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My Personal Journey

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I have decided that it is time that I wrote up my personal journey. Even if it is only myself that reads it then I feel that committing these words to the ether will only have beneficial effects for those who I share these thoughts with. Today I am sitting in the library of the condo where I live in Bangkok. The last six months have been a roller coaster ride of emotions and events as my new life starts to take shape even though I am facing my 61st birthday, a time when many of my contemporaries will be contemplating retirement or even have joined God's Waiting Room. This is not to be my destiny. When I have remarked over the years that I will die with my boots on little did I know how true that would turn out to be! Anyway enough for now, I feel better that I have started to commit these words to the Universe as it allows the synchronicity of life to enter and align the energy of my life to my one true desire - to become a counsellor, teacher, and advisor.
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Life is never predictable, it is meant to be this way

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I keep coming back to this Blog: it's like a time capsule where I am reminded of things that have happened to me over the last 9 years. I wish that I had written more than I have. The Blog was set up in 2008 and, in the elapsed time, I have lived in The Gambia, India, Thailand and then returned absolutely destitute to the United Kingdom in 2012. Over the last 5 years, I have been homeless but gradually picked up the pieces of my life and made some sense of the events that have highlighted my present and future pathway. Now that I am recovering from the latest scare - cancer - I feel that I am free to roam once more. November 22. 2017. That is a date with destiny.
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