Morning dear ones! Although, at this time, many of you will be sleeping still. I am having a big day of missing you. Ok, I will be honest, I have been having a week of missing you people! Leaving Minneapolis this time was incredibly hard. All I wanted to do was to magically extrapolate Mike and Melissa from the windy, grey island and just be home. However, the next best thing is slowly unfolding. Apparently UoM were impressed and, as Donald would say, charmed and they want to make me an offer. However, before the main research investigator can do so, he needs the support from the University for my visiting scholar's visa (and for M&m to get derivative visas). Fingers crossed, this should not be a problem (especially as it is a J visa, which does not committ them to anything) and I should have an answer in a week or two. I feel like I am sitting on hot coals at the moment!

We also had another house viewing last Sunday, before I even came back, and they liked Sarah, our house, and might put an offer next week. So, more hot coals! Exciting and scary all at the same time. That seems to be a bit of a theme with me at the moment. I am trying to do this trust and surrender thing as initiation gets closer but I am not sure I am very good at it. Nevertheless, there doesn't seem to be much of a choice apart from enjoying the ride. Hence my days are spent either in soul stillness, clarity and beaming light or in tears, madness and confusion, often at the same time. Lovely. Apparently, according to my rune reading for this year, this is the month to embrace paradox for me. Yay! Thankfully both my daughter and knitting keep me on the border of sanity on a daily basis. Really, I look at myself and wonder what happened over the past four years or so, then I remember, oh yeah, I met Freya (and Donald!) and it all makes more sense, or at least as much sense as our crazy, witchy world can make!

Alrighty then, I should probably stop blabbering on this blog and go do something constructive with my day, like reply to the forty emails still sitting in my inbox since wintercamp... Or maybe I will just go have a bath. I am becoming extremely self-indulgent this year! And that is on top of getting crazier.... Ok, who thought initiation was a good idea. Oh shit, that would be me and, like I say to my partners, no sympathy for the self-inflicted pain! 

Love, light and sanity to you all on this wonderful first Sunday in March, when daffodils are staring to bloom here

Alessandra xxx 

p .s. and here is a picture of my honeybee!