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“It’s the land of my love!” declares tour director Susannah Lapp Noyes who for six years lived in Costa Rica and is well-versed in the country’s language and culture. Along with her brother and sisters, she owned and operated an organic dairy on 50 acres of lush tropical farm land. Susannah now lives in Loveland Colorado where she initiated a non-profit organization, Divine Nature Tours, and returns often to Costa Rica taking groups on nature retreats to the amazing warmth and love of a tropical paradise. Susannah is a Life Coach and practitioner of Sacred Healing Arts.Seasons come and go and we move along, traveling the roads in between as well. My summer at Sunrise Ranch was filled with loving expression, hard work, surprises (like a hail storm eating up the garden) and many wondrous accomplishments. One of the gifts most vivid to me was the time spent with my five garden team members. All younger than me, they brought me the energy of youth and preciousness of visions hovering on the horizons of life, which we could and did all share in together. And I enjoyed the 12th of each month when we were invited to join in Sweat Lodge ceremony lead by Soma Hunter.
The month of October was event-filled to the brim for me. First the completion of some of the largest and heaviest in terms of poundage, harvests at the Ranch. Over two ton of winter squash were harvested (with a lovely, refreshing burst of community help) along with corn, melons, tomatoes, garlic, onions and various late-season greens. All this we tried our best to squeeze in before my departure to New York for an operation which I had learned would be needed during my July visit to a doctor there.
The surgery was to remove various benign abdominal growths related to endometriosis and it was successful. I had a most amazing experience of flawless recovery, excellent care at the hospital and most of all a spiritual connection with my friends at Sunrise and many others who held prayer vigil, which gave me the sense of being held in peace and safety. It was a remarkable feeling, ever so comforting, and brought me back into vigor in record time.
Now we are well into November. Much more has happened in my internal and spiritual awareness. I’m back from a week in Costa Rica spent with Shamanic teacher and friend, David Ward, as he guided a healing meditation for Mother Earth on my property there, in the completing days of the Mayan Calendar. The writing below which I named, Only Good Spirits Reign Here, was written on my flight back. Meanwhile David traveled further, down to Machu Pichu and today, even as I write is holding a sacred space for the Cosmic lessons and changes spoken through Spirit on this date of 11-11-11.
For me the meaning and messages of this November 11th, 2011 day in Cosmic Time must complete themselves gradually. As I speak of in the writing below, the only truths that are real to me are truths that are recognized in my own body, mind and heart. On this day I sense that the larger scheme of what is happening now is patiently unfolding within me – powerfully, surely, and step by sacred step.
But this much I will share, that in the depth of night, last night, my Angels carried me off to visit and explore the many, revolving wheels of Life within Life – from microscopic cells competing to be known, to vast lands of people and places where my healing love would be needed many times over. It was profound for me and moves me further into the commitment that I also speak of below, in Only Good Spirits Reign Here. Most easily said it is the simple work of taking each step in my life with loving care, with reverence, with open, pure heart, with honesty, with willingness, kindness and in unswerving truth.
All this and more is real to me on this Day.
