Joseph Campbell.

Ever notice how things are so interconnected? How you can be learning about one thing, or come across a word or idea...and then it begins to appear again and again in different contexts? Take that bliss coffee can that I got in the mail from Gillian yesterday. Bliss. One day earlier, on Sunday, Chris had gone to the library and rented the entire collection of Joseph Campbell interviews conducted by Bill Moyers (The Power of Myth). Here is a quotation from Campbell - and a theory that I believe in my heart to be so very true.

BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a
result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put
yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that
you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be
afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
--Joseph Campbell, from The Power of Myth, pp. 120

This idea can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be...it can be spiritual or metaphysical or simply embracing your talent and moving forward. One step at a time...with the faith that you are where you are supposed to be...doing what you are supposed to be doing. That idea of hidden hands. Of being guided along on a track that has "been there all the while." A matter of finding...

In our home right now, Chris is on a quest to find his bliss. Searching. In many ways I feel like I have found a huge part of mine...that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing...on the path that I am supposed to be living. Of course there are bumps along the way...but if you are living with the sense that everything is really ok no matter what...when you experience those rough roads you know in your heart that this is a part of your process, of your life.

So thanks again G, for reinforcing bliss. And God bless you Chris...as you search for yours.