This is my wish box with a few wishes inside. I have personally placed quite a few wishes in the little cubbies and when people come to my home I ask them to write their wish(es) to be placed in my box.

As you can see the box is not very populated, so today my blog is for a request. I ask you all to send me one, if not more, wishes. These wishes do not have to be for me or about me whatsoever. The wish can be for yourself, a friend, a loved one, the world, any intention you wish to have released into the world. Also, if you have had a wish placed in the box before, you can add more! My goal is to fill the box in a week, so I need your help.

Now, normally I would not know what your wish is since all the wishes placed before were done so without me ever seeing them. However, since with this media there is not really a way for us to do this, I will know your wish. That being said, you can reply here with your wish, if you don't mind it being public, or you can reply to me privately via e-mail or facebook with your wish(es). If you prefer a particular color of paper for your wish, please state that as well. There is no limit and there is for the most part no wish that will be denied (mean/hateful wishes will not be honored)..

Since I am trying to fill the box in a week, please feel free to share my blog and my request to your friends and family. If I can get the wish box filled within a week, I will have a ceremonial release of the wishes into the universe in which the box and all the enclosed wishes will be burned.

I look forward to filling my box and to next weeks ceremony!

I know I am getting tired of hearing all the prep work and am ready to get down to business and really blog about something! So, today I give you something.

The final weeks of life as I know it are approaching. After the furniture I am keeping was moved to storage last weekend, I had a brief moment (2 or 3 minutes max) in which I had a mini release of emotion through tears. As I sat in  the middle of the mostly empty room and cried for those few minutes I let go of my life I have become accustomed to and the door opened fully to my new way of living and in that exact moment my tears became giggles and my life was renewed. Since that moment last weekend I have felt like a child again. Everything around me seems new. I am open to experiencing the things that have become the everyday routine as if seeing and doing them for the first time and the wonder of it all is delightful. The power of wonderment and discovery are mine for the taking. 

So too, this process happened at work this week as I am training my replacement. I thought perhaps I might have problems letting go of my work, but with this renewed energy I have been finding it quite easy to hand it all over.

And so with the letting go of my possessions and my position at work, I find myself returning to P'u, the uncarved block. No longer defined by the things I own and my career, I have returned to P'u with all the potential to be anything and everything. With this process I have found the fountain of youth and it cannot be bottled nor sold in any fashion; in fact, it can only be achieved through letting go of the things that define your existence.  Therefore, the secret to the fountain of youth my friends is not in what you have but in what you don't have.