The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind

John Denver and Joan Baez team up to sing "Blowing in the Wind" (written by Bob Dylan) at the 1983 Grammy Awards.

In April 2007, something happened that "blew" me away. I don’t understand. If I thought I did understand, that would just be my ego talking. This is the story...........
I had been experimenting with a young friend of mine who had learnt a modality (she called it) called The Reconnection which was devised by a guy called Eric Pearl. I didn’t know that much about it (although my friend lent me the book of his story) but I was game enough to give it a go. I’d had a few sessions and I’d been having some visions and interesting thoughts.
That aside there was one particular day which was windy. With a heightened sense of awareness, I noticed the wind chimes seemed more distinct, I was also listening to John Denver’s “Calypso” and for the first time I noticed a bell clanging. Another synchronicity was that John Denver’s song “It’s about Time” came on the stereo just as I was reading that same phrase in a journal. In the evening, my friend and I attended a spiritual church (not a regular thing but just felt like it this night). There was an interesting guest speaker who spoke about “The Four Agreements”

We sang 3-4 songs, one which was “Blowing in the Wind” and the speaker, Joseph tied the theme of blowing in the wind into his talk. It was a great night and I went home on a high.
As often happens when I’ve had a stimulating day, my mind was racing and I found it hard to get off to sleep ( not an unusual occurrence for me when hypomanic with bipolar). At 2 am I was sitting up in bed eating porridge and just before I went to sleep I said a prayer.. “please God show me whether I can totally trust my mind and what it tells me? Am I crazy?”
The next morning, still half asleep I was heading to the kitchen for a drink and as I walked passed the bookshelf I instinctively grabbed the Bible (The Message). There was a page marked with a bookmark and I just thought it would be the parable of the five talents (as that story has bugged me for many years and I had often referred to it). Instead the page which was earmarked was in Revelations.
I had forgotten that in January, when I had been quite “high” I had written stuff all over some of the pages of Revelations, most of it quite cryptic.
However, at the top of this page I had written “The Answer is Blowing in the Wind” I don’t pretend to know the meaning of it all, except I have many stories with “wind” connections and usually to do with John Denver. Whether this story proves I’m crazy or I’m not crazy, it is amazing to me. The heightened sense of awareness of the wind chimes rings in my memory.
I’ve written another story about a balloon blowing in the wind and how it is a perfect metaphor for surrender. Also the symbol of dandelions blowing in the wind resonates with me and this story.

24th August 2013...... today a guy called Rory Young posted this pic on face book. Full circle! Suddenly many things make sense. The answer is surely blowing in the wind in more ways than one.

 28th August, 2013

After days of a testing hypomania and not much sleep, today I drew out a goddess card. It said (amongst other things) "take a leap of faith....... " also "go outside"... the best I could handle was to go out on the balcony and there I discovered this little "Flower that shattered the Stone" .... and that is a part of another story... But - we ALL have a story. :)

John Denver's Favourite song - never recorded by him:

Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man