Click the photo to enlargeThe Saint Christopher medal is a thoughtful gift from a very dear friend.
First Camp - On the Outskirts of Yarmouth
Second Camp - An East Pubnico Cemetary
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The Actual Cornflake
About Me
- ~Bob Viens
- Before this lucky adventure, I worked at a car dealership in Southern Vermont doing Internet stuff to pay the bills and was active and involved in making my home town a better place. My joy in life has come from being involved in the community and volunteering as a photography instructor to teens at a non-profit photo project one street down from the best downtown apartment on the planet. When I was faced with the double wammy of losing my day job and my dream job in the same week, I took the advice of a dear friend to listen to the universe and travel. Thus begins my odyssey.
1 comment:
Hello Bob,
You are a kindred spirit! I connected to your blog just when you started
your journey
and have travelled along ever since. I have been tempted to make comments but
remember something my daughter told me some years back “mom, I don't want your advise
just want you to listen” and so I have listened as you have taken your journey and
worked through “life”.
A lesson I have learned though is that we are all connected and we all have the same
yearnings, concerns and questions but some of us choose to ignore them, some blot them
out with vices, others keep them close to the chest and try and work them out
themselves(can't be done) and then others share. In sharing, we all learn.... some
of us loosen the grip on what we are feeling, others experience “ah ha” moments when we
recognize that we are not alone or that we are on the right path.
I struggled most of my life trying to be what I think “others” want me to be or what I
think I “should be” instead of doing what gives me “bliss” which is doing for others,
whether it is helping to clean up after a “feast”, sharing my passion for the place
that I live with visitors, helping a friend buck and split fire wood or house/kid/pet
sitting. Where as I am always questioning or thinking far too much about a
“career/job” choice when I follow my "bliss", my work becomes my life and I want for
nothing.
You are on the right track and you have affirmed mine! And you don't need the genetics
lab....you have already left the best part of you with everyone you have encountered
and that is your kind heart. You have left your mark and have changed the lives of
everyone you have touched as they have changed you. You are where you need to be... in
your heart...the rest will follow.
Smiles
Carolyn
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take
our breath away." George Carlin
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