Last month, before travelling to Westerbeke Ranch for the first module of the Heartbeat Training, my steps on this 5Rhythms teacher’s path brought me into the city of the Golden Gate. I had wonderful company to spend a day with, a young colleague from Spain. With emphasis on young…
She has the same age as my eldest daughter and we always make fun about this age difference… I call her my extra daughter and I am a kind of extra mother to her… we share a friendship that is dear to me…
So, we spent the hottest day ever in San Francisco, together, biking… biking hill up, hill down… mostly hill up… yes, I felt old… her energy, her power, her velocity… her hills were definitely not as steep as mine… but she was kind, waited for me every now and then and after a few hours the heat got grip on her as well…
After some strenuous hours we reached the Golden Gate Bridge, tired and sweating, me longing for a break and she making contact with another young one, offering her I-phone and asking this teenager if he could make a Boomerang of the two of us and the bridge…
A Boomerang? Yes. A Boomerang. Followed by a Time Lapse while I was biking on the Golden Gate Bridge, a Boomerang hoovering the floors of our appartment, and an endless series of Duo-Selfies… The next day I found myself on her Facebook page, exposed in several funny pictures and video’s… I liked them 🙂
How I love these young ones and their crazy new creativity…!!!
Last weekend I sat next to my same-age-as-me husband in a sunlit flower garden with a fountain, in the midst of the busy centre of Amsterdam, saying: “If Irene would be here, she would make a video of me dancing in that fountain…”
“Well,” said the man I love “For now, I will be your Irene…”
