Phew, what a day! I was excited about getting to Colorado and starting my first CORE. An interesting phenomenon occurred: I felt kind of spacy, and I noticed that I was really "vibrating". It was almost the shakes, but not quite. Another student remarked on the same thing happening to her today. Fascinating!
The trip to Colorado was uneventful, but I'll tell you what. A carry-on bag that goes into the overhead bin is a monumental pain in the bum. I had to put my bag up a couple rows behind where I was sitting, so of course when we were deplaning it took some time to get it, and had to be passed over the heads of a couple of passengers. I thought it was pretty amusing, but no one else was smiling. Guess they just wanted to get off the plane! It seems the world is becoming quite a grim place - or maybe I just have a totally twisted sense of humor.
Kelly from Touched By A Horse picked me up at the airport, and what a pleasant trip it was up to the ranch! Kelly was in the Navy, so of course I told him about my stepdaughter, Hilary, who is serving right now, and we talked about all manner of things. I felt so at home with Kelly, and can't thank him enough for being so open and caring and helping me feel like one of the gang.
I'm so glad I decided to bring lots of layers! Earlier in the week, the weather was predicted to be sunny and in the high 50's, but in typical mercurial Colorado style, somewhere along the line that changed to cold and maybe even a little snow. Brrrrr! Lots of dark clouds and dramatic weather this evening - it was GREAT after the dreary day-after-day rain of a typical Northwest winter!
There are eight participants in this weekend's CORE, a wonderful number. It provides us with a little extra time to get things done, which means we get to start a little later for a couple of the days - woo hoooo! After getting up at 4:45 am every morning, just the thought of sleeping in until 6 or 7 is a total treat!
This first evening was a checkin and then we did a couple of exercises, learning a couple of the tools for our toolbox. I got to be the client for a couple of more seasoned students, and it was a wonderful experience. Lots of things around fear came up for me. It will be interesting to see how they play out over the weekend.
Time to settle in for the night, call my beloved, and then get some shuteye. It's great to be here!
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