be the change - tread the path

I’ve finally gone and done it and moved lock, stock and barrel into my new Home here at SoulTerminal.com (be the change – tread the path). Sincere apologies to those of you that have been re-directed here from the Blogger site but the limitations were beginning to stifle my creativity and the projects I have in mind for further readership participation could not have been achieved with that platform.

I give HUGE thanks to Blogger for providing me with the ‘test bed’ to try out my skills and the ‘launch-pad’ that enabled me to embrace my creativity but everything good must come to an end and it was time for me to move on.

To my readers I sincerely hope that you will stick with me through this transition and that it will inspire you further to drop by and say Hi. I have managed to import all of your wonderful comments but alas the links back to your own work were lost in the move. If you are a subscriber can I ask you to re-subscribe to this new site and if you weren’t previously – Why Not Join now?

Behind the Writing and Site-building an amazing Community has developed and all of them give unconditionally. They are all wonderful Authors in their own right and many an e-mail for help and assistance flies through the Ether finding many an eager helper just waiting to lend a hand. I thought it pertinent to share this email I sent to my friends – each and every one of them Spiritual Bloggers.

All,

Many thanks for your help and guidance - especially Vera who sent me an extensive e-mail explaining the ups and downs of 301 re-directs but I’ve taken the plunge and reached my plateau at The Soul Terminal (be the change - tread the path).

I’d love to have all the links intact and I feel like I’m leaving my baby out in the cold but I’ve already spent about 4 hours today downloading, saving back-ups, amending templates, nudging, tinkering, fiddling - Aaarrrrgh! My time would have been much better spent doing four hours of writing, reading your articles or working on the new site.

I’ve got a re-direct working from Blogger, it’s not pretty but it’s functional and many have failed and collapsed into gibbering wrecks where I have finally overcome.

So I’ve made a decision - enough distractions and worrying about the past - if it is lost or people don’t wish to seek me out, then so be it - they weren’t meant to find us anyway - LOL. All of us promote Living in the moment so that’s what I’m going to do - the past has gone and serves me no purpose now - bye bye Blogger I enjoyed learning with you.

All of the links leading to my friends are still intact so that is fine with me - I’ll just have to work harder to produce better quality and a further reaching and loyal readership. “If I build it - they will come”. All your links, for which I am eternally grateful, will find my new site eventually but will head straight for the Home Page - so if you could bear that in mind with any future ‘updates’ please do but don’t go wasting your time amending things - I’d rather you wrote more articles for me to pour through.

One slight gift I’d like to ask of you - if you have a Blogroll could you see your way to updating the link? - Many Thanks.

Another fave film quote of mine is “We are the music-makers - and We are the Dreamers of the Dreams” - I think that applies to US, doncha think?

So no more deliberating and fiddling - let the show commence –

Ta-DAAAAAAAAAAAA www.soulterminal.com is now open for business

Call in and make yourself at home - Any suggestions or constructive criticism are VERY welcome,

Must go - I’m tear’ing up and getting all emotional

Much Love,

Damian

But (there’s always a ‘but’ in life) just as I moved the site to www.soulterminal.com everything around me came crashing down. I had two weeks of ‘transformation’ which I explained to my friends in the following email on my return.

Hi All,

I hope you and yours are prospering and I actually got up at 5:00 a.m. to catch up with all the articles I’ve been missing SO much - those written by YOU

What a heavy few weeks I’ve had - and thanks again for all your concerns and thoughts, the phone call from Vera saying that You were all thinking about me was THE lift I needed at just the right time.

It seems that Spirit had decided to bring EVERYTHING to a head and it all came crashing down around me - but it NEEDED to happen as I’d slipped into a rut and my life was totally out of balance.

In one day I had letters from both my bank and my credit card saying that they were defaulting (about $60,000 in total), I received a letter from work which was initiating dismissal procedures, my phone/TV/Broadband was cut off, the brakes on my car wore down to the point of unsafe and my partner told me she wanted me to leave her and my children. 

This all came to a climax around 9 O’Clock in the evening and when it looked to be crashing in on me I had an overwhelming urge to put on my shoes and go walking - not in a ‘running away from it all’ kind of way, I’m not one who runs away from anything, but a buzzing energy that set me moving.

The kids were safely tucked up in bed and my partner was building up a frenzy of blaming me for everything that had ever happened in her life and I set off with no money and no idea where I was going.

My feet took me down to a local Country Park and I had to walk through a group of teenagers who hurled abuse as I walked by hoping for a reaction on my part - in the past I wouldn’t have hesitated to take this opportunity to unleash my frustrations and anger, but I just kept my head down and continued walking down a lonely lane wondering if they would follow and grateful for all of us when they didn’t.

I walked down the lane that I had walked down many times before and noticed a new path to the left that I’d never noticed before and followed this new path. My thoughts were cycling through self-pity, blame, anger, despair, promise and tears were flowing as I thought of being seperated from my family.

I walked further and started to take more notice of the beautiful evening, the trees, the birds singing the sun down to dusk and the winding path beneath my feet - then it hit me - I was BEING my tag-line again (Slade pointed this out to me only a couple of days before) I was literally ‘TREADING THE PATH’ and the what I had to do to next was to ‘BE THE CHANGE’ - how could I have known that months ago when I set up a Blog for a bit of fun?!?!

I carried on walking and passed another man out on an evening stroll who greeted me and said “Isn’t it beautiful”, in his mind probably meaning the evening but it meant so much more to me, “It certainly is”, I replied - meaning the Whole of LIFE!

I carried on my walk and realised that after around 3 hours walking I was heading back in the direction of home - the paths and streets had conspired to send me back to my family.

I faced an adamant partner who projected all the failings of life in my direction and I tried to explain the process I was going through, but understandably it fell on deaf ears and she went to bed in a huff.

So the next day I began my revival and decorated the childrens bedroom and started work on the garden. I rang my friends in the Freemasons and told them I would be resigning from everything to spend more time with my family. I went to the Doctors and have been registered off work sick for a month which means I will still receive full pay while the situation is resolved and I took partner and the children for an hours walk in the Countryside. 

Over the last few weeks I’ve walked more and more up to 3 hours on some days, I’ve nearly decorated the whole house, the Garden is looking wonderful, I’ve been out with the children to Museums/Cinema/Country Parks and have been giving Tarot readings.

My partner is actually being nice to me too - talking about us going on holiday with the kids and getting married, what a turnaround in just a few weeks!

I’ve also been told that I look as though I’ve lost around 3 stone in weight and as I’m overweight that’s certainly good news for me.

So the ‘Shift’ has happened to me and the only way is up from here on in. I’m firmly on my path and although there are still many things that I need to sort out I know I have the power in myself to do it - no more ‘I’ll do that tomorrow’ only ‘lets get it done NOW’ for me.

So I’ll be moderating my time on the Net from here on in and will be making sure I spend more time ‘Treading my path’ but rest assured that you all played an integral part in ‘The Change’ and I hope will continue to do so. Our Community is very important to me and together we can all reach new heights.

Much Love to you all and thanks for BEing there,

Damian  

So big thanks to the following members of my on-line Community (in no particular order) and most especially THANK YOU to All my readers:-

Debs

Slade

Vera

Kara-Leah

Jeff

Albert

Adam

Tony

Anita

Your love, support and Friendship means so much to me.

Much Love,

Damian