Hi Lady G, thank you 🙏💜, l feel your energy too and thank you ☺️. I have a wee something from here to take back to my altar. The sun is just rising here and l am off to have a morning dip in the sea. All the oldies are out there. I met my friends from my hometown a couple of days ago, so l meet them and we go and have coffee afterwards. We head down the coast a bit for the rest of the trip. So grateful for our connection. More soon. Thank you for sharing this piece. Love to you 😊❤️🙏
This is beautiful Simone. Your memories and thoughts flowing like the flow of life in Vietnam as you describe so gorgeously.
The heart break when hearing another couple's evening housework routine, the returning to their sacred space, your remembering of John through this. I felt that intensely and shed a tear with you:
"The domesticity, the ordinariness of our daily routine — the memory can sometimes ache like a cavity, and at other times, prompt joy and laughter." 💜🙏
Many in Wanaka leave town for a warm holiday at this time of year and Vietnam and surrounds are where so many of my friends have recently been. I am so looking forward to going myself some time.
Much Love and looking forward to hearing more of your and Team John's travels. xx
Hi Jo, Thank you for your beautiful heart felt comment. ❤️🩹
The Vietnamese people are so friendly and have a quirkiness about them, I have always enjoyed their sense of humour ... and food 🤣 🙏.. I am in An Bang (near Hoi An) atm and have caught up with some friends. We go for a 6am swim in the ocean each morning ... it is almost a bit too warm 🤣 but i am not complaining ... I will be bracing myself in the cold ocean at home soon enough. Have a great day. Much love back to you. 💙 🌊
As always beautiful post Simone! Safe travels! Thanks for sharing your history and connection with the beautiful people of Vietnam. Thank you for sharing your insights of soul. Team John. This soul journey having a human experience. Remembering. You make it better. Thanks for being- here 🙏❤️
This is so beautiful, my love! This line sings to my heart: "Our human existence is a pilgrimage of soul memory. Our experiences on the physical, emotional plane is for remembrance of what we are — one."
I have never been to Vietnam, but I feel as if I have been now. All you had to do is describe it as a river, and I was all in.
You are not alone in feeling disconnected at times; that is a common human condition, I believe. Ram Dass writes, "And when we forget—when we fall into isolation, comparison, judgment—we can return by softening. By listening. By simply being with another person without needing to fix or change them. Connection isn't something you create. It's something you remember." The wonderful part is that you are so brilliant at listening and being connected to the whole.
Oh!! You reminded me of this awesome lucid dream experience I had, probably about six months ago. I will never forget the feeling when I completely woke up. I wasn't paralyzed, but I had noticed that my legs began to tingle, for want of a better word, and it moved upward until my whole body had this sort of weighted tingly feeling that lasted for about an hour. I didn't want to move. It was SUCH a lovely experience!! I felt so empowered and bold when I was lying there, so imagine it was working everything, but especially my throat. XO
Hi Danielle, "Connection isn't something you create. It's something you remember." I love that. I like it when I can be with a friend and we can enjoy each other's company, sitting in silence — there is a comfort in being able to hold that space. That tingly feeling, sometimes I just want to stay in that zone too, that really is when we know everything is energetic and expansive beyond our body. Lots of love to you soul sister. Thank you for the connection. 😊 🙏 🥰
That's my favorite, too, Simone - when we can sit silently with a friend and let our Souls speak to each other, without awkwardness or needing to fill the space with words. Holding space for each other - our hearts and Souls. It is amazing, beyond compare. Those are ALWAYS the warmest conversations. I wish everybody felt it.
Crying is my superpower this week. Body wisdom, releasing.
