Dolphin Encounter

I just got back from Mexico and the highlight of my trip was not only my brother-in-law's/friend's wedding, but also my encounter with the dolphins. Two videos turned out pretty good, but it doesn't even cover half of what was going on with these mammal-fishies!

In the first video, ignore my dolphin-baby-talk and also the ladies next to me were doing plenty of it in Spanish...but you can hear the dolphin clicking and squeaking and talking to us! The dolphin hung out in this corner for a good hour or so!

In the second video, the dolphin does a unique call to his friends (and even a random dog shows up because he knows somethings up!) and they all swim by to greet me! I almost started to cry because it was so beautiful. After this, I decided to see if this experience was for me and moved slowly down the pier and noticed that they started to follow me. Dolphins love to play and I decided to race them to the other side of the pier and back. We did this around FOUR times! People were staring at me, as if I knew how to do this...but I just went with my instincts. This was simply amazing and was recognition to me of how far I've come on my spiritual journey through life.

I swear they are telepathic because they knew when it was time for me to go, three or four of them slowly swam by me in a group and I felt like they said "bye bye"! And then I didn't see much of them after that. How sweet! Wonder what it would be like if I brought my harp and played for them. Squeak!

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

 An angel playing a pretend prelude on a prelude harp with a prelude demeanor.

Halloween came and it went, and unfortunately, I didn't get to wear my costume to the adult party this year. So I decided to dress up for Halloween night and pass out candy. I even got a couple boys returning and asking my husband "Where is your daughter...you know, the angel? We didn't come for candy again, we just wanted to see her"

Haha! Kid stalkers!
Yeah, my poor hubs. Feels rather old-ish from that encounter.

I had a dream Wednesday night that I was in a waiting room at a hospital and it was filled with sick kids, kids with cancer, kids that were crying and in pain. I was observing them. I wasn't a harpist in my dream or providing therapy, and it broke my heart because I could not stand seeing them in pain.

Well, Thursday, I'm volunteering and setting up and looking for a chair (I am always looking for a chair now that I broke that little stool!) I grabbed a chair next to a family and the young Mother was holding her son, who did not have hair and was probably awaiting a procedure. He was fast asleep. He was probably 5 years old.

Anyway, he started to cry shortly after I started to play. I quickly remembered how we were taught to find the tone of the patient's cry or moan and match it. This helps to establish that "WE HEAR YOU!" and it is acknowledgment from us on their behalf that they are scared, in pain, or just wanting to be heard. I managed to find the tone (which was E minor) and played the basic chord, sometimes switching and harmonizing. They proceeded to carry the child past me and I kept playing those notes. He then went into the treatment room. The mother came out and I asked her if he was ok and she mentioned something about him falling asleep again...rather quickly.

I have no idea if my chords and tone-matching were working for him, but it was kind of strange with how that connected with my dream only the night before and also provided me an opportunity to practice my technique we learned at school.