#52 October 30, 2021 On My Mind: My Final Saturday "EPT" Appointment; Upcoming Travel Plans; Current Cold Weather and Southern Winter
On my mind today was my final Saturday appointment at my EPT business. It makes me teary. I really love my clients, and I have shared many good-byes in the past month. Today was one more. Each person giving me a long hug and letting me know they are thankful for me. Some crying happy tears while they tell me how I have helped them through physical and emotional challenges. EPT explores the link through the body's perceptions and immune system reactions that are linked together. Some of my clients have been with me regularly for 10 years, down to a few weeks. Since 1994, I determined to learn EPT, Emotional Polarity Technique. It was then that EPT was being developed by my sister, Dr. Annette Cargioli, and she practiced her new psychological-mental-physical discoveries on me. My healing was so profound, that I know she saved me from much suffering and likely changed the trajectory of my wellness. It was then, that our mother followed Annette around to her patients and wrote down EPT for sharing through classes. I began learning EPT way back then. I ran an EPT business as our family moved from place to place with Darrell's job changes. I served on Dr. Annette's Council through the years, and taught the EPT technique to many of the current practitioners.
As I have been a sole proprietor for years, and also enjoyed the backing of Madison Drugs while in Huntsville, Alabama, I am ceasing work on November 12th. I am retiring myself to experience a different kind of life without business responsibilities. I announced my retirement about a year ago as a way to decelerate my long-term business relationships that I have been emeshed in. This change and self-willed transition is bringing up questions and situations that are new to me, and this is ok. There are unknowns about this change and how it is changing me.
As I face many unknowns, I do know that love and goodness are with me and exist in every space and place. I appreciate the freedom and the joy of creating something new for Darrell and myself. It is so true that our Nomad Life decisions have brought us into even greater changes and letting go of our things for this life traveling experience.
One of my friends asked me if I knew anyone who is a Nomad like us. No, I don't. I read stories online, Darrell follows blogs and reads me stories from online. Each person's story is unique. I'm embracing how unique our story is. I'm so grateful that we are making our choices to experience our life in this way at this time. A couple of comments from others have been spoken to us about their ability to make similar nomad choices, but the inability for their spouse to agree to being a nomad.
As we have been living in airbnb's for over a year now, it has given us really great practice living together in small places, and learning how much it costs to be us. We began tracking our spending in the summer of 2020. It is counterintuitive that we spend less overall living this itinerant life-style. Not owning a house, we don't stock up on sale items, we eat out more often, I bake less, we eat simpler, we purchase less household items as they are provided in our airbnb's. We have given up square-footage, personally designed spaces, house guests, our stuff and storing our stuff in our house, excess clothing, just to name a few things quickly.
Making soup at our airbnb with our fresh veggies in our Insta-Pot.
We attend a church regularly. Our friends there have seen us and known us as travelers for years. Now, they are hearing about our Nomad adventures, and they often are having conversations with us to ask where we are going next. Our upcoming travel plans are often in conversations, and difficult to keep up with too. This is one reason I began this weekly blog so my friends and family can always check-in on where we are this week.
Our next trip is a roadtrip beginning on Wednesday to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. We are driving up over two days to our nephew, Zach Hamilton's wedding on Friday. Next Saturday's blog will be starting in Gettysburg, and traveling to Virginia to spend a few days with Glenn and Phoebe's family, Darrell's youngest brother and their grown daughters.
Last night we went to a Halloween party. I cut a paper bag into a vintage-sort of TV screen and put it over my head and put on two finger puppets as I was the only TV show on. I got caught in a picture with two cutie sisters in amazing Robot costumes made by their mother!! Each personality is shining through in this picture. A cool thing about the little red headed girl, is that my sister, Annette looked like her when she was a child! I have an extra soft spot in my heart for this familiar family trait showing up in this little friend of mine.
It has been cold and drizzly here for about 3 days now. Today the weather has hung around 50 degrees. We are in a small house, next to a big house on top of Keel Mountain, east of Huntsville. The photos of our yard and out our screened patio, show the clouds hanging low and also the beautiful colors of the leaves changing.
Yesterday, I was able to go rock my 6 week old grandson Owen to sleep during a short visit. Today I enjoyed singing 'our' song to 14 month old Quinn by video call. He smiles and listens while his Dad or Mom, move his arms to my song, "Skiminy Rinky Dinky Dink...I love you...I love your Mama...I love your Daddy..." He smiles and that makes my heart happy!
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