Spring?!!

Well, spring has finally arrived in Montreal! Well actually, it's almost June so I suppose we're nearing summer. I've been told that spring lasts all of about 1 week sometimes here! Needless to say, I have never loved the color green so much in my life! The trees outside my window have blossomed within the last week and the color of the leaves is a poignant bright green. I've never seen anything like it before...well maybe I have and I just didn't appreciate as much as I do now. We've had a very rainy last couple of weeks, and I'm sure that it's not over. But to wake up and have days like today when there's a slight breeze blowing the curtains in my window, it's like a gift from above. There's comfort in the shy sunshine and cool breeze that makes me just want to sit on my bed and do nothing but bask in it. Moments like these I wish would never end! But I suppose I wouldn't value them as much if they lasted forever.

I can't believe that my first season with Les Grands is coming to a close. We finished our last shows this past weekend, and we will rehearse this week for our upcoming tour in July. As of Friday, we officially will be on vacation for a month! Everyone will run off to their respective homes or vacation spots. It has been a somewhat quiet season for me, but once again with numerous trials, tribulations, and of course new beginnings. It's very bizarre for me to think that just a year ago, I was beginning my move up here. Packing up my place, organizing the movers, planning my travels, saying goodbye to close friends in Miami.

A year later, here I am still settling into my neighborhood and developing wonderful friendships. At the end of this season, I consider myself very very fortunate to have met the people I have here. What a blessing it's been. Humans need one another and when you start fresh somewhere, it's easy to forget that. In some moments, I found myself plowing through life on my own without the support of others. That gets old very fast. How many times have I done this? Countless! And yet, you'd think by now I'd know better. Somehow, I think we've all been there and will continue to go there. Lose perspective. It's ok though, I think. I believe that it's a part of our human nature. At some point, we eventually realize that we're all built the same and that realization brings an overwhelming comfort in a sense of unity. It takes one person to take the stone wall down and be vulnerable for another to appreciate the value in doing the same. This is something that I am so grateful I have experienced with some here. After living in a city for eight years, developing lifelong friendships, and having to part with them, I feel confident now that I can do the same here.

That being said, one of my lifelong friends has managed to find a way back into my everyday life! Stephen was offered a job in my company and is beginning this week. I knew that when I left Miami our saga was far from over. Although I didn't know how we'd end up together again, I knew that at some point our paths would cross. I didn't expect it to be one year later! But how awesome! Now, I have two worlds colliding...a bit. It will be interesting to have an old friend blend with the new. It's sort of like when you go to a wedding and the happy couple's family and friends from all walks of life unite for one day. Except I didn't have to wait for such an occasion to have this happen! Well I know it's just one friend, but Stephen's seen so many different sides of me, I feel like he's been through many chapters of my life with me! As he begins this new chapter in his life, I'm happy that I can be here to support him through it. And I'll have the comfort of an old friend right here too.

I'll end on this note...
" 'Each man is a part of the Creator, or Cosmic Man; he has a heavenly body as well as one on earth. The human eye sees the physical form, but the inner eye penetrates more profoundly, even to the universal pattern of which each man is an integral and individual part.' "
-Sri Yukteswar from Autobiography of a Yogi

Where's the rain?

Today it's the most beautiful day here in Montreal. It's sunny and warm! Somehow though, there's one dark cloud that seems to remain. It's been here for awhile now, and won't go away. Will it rain already so that beautiful, clean and crisp air can arrive? Or maybe it IS raining and the true sun at the end of that tunnel is closer than I think. There are moments when a beautiful rainbow appears, but they don't last very long. Is that what I'm supposed to cling to? Have I lost all perception?