Six and Six

Spirit works in mysterious ways.  During my meditation this morning a new title for my book came to me - "Six and Six for a Happy Life. "    Intrigued?  The whole book is about the six activities and six values that make me happy.  Now, what does Spirit have to do with this?  As I sat watching the sun begin to peek over the horizon, six pelicans flew south right in front of my glass door  (which faces due east)  over the water only a short distance away from the shore.  This confirmed my choice of words.   But, what is particularly interesting, a few minutes later, five flew back north.  What does that mean?  For weeks I've been cogitating about one of the six values - control.  I mean to write the next book about how my values have changed over the last couple of years while I studied the Medicine Wheel and became a trained shaman.   What has changed?  Control has been changed from trying to control everyone else and instead controlling my ego.  A new value has become paramount - compassion - it will replace control.  I expect I will find many of the other values have morphed into something a bit different, perhaps drastically different in the last 15 years even though they have worked perfectly during that period.  But, I must STOP looking into the future and FINISH this book! Sometimes, I get things turned upside down.