I may have forced the hand

In a variety of ways… by following my bliss, getting out of town, exploring as well as being open, ability to commit elsewhere after diving in and investing myself/working my patootie off…

“What in the world?!” you ask? Legit question, but lemme add this. I don’t pretend to “know” what lays behind the machinations of Universe, what constitutes karma/luck/destiny. What I do know is that diving in, offering myself to it, lowering my expectations as I inversely submit my openness and energies the mystery behind “chance/coincidence” the deeper my relationship to it becomes.

Okay maybe that doesn’t clarify things, let’s examine this example:

Put it out there, pick up the phone, reach past the cozy envelope, ssstreeeeetch and poke and prod. The above conversation occurred last night after speaking with an employee there. Conveniently I popped up to P&Js first to learn about all the sirens I had been hearing heading west. Hadn’t heard LifeFlight so didn’t think it as a car wreck, and some of the sirens weren’t moving fast, had a fair bit of road/tire noise with them. That spells FIRE!

I also know that said employee shows up around 7p, so not only did I learn about the fire (a trailer full of of TP went up, driver fortunately was able to uncouple the tractor but the fire moved off the road into the woods) but got the inside scoop on the Masons opening. “Did (the manager) call you?”

Nope, but I forced the hand, exemplified by the image of the (beginning of the) conversation above. I have nothing to loose by reaching out, I HAVE a job waiting for me…

I’ll suit up and bop into town and will know in a few hours if I’m not moving to PA for the summer. Regardless I’ll be there this weekend, but I can haul my motocamping kit back with me, tend to my cabin and son versus diving into my bliss.

I WANT to motorcycle, motocamp. I was able to do so, expanding on last spring’s adventure, I’ve made a good connection in the area I love to ride and might move to, but there are other things on the table, more pressing issues.

Back to the title of the post, did my committing to my passion, by following my bliss and putting myself out there facilitate what truly needs to be happening? As I heard Uncle Caleb’s wife say decades ago in the Far Fields kitchen, “Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.”

…Or as Van Morrison has said, “It ain’t why, it just is!”