Amorous Alsatian Adventures, September-October 2016
After returning to the Alsace, I was staying with dear friends Anne & Guy. One day Anne was talking with a friend of hers and told her an American friend was visiting. Of course it was Christine she was talking to. Anne said enough about me that Christine said she wanted to meet me. Later when Anne told me of this, I asked if she meant a casual meeting or for more, to which Anne told me Christine was interested in exploring the possibility of relationship with me. When I asked for more information, Anne told me a little about Christine. My response was I'd be happy to meet her because she sounded like a nice person, but to forget the idea of relationship because not only does she not fly anything, more importantly she is a doctor with her own practice AND she has children, one of them still living at home! None of that was included in the picture I had of my future. Anne smiled a gentle but slightly mischievous smile and said, "Never say never!"
Christine was invited to join us for lunch later that week. During lunch, there was nothing special taking place between Christine and me, just casual chit-chat. Then we went for a walk without the others. The energy changed completely, as did our feelings. Something happened that neither of us can put our finger on, other than to describe it in the traditional terms that Cupid's arrows hit their mark and did their job. The way I felt it was as if Christine jumped into the void and then beckoned me to join her, which I blissfully did, without a thought.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, Christine couldn't sleep during the night before we met. She's very intuitive and knew that life was about to change drastically. She felt the change coming and knew in advance that I was the partner she had dreamed up. Her sense was of pieces of a puzzle coming together one by one and, even without knowing anything about me, she knew I was the final piece.
My life changed immediately and immeasurably at that moment. Any details I might have thought were important vanished. All of a sudden I awoke as if in a dream, instantly I was an integral part of a family in France. The change was instant, but the curious thing is everything fits me perfectly. Or is it that I fit the details?
On the subject of dreams, during our first night together I had an amazing dream in which I was fully lucid, aware that I was dreaming. In the dream, I dreamed that Christine and I were dreaming the same dream. I was also lucid in that dream! I awoke with the clear feeling or knowing that what Christine and I are doing is what I experienced in the dream: dreaming the same dream.
Friends have asked me for information about Christine. In addition to saying she is playful, energetic, physically active, imaginative adventurous, sincere and a host of other wonderful attributes, the simple standard fare includes that she is 55 years old (I am 60), she is a dermatologist by profession and she has three children (one still at home). Home is in the eastern part of France, in Ribeauvillé, one of the cutest little villages nestled in the vineyards of the AIsace.
It's all incredibly amazing to me. All I can do is take it moment by moment, enjoy it all, wonder what's next, but know it's forever. The bottom line is we fit together and complement each other perfectly.
Read MoreChristine was invited to join us for lunch later that week. During lunch, there was nothing special taking place between Christine and me, just casual chit-chat. Then we went for a walk without the others. The energy changed completely, as did our feelings. Something happened that neither of us can put our finger on, other than to describe it in the traditional terms that Cupid's arrows hit their mark and did their job. The way I felt it was as if Christine jumped into the void and then beckoned me to join her, which I blissfully did, without a thought.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, Christine couldn't sleep during the night before we met. She's very intuitive and knew that life was about to change drastically. She felt the change coming and knew in advance that I was the partner she had dreamed up. Her sense was of pieces of a puzzle coming together one by one and, even without knowing anything about me, she knew I was the final piece.
My life changed immediately and immeasurably at that moment. Any details I might have thought were important vanished. All of a sudden I awoke as if in a dream, instantly I was an integral part of a family in France. The change was instant, but the curious thing is everything fits me perfectly. Or is it that I fit the details?
On the subject of dreams, during our first night together I had an amazing dream in which I was fully lucid, aware that I was dreaming. In the dream, I dreamed that Christine and I were dreaming the same dream. I was also lucid in that dream! I awoke with the clear feeling or knowing that what Christine and I are doing is what I experienced in the dream: dreaming the same dream.
Friends have asked me for information about Christine. In addition to saying she is playful, energetic, physically active, imaginative adventurous, sincere and a host of other wonderful attributes, the simple standard fare includes that she is 55 years old (I am 60), she is a dermatologist by profession and she has three children (one still at home). Home is in the eastern part of France, in Ribeauvillé, one of the cutest little villages nestled in the vineyards of the AIsace.
It's all incredibly amazing to me. All I can do is take it moment by moment, enjoy it all, wonder what's next, but know it's forever. The bottom line is we fit together and complement each other perfectly.
Apples are taken to a local press where they are washed, pressed and the juice is flash pasteurized and bottled. Forty gallons of juice took thirty minutes.