Yes, crying is a super power, and laughter … the wisdom of the body, totally 💯. Love you too. Would love to sit in nature and hold space with you- forest or beach will do 😊🙏
"Attachment to emotional thought patterns manifest as stuck energy." I love this Simone, thanks for sharing! Just today I was ruminating how much of our life path is written in the tapestry of our soul and how much our thoughts actually can influence the course ... I have no answers but I am living the questions :-)
Hi Sadhbh, Thank you for reading and commenting 🙏. My understanding is that this ruminating we do, these free will choices — and at times, resultant stuck energy, is all part of the '"tapestry of our soul". I understand our human journey in this physical, emotional plane is for us to have these emotional experiences — contrast/duality, to remember and then choose Oneness. Your last comment, perhaps that is the '"answer', to be 'living the questions." — exploring and learning. Living the contrasts, knowing that we find alignment with our soul — through the emotions we choose and shift — soul expansion. Hope you're having a great day. Thanks again 💚 😊 🌀 🙏
Thank you for taking the time to invite us in during your travels, both inner and outer. I enjoyed getting to know you and your previous work/community.
I also had a personal revelation while I was reading your words. It's been a strange week for me, and this weekend I felt off, and have been trying to piece together why. I think I knew that reading your essay would help because I realized that I'm being called to grow. Kind of annoying, right? 😅 The challenges/lessons are coming in quick succession this month!
Hi Lani, thank you 🙏, your comment made me laugh in agreement, yes this call to grow can be very ‘kind of annoying.’ 😊🤣, and yes, the lessons can come in thick and fast. Thank you for reading and your well wishes - straight back at you. 💜
I’m a sensitive woman and I connect to your vibrational essence and energy, Lady Simone.
You and yours are on the alter of my everyday, lit up with candle flame and flowers 💚🪕🍸💥
Hi Lady G, thank you 🙏💜, l feel your energy too and thank you ☺️. I have a wee something from here to take back to my altar. The sun is just rising here and l am off to have a morning dip in the sea. All the oldies are out there. I met my friends from my hometown a couple of days ago, so l meet them and we go and have coffee afterwards. We head down the coast a bit for the rest of the trip. So grateful for our connection. More soon. Thank you for sharing this piece. Love to you 😊❤️🙏
A morning dip in the sea, lovely.
This came to me mind and dripped from my pen the other day, is the dreaming sea dreaming me.
Have a holy new day Simone 🙏🏻
Thank you Geraldine … being by the sea nurtures me as you know. And a peaceful evening to you. ❤️🥰🙏🏼
This is beautiful Simone. Your memories and thoughts flowing like the flow of life in Vietnam as you describe so gorgeously.
The heart break when hearing another couple's evening housework routine, the returning to their sacred space, your remembering of John through this. I felt that intensely and shed a tear with you:
"The domesticity, the ordinariness of our daily routine — the memory can sometimes ache like a cavity, and at other times, prompt joy and laughter." 💜🙏
Many in Wanaka leave town for a warm holiday at this time of year and Vietnam and surrounds are where so many of my friends have recently been. I am so looking forward to going myself some time.
Much Love and looking forward to hearing more of your and Team John's travels. xx
Hi Jo, Thank you for your beautiful heart felt comment. ❤️🩹
The Vietnamese people are so friendly and have a quirkiness about them, I have always enjoyed their sense of humour ... and food 🤣 🙏.. I am in An Bang (near Hoi An) atm and have caught up with some friends. We go for a 6am swim in the ocean each morning ... it is almost a bit too warm 🤣 but i am not complaining ... I will be bracing myself in the cold ocean at home soon enough. Have a great day. Much love back to you. 💙 🌊
So good to hear Simone. xx
As always beautiful post Simone! Safe travels! Thanks for sharing your history and connection with the beautiful people of Vietnam. Thank you for sharing your insights of soul. Team John. This soul journey having a human experience. Remembering. You make it better. Thanks for being- here 🙏❤️
Hi Jamie, Thank you 🙏 💙. You make it better too — remembering. 🌀. Bless you, thank you also for sharing your sweet soul 😊
This is so beautiful, my love! This line sings to my heart: "Our human existence is a pilgrimage of soul memory. Our experiences on the physical, emotional plane is for remembrance of what we are — one."
