Less than a year after Chris died, I consulted a psychic. She was clear. “You have to write a book about your travels on the road, but don’t worry. Spirit will help you.”
At that time, I was busy living my life, walking through the realms of grief, surveying the devastation of a life shattered by Chris’s swift departure, and taking slow yet steady steps toward building a new life. I was not ready to put my hand to the page. I was still living my book on the stage of life.
The following year, I moved to a little town in Western Massachusetts. I joined a memoir class, and one day, I wrote what would become the first chapter. At that moment, in a flash of inspiration, I resolved to present a new chapter to my fellow writers every week. Miraculously, I kept to my commitment, sometimes writing into the small hours of the night.
What emerged was an intimate and adventurous love story recounting my life with my beloved soulmate Chris and our seven years of sacred travel around the world. Letting go of home, family, jobs, and all that was familiar, we learned to trust each other, trust Spirit, and discover that home was not a place but a state of being. We were naive adventurers guided by Spirit, helped by loving friends and even strangers.
Our travels took us to a Native American Sundance, the Rocky Mountains’ majestic beauty, the Indigo kids in Kauai’s jungles, India, Peru, the Camino de Santiago, and Egypt. We met remarkable teachers, including Ram Dass, the Dalai Lama, and Sai Baba, and experienced the beauty of mountains, oceans, rivers, forests, and deserts.
Our time of bliss was brief; after seven years on the road, Chris died suddenly. This is my story of facing the realities of life and death with the tools that Chris and I had learned on our path of surrender.
Awakening is not about dancing only in the light. It is the practice of celebrating life as it is, the light and the dark, the easy and the difficult. In the darkest night, the path teaches me over and over that we are all connected and one with Source.
Life of Kai is my story of love and death, healing, and the living of an erotic and spiritually embodied life. I hope you will enjoy reading it when it is published in October.