Learning new things continues to inspire me. I started Free Spirit Crystals in 1991 and began an entirely new phase of learning - about life, about Spirit, about healing, about being, about opening my mind and allowing for the possiblity that anything can happen. That expansion has given me the opportunity to live a life I never could have imagined. What if I had decided, for security sake, to continue in food service management for the rest of my life and forsake my inner voice which called me to change? I would have never experienced the amazing process of awakening, of shedding the past and outgrowing my childhood conditioning. I would have never given myself the freedom to move towards my spirit, to create a new life inspired by a quest to evolve. I would have been poorer for not having met all the wonderful people; I would not have all these beautiful friends and amazing teachers in my life. I would not have the inner strength that I cultivated through my unfolding and I would not be who I am today had I ignored the restless feelings that prodded me to leave behind the familiar and chance the unknown. I am so grateful to Spirit for Its diligence in not giving up on me so that I wouldn't give up on myself. I continue to learn something every day, whether that is a life lesson, a new fact about stones or how to maneuver more easily through computer-dom and I do it with an enthusiastic longing that propels me to continually challenge myself. Oh, I still get my days when all I want to do is sit around in my pajamas, eat and watch mindless television but those days are fewer and not as much fun as they used to be. I'm turning 59 this year and feeling that urgency to learn and grow as much as I can for the next few decades because I don't want to leave here knowing that I could have finished one more thing if I had just tried a tiny bit harder. I'm loving this wonderful life that I've been given; it's a ride that I cherish, a ride that I hope will make a difference in this world, a ride unlike any one else's. Let go of the reins, take off the seat belt, untie the tethers of the past and take your own wild, uninhibited ride.........WooHoo!