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Long week...
The Book View Cafe sites have been down for TWO days. As we were loading the new ebookstore for its launch. we are not only disappointed and annoyed but now behind our scheduled testing of the site.
STABBITY * STABBITY * STABBITY
Well, had my third NLP seminar weekend. The people teaching, Keith Fail, Katie Raver and other local NLP practitioners assisting, did a great job. This was especially impressive because our original senior teacher, Tom Best, died suddenly and peacefully on the 24th. He'd had an outstanding weekend teaching a short seminar here in the Austin area, and a lovely morning with his wife and their beloved dogs. Tom laid down for a short nap and never woke up.
I felt that I had found a new teacher for the next step in my evolution. The only reason I did not shake out my piggy bank and take that class last weekend was because I am so new to NLP, I thought I might hold back the group, or spend the weekend bewildered. If there's ever a next time, I'm shaking out the piggy bank. I hadn't offered him a hug yet, either, because he was simultaneously the most generous, compassionate soul I've ever met, and a very private man. He shared so much of himself, he and his wife Bobbi, that I did not want to intrude on their private time. So Bobbi will have to take his hugs, too, next time I see her.
I can see Tom grinning, because he's still teaching us, just from the next plane. He launched us, and now I have to do my part and learn what has been set before me, and teach what I can. On the one hand it seems odd to keep tearing up for a man I had known less than a month. But he was the kind of person who touched so many lives, so many places - who gave so much, continuously, making the world a better place.
It seems right to grieve for those of us he had to leave behind. Tom's out on the next great adventure, and I suspect he will be with all of us, too. Tom clearly loved water, judging from the photos I've seen posted by his friends and students. I don't know if he ever got to see the Great Lakes - but here's a picture I took of Lake Michigan, Tom. I recommend you check it out. I wish I could have invited you up there to teach on the white sands, but another time...another life.
STABBITY * STABBITY * STABBITY
Well, had my third NLP seminar weekend. The people teaching, Keith Fail, Katie Raver and other local NLP practitioners assisting, did a great job. This was especially impressive because our original senior teacher, Tom Best, died suddenly and peacefully on the 24th. He'd had an outstanding weekend teaching a short seminar here in the Austin area, and a lovely morning with his wife and their beloved dogs. Tom laid down for a short nap and never woke up.
I felt that I had found a new teacher for the next step in my evolution. The only reason I did not shake out my piggy bank and take that class last weekend was because I am so new to NLP, I thought I might hold back the group, or spend the weekend bewildered. If there's ever a next time, I'm shaking out the piggy bank. I hadn't offered him a hug yet, either, because he was simultaneously the most generous, compassionate soul I've ever met, and a very private man. He shared so much of himself, he and his wife Bobbi, that I did not want to intrude on their private time. So Bobbi will have to take his hugs, too, next time I see her.
I can see Tom grinning, because he's still teaching us, just from the next plane. He launched us, and now I have to do my part and learn what has been set before me, and teach what I can. On the one hand it seems odd to keep tearing up for a man I had known less than a month. But he was the kind of person who touched so many lives, so many places - who gave so much, continuously, making the world a better place.
It seems right to grieve for those of us he had to leave behind. Tom's out on the next great adventure, and I suspect he will be with all of us, too. Tom clearly loved water, judging from the photos I've seen posted by his friends and students. I don't know if he ever got to see the Great Lakes - but here's a picture I took of Lake Michigan, Tom. I recommend you check it out. I wish I could have invited you up there to teach on the white sands, but another time...another life.
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I just learned that that same Tuesday morning, the South Dakota / North Dakota Sioux lost a shining light, as well: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/29/1086590/-Warrior-Woman-Georgia-Little-Shield-Has-Entered-the-Spirit-World
Apparently something BIG is up, that two bright lights left at just about the same time.
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Now we have to keep passing on fragments of light.
Beauty in many forms
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