up to us to decide for ourselves .. whatever we are deciding. You know & I agree. What I can do, I know is really & ultimately always my decision. That was a silent agreement moment I didn’t acknowledge at the time, as it would’ve been out-ofsync with the rest of the conversation. Just thought I’d do that here so you know that I know that you know .. you know. I wish you every success & happiness, health & prosperity.

ES:

Ever since we were little kids together at family gatherings, I have thought of you as a ball of Love. And now that we’re all in our 7th decade of life, I still think of you that way – as a big ball of Love. I so appreciate that we are back in touch with each other now, after years of no contact, largely because I was overseas much of that time. I love knowing that you love me genuinely, as I do you. I am grateful that we had goofy experiences each summer for many of our growing up years as a gang of 6 cousins, riding dirt bikes & later motorcycles, & finding other things to occupy us for 2 weeks of fun.

Thank you for your support, dear ES. I love you dearly. Bless you.

EMcA: We have known each other for 35 years, I think. Worked together. Played together. Lived for a few days together & you graciously invited into your home when I needed a place to live for one of the in-between this & that times of my lifestyle. Thank you for your enduring honesty. Your desire and courageous actions to be your best self. Your caring & sharing. Your generosity of spirit & resource. Your friendship & loyalty to many friends you have had for many years. For staying in touch even though we are apart halfway around the world & for sharing so many things we both find funny. I think of you as one of the people I know whom I trust implicitly to do what you say you will – if
humanly possible. And to be the best ‘You’ possible, however & with whatever is in your power to do & be. I like you. I love you. I thank you for all the goodness & times we have shared. I look forward to more & to staying in touch as we do.

Bless you, dear E.

To us All ..
May we find in these extraordinary times of Chaos in the world, true Friendships, honest Love & the courage to think for ourselves – to question things – especially those things promulgated as ‘truth’ – which do not FEEL, SMELL or LOOK like Truth. To be kind to ourselves & each other. To share with those who have lost or left or had taken from them the people they loved & things they may need again. To be compassionate in all ways, always. And .. to Love, now & fully, cleanly without expectation of a return in any way.

Thank you for reading this Chronicle. And thank you, if you wish, to tell me if you prefer not to receive these in future. I ask you that to avoid clogging up your inbox with something you’ll just delete. That said, if you do read them, please feel free & warmly invited to let me know any response you have, to anything!

Just HAVE to share what happened overnight (between 1-9:30am) ↓ and what things looked like at 4pm today, shortly before 40mph winds blew ..↓