MY FRIDAY WRAP - LIVING IN THE USA

This week Amoda and I received notification that (finally) our Green Cards have been issued and we have been welcomed to live in the United States!

We are delighted. It is the culmination of many years of discomfort and lostness in the UK followed by the complex, expensive, time consuming and (at times) stressful endeavor of coming to the US.

We have spent many of the last 6 years homeless and wandering. The process of applying for extended visas and green cards is extremely involved, arduous and costly. It is to Amoda’s persistence, skill and vision that we owe this, and of course to a fantastic lawyer. And to those who supported our GoFundMe campaign to raise funds. On my own I would never have done this, and in all honesty I still cannot believe we are here in Santa Fe, bona fide residents of this remarkable, inspiring, alarming and daunting country.

I was not planning on anything in my life. In fact when fate, grace and timing drew Amoda and I together back in 2002 I was still very lost. Much transformation had taken place but I was still amazingly stuck, directionless, in a dysfunctional relationship, physically toxic and out of touch with my core being.

And then this divine miracle happened! This miracle of a profound love entered my life and destroyed everything that was not true, everything that was not love. My marriage went, my home went, my body collapsed into major illness, my deeply held wounds rose like demons to the surface and I walked, for many years, in a long dark night. Oh! my how long it took to become who I am now. I was a man in potential, unrealized potential. Now home.

The journey of coming to America amplified everything. You simply don’t get to do this kind of thing without growing exponentially. It was done without any financial backing. We did it because we had to, drawn as we were to come to the US to allow the possibly of Amoda’s teaching to flower. But most of the time we were falling into the unknown, surfing the waves and trusting that things would work. They did, and here we are. Many folks helped us along the way, and to them we are eternally grateful.

It turned the two of us into warriors. Believe me, if I can do this, things are possible. My own transformation has been almost miraculous, and hard won. My 20s and 30s were an utter mess of addiction and dysfunctionality, a young man rebelling against life, but really just unable to bear the wounds and hurts of childhood and teenage years.

So if you doubt your inner power to transform, doubt no longer. I am here to testify that anything is possible.

And , before I leave you for the weekend, I want to pass comment on what living in the US means to us at this time of great uncertainty and upheaval. The US is at a cross roads. It has been here before. It’s serious, the decades of corruption and greed and division have come home to roost and this is it. Some folks say to us that America is the last place they would live in.

We love America, we love the American people, and we love the passion that is here and the love that is present of the country itself. Our message is well received here because people are actually open to transformation.

We were made for times like these.

Thanks so much for reading these fly away thoughts. Have a wonderful weekend.

Love Kavi