Three key rings and no keys...

It was exactly fourteen years ago this day, 8th June 1998, that Judy and I were on the island of Iona. We had taken a long walk to St Columba's bay and it was as we walked back towards the Abbey that we realised at the same moment that our lives were inextricably to be linked. We had no idea how we could achieve that, with Judy living in New York and I living in England.


Visiting the bay some years later we glimpsed a huge rainbow overhead, and, when we visited Iona in April this year we were greeted with a giant rainbow arcing over Mull.

It seems curiously appropriate to be spending our last 48 hours in Dorking with stormy weather all around and sheets of rain spreading across the hills.
And now, we are about to set sail on another chapter of our journey together... no idea what or how we will journey, but together, we will.


Nicholas


On so many levels, I am certain of the path we are on...however, there are very few definitive answers. Where we will rent initially is not in question, where our home will be built is also not a question. But what the house will look like, where we will live, what friendships will begin, what friendships will be renewed, where we will work, how we will spend our days for the rest of our lives....these are all questions. 


I am at peace with this. I really am. It will become evident and we will continue on the path, each step guided by the spirit in each of us that has brought us safe thus far.


On the mantel of the fireplace in our room at the B&B something caught my eye this morning...

These are the empty key rings from our life here...


1) Opened the door to our home and my healing studio


2) Held the ignition key to our car


3) Was attached to the keys to Nicholas' surgery


I can only anticipate with hope, wonder and excitement what they will next hold for us.


Judy