Friday, November 14, 2008

After sliding on the ice-covered streets in Greenland,hiking through the Badlands, perusing the cathedralsin Spain, clinging to my father as we ascended theEiffel Tower in Paris, moving myself cross countrythree different times, frolicking in the Dead Sea,49ing at Gathering of Nations, scaling the pyramids atChichen Itza, traversing Russia from Siberia toMoscow, savoring the taste of salmon in Kamchatka,galloping across the prairie in Mongolia, feasting onsushi in Tokyo, fancy shawling for a crowd of 40,000in Papua New Guinea, witnessing a high speed chase inSydney, trusting Divine intervention in Indonesia,scouring the beaches of the South China Sea inMalaysia, round dancing in the ancient castles ofHungary, savoring the beauty of Switzerland, landingin Austria, knowing both rez live and urban life,learning a Pueblo dance in Fiji, faring the jungles ofThailand, appreciating the steadfastness of Baha'isin Laos, trusting my life with the drivers in SouthKorea, prostrating at Baha'u'llah's house in Turkey,jingle dancing in Singapore, relishing the Jemez Springs in New Mexico, being honored at a Moriah inNew Zealand, navigating the trains of London,admiring the beauty of the prairie from the top of theWichita Mountains in Oklahoma, struggling to adapt tothe simplicity of Czechoslovakia (when it was Czechoslovakia), being within a few feet of a moosein British Columbia, trudging the streets of whatseemed every city in Poland while carrying mysuitcase with my dance outfit, traveling with Maxwellworkshop in Whitehorse, Yukon, drinking hot tea on acold winter night in Liechtenstein, sleeping for hourson the floor of the Amsterdam airport, experiencingRuhi for the first time in Alberta, crying at thethought of leaving Ruhiyyih Khanum in Hong Kong afterescorting her for one month through the SzechuanProvince in China, loving deeply, surviving severalheart breaks, and after four years recently learning Ihave the capacity to love again, traveling to 30countries before age 30, learning about unconditionallove through the birth of my beautiful daughter, andrejuvenating my soul at the Shrine of Baha'u'llah, Irealize that to those whom much is given, much isexpected!