With a eleven days ahead of us before we leave, conversations are growing, and more ideas are being implemented into our tour. We are now in the process of creating a new blog where we would love the people that we meet along the way to go and speak their truth, tell their stories and know that they are going to be heard and their voices in turn will be helping others to reveal their truth!
As we travel across the United States, we will be documenting the entire journey in one form or another, at which point when we return we will be creating a virtual classroom, where there will be on going dialogue, lectures and conversations about how we have all worked at building courage, change and compassion through our conversations, how we have unburied the past, looked at it, dealt with it and said goodbye to it and how we have embraced the present moment, because today is truly the most precious gift we have.
A new stop has been adding to our journey, New Ulm Youth Detention Center, in New Ulm Minnesota where I will be speaking to a group of young men and the staff there. I have been pondering and working in my mind the message that I want to relay to these young men, the stories that I hope would have the most impact, and I realize that I will need to tell Bill's story from start to present and how a childhood of violence, constant shame and addiction led him into a place of darkness and pain and how after years of searching, he has found peace and is now giving so much to so many! Bill is my ex-husband, he was the crazy,gorgeous, drunk, drug addict I fell for when I was 16 years old in Ogden Utah. To know both our histories is key to understa
nding this whole journey! And so tomorrow that story will begin.
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