Homecoming Gathering 2018 Discussion Thread

[Plenum]

so awesome.

Will be glad to meet you after all these years xise

[Jade]

I get on a plane in 19 days?! And xise will be there?! And all the other beautiful faces I get to see again?! It's happening everyone. Can't wait!

[Terpene_Tony396]

Just wanted to say hello, I will be attending this year's event and I wanted to e-Introduce myself. I really looking forward to meeting everyone in a few weeks.

[ada]

I wish to some day to attend and meet everyone as well. So very exciting.

[Plenum]

awesome stuff Tony.

Always pumped to meet first time attendees

For me - it's my 5th one.  Each year has been absolutely unique because of the different mix of folks that come.

Thanks for adding your color to this year's one

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Would love to meet you too blossom.  You have such compassionate energies    

[Eddie]

T - 244 hours......

[Jade]

Weather looks warm, but when I looked a couple of days ago it said 90s, so this is a bit better. Probably just about anything could beat the weather from last year!! At least it doesn't look like we have any looming hurricanes or tropical storms in the gulf that could make their way up.

[PIF]

I think it will change a lot during upcoming days Jade Somehow I think it will be super nice weather after all for the weekend. But you are right after previous year looks like the weather will be not an issue. Few rain showers might actually even cool a little bit as we will be full of the warm energy of love Looking forward to meeting everybody

Weather looks warm, but when I looked a couple of days ago it said 90s, so this is a bit better. Probably just about anything could beat the weather from last year!! At least it doesn't look like we have any looming hurricanes or tropical storms in the gulf that could make their way up.

[Plenum]

Yep - that rain was crazy last year!

See you soon Mr V  

[Eddie]

For what it's worth, we've had an extremely rainy summer in KY this year.

[Bliss]

Hello everyone! I’m so excited to be coming to my first homecoming! As a newbie I’m also somewhat nervous. Can’t wait to get to know as many of you as I can.

[Plenum]

oh - hey there Bliss!

It can definitely be a bit nervous meeting such a large group of people - for the very first time!

There's going to be 40 of us on the Friday at 5pm.  Well - a few folks don't arrive till the Saturday morning, but close to 40

New faces, new names, from all parts of the country (and even international guests like myself!)

But you settle in pretty quickly.  One of my favourite parts of the weekend is the round-robin introductions, where everyone shares a little part of their story.  

It's very memorable.

It's all happening *very* soon!!

[rva_jeremy]

Hey Bliss, can’t wait to meet you! Anybody coming for the first time, please find me if I don’t find you.

[Eddie]

On my way.  I have a bit o' shoppin' to do on the way....ETA at Camelot is 4PM.

[rva_jeremy]

We'll see you then, Eddie! A bunch of us are already here chillin.

[Patrick]

 
I am thinking of you all and wish you a great time !
     
 

[Plenum]

On board the first of 3 flights to get back home.

A good homecoming.

Hello love cast! Hello pif!

Thanks for a good time.

G

[xise]

Homecoming 2018 for me: mind = blown.

[Jade]

Homecoming was awesome. I hope I can type something up to do it some justice. Won't be tonight, I've had less than 30 hours of sleep in the past week. Best homecoming ever. (as they all are!)

[ada]

Waiting for homecoming photos like

[Jade]

I was so bad at taking pictures this year. I really was in the moment the whole time I feel like. Looking back it seems like one night's dream. When Austin was taking me (and plenum!) to the airport, I kept thinking about events that had happened the week before, and I wanted to say, "yesterday". I'm still in a dreamy weird state and just trying to be relaxed and enjoy being at home.

This was my third Homecoming. Something was really magical this year. Maybe because I've bonded so deeply with certain souls who I've now seen more than once. But I watched first-timers have profound transformations as well. I thought originally I would be able to write a full page here, but as usual, it's impossible to feel like words do it justice. The squaring effect is real, my friends. And when you have 40 open hearts who have awareness of the Creator - well, truly magical things happen. Magical fruits just hang from the trees, ripe and ready for eating.

Luckily dear PIF spent a goodly portion of time filming clips of the whole event, and interviewing people, and intends to make a compilation video hopefully capturing a sliver of the event. When that is complete, I am sure it will make its way here. I definitely can't wait to see it!!

[Plenum]

this is not from Homecoming itself, but from my Homecoming trip.

It was on the Thursday.  Day before Homecoming started.

Visited Cave Hill cemetary, where Muhammad Ali is buried.

The first 3 words struck me like a thunderbolt.



I later found out that he first used the above quote in 1978 originally!

STO.

G

ps, a bunch of other "service to others" quotes

https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/service_to_others

[Jade]

One month down, 11 to go. Hope the next 11 go by as quickly as this past one has. I'm honestly still in recovery mode - Homecoming hangover hit me hard this year.

I acquired a few photos, here are the ones I feel I can share!

Group photo (I just want to smoosh and kiss every face here!!):


Me giving my presentation: