{"id":787,"date":"2020-09-09T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=787"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:28:16","slug":"traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/09\/traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers-1024x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers-1024x212.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers-768x159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers-604x125.jpg 604w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-7-2020-Travelers.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Travelers.m4a?_t=1599663630\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Travelers<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>There was a time:<br>a Dream Time<br>when all Dream Travelers<br>surrendered excess Dream<br>energy and left it behind<br>deposited in Secret Places<br>filled with Secret Spaces<br>the Travelers knew they would<br>find, when they returned.<br>\u00a0<br>Those saved Dream Vapors<br>allowed the Travelers \u00a0<br>forward momentum.<br>\u00a0<br>Most Travelers grasped the idea<br>and intention of leaving behind a<br>vapor trail, an energy spill, in order<br>to find their way back home and<br>return to those they knew they must find<br>inside a new and special time\u2026.<br>the Ones they promised to reconnect with<br>and to finish unfinished business.<br>Wrap things up.<br>\u00a0<br>Each life accepts a Primary Intention.<br>Every Soul seeks,<br>finds, and concludes.<br>\u00a0<br>Becoming Travelers, we return and pursue our<br>Secret Guides, often not knowing what we<br>are doing or why we are looking ~ and seldom<br>finding our Guides where they promised<br>to be or where we thought we might<br>find them (if, indeed, we thought of them at all).\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>So, we hunt.\u00a0 Still, they understand the larger<br>picture and, somehow, energy conspires to direct<br>and unite us.\u00a0 Our Guides recognize us, having<br>collected our lingering dream energy and having<br>remembered all the places of Magic and Intention:<br>The Dream Places and our Essence\u2026come Home.<br>\u00a0<br>Every life fills with<br>Magic and Secrets<br>Surprise and Wonder.<br>\u00a0<br>I walked paths<br>darkened by the<br>moon\u2019s brief shadow:<br>lit by its cuticle<br>sliver ~ rocking,<br>rocking mournfully<br>dancing painfully<br>across an indigo<br>drenched sky.<br>I thought of you.<br>\u00a0<br>Unfinished Business: sometimes joy<br>sometimes fear, sometimes pain<br>always unexpected and lesson filled.<br>\u00a0<br>We walk these Ancient roads alone.<br>The Old Ways lead us Home.<br>\u00a0<br>Each Way takes note of our passing.<br>Each Way cradles our essence<br>as we pass all Ways and wend<br>journeys, homeward, at last.<br>All expressions exist inside<br>various lanes along these<br>old, old Ways until they join.<br>\u00a0<br>We leave our flow behind<br>chiseling marks, marking paths<br>with symbols we might never<br>imagine in the next and next life<br>could we but prod them into<br>existence, carved into our being.<br>\u00a0<br>We all must live the horror and<br>the happiness if we are to reclaim our<br>place among the journey\u2019s Ways.<br>We brand each path with our dreams<br>and sorrows, weeping energy,<br>dancing joy along the Way.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey-Hughes, 2020<br>For Peter McKinnon (who knows The 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