Owl in flight.
According to Jill Townsend-Sorel, the owl protects from sudden death. The owl showed up for me in Jill’s Animal Guides workshop, and I’ve been seeing it before or around 7 am on my morning meadow walks. In a sense, moving on from this old career in the film world is a moving away from the trail of sudden near-deaths on set that were happening the last three consecutive years of that career.
After stumbling upon the delightful Erin Morgenstern, inspiration led me here to record the moment. It has been a long while since any moments have been recorded, here or anywhere, by me.
Some numbers:
just one year after relocating to Ojai from New Orleans
eleven months after the first Kundalini Yoga class and teacher training untangled my perspective
and ten months since diving in to manage two local businesses
the path continues to roll out before me like a big, fluffy red carpet.
In five days,
1. The Income Tax Course begins in Santa Barbara. It meets three times a week, from 9am to noon, MWF, until November 14th. After which I will be able to work preparing taxes in the state of California, beginning January 2012.
2. The first class in the master’s degree with a focus on accounting begins.
The prospect of building a career as an accountant brings the excitement I once felt in imagining a film career before I ever set foot on set. Only this excitement is grounded in contentment at the life I love already, daily.
Spending quality time with the cats.
Mornings working on translation and developing an online first year Italian course at Farmer & the Cook.
*Life is grand.
