It stirs so much. I remember when Annika was recording his voice. I believe his name is something like Goos de Asahh… I was standing right there. She was trying to motivate him to “belt it out” and she wanted to record the feeling.

The feeling.

The feeling was a fast vibration that pierced my ear and buzzed through my head and down my body and out my toes. Some days I acknowledged the obnoxious awakening with – “Yes, I am Thank you!” Other days I countered with – “Abso – fucking- lutely! but are YOU ready?!” And there were a couple days when I just said “Thank you” and maybe it was because I was not sure.

Now I see that each call was a gift.

Hearing Annika’s recording of “Are You Ready?” took me back to me standing there smiling and giggling as I watched her coax his voice into the microphone. I remember feeling grateful for being right there in that beautiful Bali and looking around and loving all my new brothers and sisters. I felt safe and free to be open. I thought – Wow, look at me. I get to be right here; right now!

The memory is only a couple minutes long but is a reminder that time really has no meaning when we compare it to the volcanic and monumental feeling (good or bad) that is actually in it.