I simply can’t be more honest with you when I say that Lou and I really didn’t know where we were going to go on the morning we left Jackie and Henry’s house.
We just knew we had to leave Utah and head west.
It might seem nuts, but when you’re a professional imposer, you often take off on a journey with no plan, and somehow, you figure things out on the fly! So as we were reaching the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Lou called our close friend, Lynn. She and her partner, Margaret, had a meditation retreat in Ojai, California, and when we still lived in Orange County, we used to escape to this retreat for a few nights of quiet every now and then.
We met Lynn back when Lou (and I guess I) worked for Mr. Kimchi. She was a distributor of the stem cell serums, and seriously one of the best things that came out of working for that company! I instantly loved Lynn the very first time I met her. She was honest, kind, and generous — even in how she worried about taking up too much of my time. She and Lou hit it off amazingly well right from the start, too, and over time, Lynn became family to us.
So when Lou explained to Lynn that we needed a place to stay while we figured out a plan, she and Margaret welcomed us with open arms. They had an available cottage on their property that we could stay in for as long as we needed. It was the cottage that Lynn always saved for us when we used to come up on the weekends, and it had the most comfortable bed on the planet in the master bedroom. When Lou got off the phone with Lynn, I remember crying with relief.
We had a destination…
I can’t even add up the number of lessons I’ve learned during The Imposition Tour, but you already know the one that has been the most profound for me: Home is wherever you are loved.
It’s not where your favorite furnishings are on display, or where the sheets are perfectly ironed, and the towels are thick and smell like a summer field… Those things don’t really matter. But if you build your greatest sense of home in your relationships, they will hold you together in the good times and the bad.
