Farewell Cortes! For now...

I'm off the island....I've been in Vancouver for 2 hours and I miss Cortes already.  I want to take this opportunity to say a sincere thank you to the Cortes Community.  I cannot express in words the richness of my experience there.  The opportunity for deepening into an already intense life process was exactly what I needed to prepare for the world.  Literally and in all sorts of other ways.

Thank you to Hollyhock for giving me the reason to come to the island.  Thank you Rosita for your love and support.  I wish you and your family all the best in your adventures. Let's stay in touch!!! Rebeka and the Kitchen staff, thank you for the lovely nourishing food as well as the support and encouragement.  To the rest of the staff it was a great pleasure to get to know you and work with you.

David D.  A special thank you for your generosity in allowing me to stay at Tealcroft with all the provisions that you included.  It made the power outages not only bearable but fun!  Your love and light is a blessing to Cortes and the world.

Thank you to the Cortes Community for a warm welcoming embrace.  I imagine it's hard getting to know people as most who come to the island are transients.  You sure do make it hard to leave though!!  Thank you to all the well wishers and those who provided valuable information on traveling.  I feel more safe and secure about my meanderings. I wish you all well and I will continue to support the community in anyway I can.  Even though I was only there for 3 months, Cortes feels like home.

A whole hearted deep bow to my lovely neighbour Fraser, who restored my faith in the Good, True and Beautiful.  My eternal gratitude to you.  I wish you well in your inner and outer journey's.  Stay safe and stay healthy.  See you later in this life and probably the next ;-)

To Mario and Alanha...thank you for Ultimate!  It was nice to be able to run and have fun!!  Thank you for your company and support.  But most of all...Thank you for giving me yet another reason to return to Cortes! Your friendship was enough to get me back, you didn't need to offer storage.  However, as you know I'm eternally grateful for your help.

And of course a very VERY BIG THANK YOU to my roommates....Shalon, Glenna, Theresa and Rod...What a gift, honour and delight it was to share this time with you all.  Through the good and difficult times, I am a better person for having you all in my life.  May you all be blessed in your life journeys.

I cannot say enough about Cortes.  It challenged me, it held me, it loved me and it healed me.  How could I not fall in love with it!!!

Where am I??

BIG HUGS TO YOU ALL!!!