My Week of Letting Go and Just Being- Fool Hollow Lake in Show Low, AZ

          I did not plan to come here, to Show Low that is.  In fact, I had never heard of it.  But, the Arizona Sate Park reservation lady said there were no sites available in or around Sedona, and she said, "I have a real good feeling about this place for you." I took it for 7 nights right away.  The drive to Show Low was slow going because my camper was in tow and my truck is not very powerful.  I averaged about 50-55 miles an hour and listened to a wonderful book by Marianne Williamson called, "A Woman's Worth". I was without phone service for about 4 hours. (Thank you Dad for showing me how to change a tire. I didn't have too, but boy was I happy I know how!)  The road was way off the beaten path after Grants, NM.  It was a two lane highway and the terrain changed constantly.

     After red cliffs, dunes, and one desert town in four hours, I suddenly found myself in the White Mountains.  I had no idea there were mountains here.  They are just foothills, but there are pine trees, a beautiful lake, and the small town of Show Low.      

     The park ranger was so very right.  She had a sixth sense because it was a perfect getaway for me to rest, meditate, pray, read, walk, fish, and truly "be".  I have burned fears in a campfire, thrown rocks into the lake, seen 3 goose families on Easter Day, watched a four foot bull snake slithering in the grass, and enjoyed just being quiet.  I even made my first Toni's Campfire Tacos last night.  I was hoping fish, but it ended up being turkey (bought).

     I have loved reading Women Who Run With the Wolves, and I even made a Wild Woman Spirit Doll out of clay and drift wood. 

     Easter was lovely.  I walked about two and a half hours around the lake with Teddy and just observed families fishing and stopped to meditate on nature.

  It is time for me to move on tomorrow, but I will enjoy thinking about this place as the place I started to let go of fears and doubts and just be.  That's what life is about right. There is a plan....we just have to listen and let it happen.