Blogging as a way to healing...

This is the first blog I have written in a very long time. Life has been quite full. I see the need for this blog. For many others, including myself.
For Starters, I lost my Mom exactly 1 month ago today.
I feel as she is being reborn in some other space and time, so am I.
Left here on Earth to continue to guide my soul on its journey, in this life form as a human.
My mother was born in WWII. My family came to the USA after a brief place of refuge in Belgium. America, the dream.
The melting pot of ethnicity and culture... This is what I am. A melting pot.
It's taken 47 years to embrace all the good, bad and what is truly important to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
Fast forward to October 2012.
Spent a spontaneously healing day with my .... (we haven't figured out what would be the most eloquent way to say lover and best friend) . 
He has been a shining star of being in the moment.
Living in the past creates depression.. living in the future creates anxiety.... to be in the Present is truly healing.
I started my day by hugging a tree... it seemed to absorb my tears, as I am still very sad from losing my touchstone... my rock.... my Mom
...so I turn to my Earth Mother... the one that has taken such good care of me.
After a morning of Earthly errands, the day was mine...
Off to a castle overlooking the Connecticut River.
A vulture/condor swooped so closely as I walked towards the castle ... I knew it was sending me a message...

The Vulture is the symbol of death and rebirth, the mother symbol,
and represents purification.
For those with this totem,
you will be noticed more for what you do than how you appear.

Vulture or Condor
teaches us how to soar above our limitations.

How Nature and My Mother Continue to Heal my Soul.

I Love You Mom!