With technology, there is so much isolation with people now,
that there are very few places where you can connect.
*Mireille Guiliano I am directionally challenged. Recently, I drove to Boone, NC, for darshan with Mother Meera using printed Mapquest directions. That’s right, no IPhone and no car GPS.
Mapquest easily got me to Boone proper. However, as I headed up the multiple winding mountain roads, I knew I was lost. As a car passed me in the other direction I honked and waved -- she stopped, backed up, had me turn around and lead me to where I was headed… I made it – though 20 minutes late.
As I left darshan, I knew my directional challenges would still be in play. I asked the man walking next to me if he was headed back to Boone if I could follow him – he was and I did.
Once back in civilization, B. pulled into a strip mall, parked and I parked next to him. We stopped for coffee in a cafe where B. and I shared our personal experiences of being caregivers for our loved ones as they died. I shared about a recent visit to Oak Park, IL, to visit my father’s gravesite after sixty years. He shared how he was now happily married for six years.
While I do love being greeted upon arrival home by Grace, my ten-year old Tortoiseshell cat, having the heartfelt connection B. and I experienced was well worth the delay -- all thanks to no GPS.
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*author French Women Don't Get Facelifts:
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I believe life has many directional opportunities, with or without technology! ;)
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