I have never been to Vietnam, but I feel as if I have been now. All you had to do is describe it as a river, and I was all in.
You are not alone in feeling disconnected at times; that is a common human condition, I believe. Ram Dass writes, "And when we forget—when we fall into isolation, comparison, judgment—we can return by softening. By listening. By simply being with another person without needing to fix or change them. Connection isn't something you create. It's something you remember." The wonderful part is that you are so brilliant at listening and being connected to the whole.
Oh!! You reminded me of this awesome lucid dream experience I had, probably about six months ago. I will never forget the feeling when I completely woke up. I wasn't paralyzed, but I had noticed that my legs began to tingle, for want of a better word, and it moved upward until my whole body had this sort of weighted tingly feeling that lasted for about an hour. I didn't want to move. It was SUCH a lovely experience!! I felt so empowered and bold when I was lying there, so imagine it was working everything, but especially my throat. XO
Hi Danielle, "Connection isn't something you create. It's something you remember." I love that. I like it when I can be with a friend and we can enjoy each other's company, sitting in silence — there is a comfort in being able to hold that space. That tingly feeling, sometimes I just want to stay in that zone too, that really is when we know everything is energetic and expansive beyond our body. Lots of love to you soul sister. Thank you for the connection. 😊 🙏 🥰
That's my favorite, too, Simone - when we can sit silently with a friend and let our Souls speak to each other, without awkwardness or needing to fill the space with words. Holding space for each other - our hearts and Souls. It is amazing, beyond compare. Those are ALWAYS the warmest conversations. I wish everybody felt it.
Crying is my superpower this week. Body wisdom, releasing.
Love you so much, dear one, Soul Whisperer!! XO
Yes, crying is a super power, and laughter … the wisdom of the body, totally 💯. Love you too. Would love to sit in nature and hold space with you- forest or beach will do 😊🙏
Me, too. You have no idea how much I need that. Loves! XO
Synchronicity ❤️ ... the soul sends love and it is received in the body, vibrational. 😊
"Attachment to emotional thought patterns manifest as stuck energy." I love this Simone, thanks for sharing! Just today I was ruminating how much of our life path is written in the tapestry of our soul and how much our thoughts actually can influence the course ... I have no answers but I am living the questions :-)
Hi Sadhbh, Thank you for reading and commenting 🙏. My understanding is that this ruminating we do, these free will choices — and at times, resultant stuck energy, is all part of the '"tapestry of our soul". I understand our human journey in this physical, emotional plane is for us to have these emotional experiences — contrast/duality, to remember and then choose Oneness. Your last comment, perhaps that is the '"answer', to be 'living the questions." — exploring and learning. Living the contrasts, knowing that we find alignment with our soul — through the emotions we choose and shift — soul expansion. Hope you're having a great day. Thanks again 💚 😊 🌀 🙏
Thank you for taking the time to invite us in during your travels, both inner and outer. I enjoyed getting to know you and your previous work/community.
I also had a personal revelation while I was reading your words. It's been a strange week for me, and this weekend I felt off, and have been trying to piece together why. I think I knew that reading your essay would help because I realized that I'm being called to grow. Kind of annoying, right? 😅 The challenges/lessons are coming in quick succession this month!
Safe travels, my friend, xo
Hi Lani, thank you 🙏, your comment made me laugh in agreement, yes this call to grow can be very ‘kind of annoying.’ 😊🤣, and yes, the lessons can come in thick and fast. Thank you for reading and your well wishes - straight back at you. 💜
"Our human existence is a pilgrimage of soul memory. Our experiences on the physical, emotional plane is for remembrance of what we are — one."
So beautifully captured!
Thank you for sharing this glimpse into a fascinating country and culture 💗🙏
Hi Veronika 😊. Yes, they are amazing how they blend worlds. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼💙🌊