Colour Ideas

Russia is so easily thought of as red yet there remains a question: why then is it’s international dialling code +7?  B7 is the Yellow / Green combination in Equilibrium and it shakes to an olive colour – a very different energy to red.

Something Red: the People

There are so many red features to Russia, especially in the Soviet times. On the surface we notice the red flags, red stars, and the communist ideals of comradeship, collaboration, one big caring family where all contribute and all benefit.

A potent symbol of Russia: the red star

Something Olive: Samorodok

This word describes someone, usually a creative type such as an artist or poet, who makes their own success in life through a great talent. This talent in turn has to be valuable to and enrich the society around them. Literally samorodok means a large nugget of gold. However it also has some resonance with B7 – the yellow / green - because of the theme of finding your way – being true to the potential of your life. You would think samorodok would be encouraged in a communist society …

Red: Centre of Gravity

Red is the colour of matter, and density of matter creates a gravitational pull. Russia, and previously the Soviet Union, are vast territories, full of energetic, forceful and disparate peoples. To hold such an entity together requires huge force, hence the tendency in Russia to have a strong centralising force, often with a man of power at the centre.

One example of the centralising force in Russia is the Russian railway system. All train tickets, no matter where they are issued, are printed showing Moscow time. If I were to board a train in central Siberia at midday the ticket will show the departure time as 07.00 – and even the clock on the station platform will show 07.00. Yet all around the city people will be sitting down to lunch. The power of the Russian centre!

This gravitational force also manifests in society. People have to hold together - the vastness of the wilderness and the harshness of the winters requires people to come together to survive. Nature is powerful and individuals are small in the face of it. Staying together can be more important than personal freedom.

Olive: Maslenitsa

With the end of Russian winter there is another 7.  Maslenitsa is a 7 day event leading to (if you are a christian) a 7 week fast up to Easter. In secular Soviet times it became a celebration of the end of winter and the start of spring. 7 days and 7 weeks – think B7. Moreover B7 is itself a combination very resonant of Springtime. The sun returns and the earth is green again, yellow flowers dance in the spring sunshine.  Even B7’s place in the sequence speaks of spring. It is preceded by B6 the Red / Red which indicates that energy is buried in the earth. With B7 life springs forth from the earth again.

Red within Olive

As Maslenitsa approaches its climax men engage in public “play” fights, it seems to me an echo of males competing for dominance at the start of the mating season. Physical strength and power - red - is important to the Russians even if it is a game. How easy can it be to break free and live your own way when fighting is a rite of passage to the new life?

Men fighting during Maslanitsa

The truth of this can be seen in Russia’s recent history. It seems that with the collapse of the red centralising power of the communist system in the early 1990s there was a heady burst of olive possibilities, for a while there seemed to be no borders and yellow green possibilites for growth in many directions seemed possible. And yet, within this time there developed a Maslenitsa - type fight as the newly emerging powerful, oligarchs, politicians and others, engaged in a red struggle to be top dog in a new hierarchy.

Thus even in the very midst of the olive opportunity the red remained a determining force in Russia. Now the olive time seems to have passed - a new power structure is established and red has been reborn at the heart of Russia. The centralising force is strong once more.

“Shtobi ne bilo vainy”

Yet the olive dream remains. There is a Russian toast. Shtobi ne bilo vainy It may be translated as “May the war never happen.” It expresses the wish of people to live free from struggle. To be free to live their own way. Freedom from war is an important condition for samorodok to appear and flourish.

Both Red and Olive?

Russia is a country in which there are two poles of colour; red and olive. Red is the necessity of the past and the refuge of the present, yet olive continues to offer the dream of a future potential. In theory red can nourish olive, fuel its growth. To honour and integrate these two forces, find a way for them to work in harmony, nourish each other could be the great work of the Russian people.

There is a new government in Japan. A party that did not exist two years ago has swept to power. There is a very interesting interpretation to be taken from the colour and shape of the symbol that has been chosen by the Minshu political party. It is fitting with their promise to the Japanese people. A message of change and new beginning.

The two red circles of the Minshu symbol

The symbol shows two red circles meeting on a white background. The red circle is an echo of the sun on the Japanese flag – and thus associates the Minshu party with Japanese identity. However the presence of the second red circle indicates something new is happening. We should pay attention. Something new is being added to the traditional situation.

Look more closely and you will see the lower circle has a shaky edge. Why? What can this mean? The lower circle seems to be more energetic, the shaky edge seems to express movement, as if this second circle is vibrating with some kind of energy. This second circle is alive. The message is the Minshu party is vibrating with energy, an energy they can bring to Japan.

Even in England the Japanese election result was treated as big news. It was described as a political earthquake. We were told that for 50 years Japan had had only one party in government, and the result was that everything had become very fixed: politics, big corporations, the bureaucracy, nothing could move anymore in this power structure. This election result has broken an important part of this fixed power structure, something new can now grow. A shaking energy has been brought to what used to be very solid. The symbol with its vibrating red circle hovering over the traditional fixed red sun perfectly expresses this new (red) awakening energy.

There is more though. See the white space where the two circles overlap. As the energised red begins to overshadow the original circle a white process happens. White is clearing, cleansing - like a blank page, white offers a fresh start for a new story. As the Minshu party move to the centre of the Japanese picture, more and more of the original red sun will be bathed in white. There will be a clearing from which a new start may be made. This is what the Minshu party and this election result offers. A fresh start from which Japan can emerge reenergised. This seems to be what so many people hope for.

Colour, shape and resonance offer insight into the messages of the symbols around us. They allow us deeper understanding of the messages offered to us. Look around and enjoy.

In 1273 December 6th Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest Christian philosophers of all time, had his enlightenment moment. Sitting at mass that December morning, he experienced something so profound that it changed for ever how he felt about all that he had done before. And he had done a lot. Recognised by his teachers as a genius while still a young student he was assigned staff who were to follow him around and write down his words. By 1273 this had amounted to almost 8.5 million words through which he had laid the foundation for the Christian church to emerge from the superstition of the Dark Ages into the dawning light of the Age of Reason.

“Words are as straw”

However, following this enlightenment moment, he was to say that all (his) “words were as straw”. Presumably he meant that the direct spiritual experience went so far beyond that which words could contain that words became almost valueless. From then on till his death a couple of years later he scarcely wrote another word.

The Butterfly Moment

Why do I mention this? Because this happened in 1273 and B73 in the Equilibrium sequence is called Chang Tsu. He was a Chinese philosopher who is also famous for an enlightenment moment. Walking along the riverbank one day he saw a butterfly flutter by. In this moment he had some out of the body synchronicity moment. He famously remarked he did not know if he was a man seeing a butterfly or a butterfly looking down on a man.

A step into soul consciousness

The butterfly can symbolise the aura. Starting as an earthbound caterpillar, it goes through a process of transformation that results in it unfurling brightly coloured wings and flying up in the sunlight. In a similar way materialistic man can enter a process of spiritual transformation whereby his primary identification moves from the physical body to the light body. At this point man becomes like a butterfly fluttering by.

What happened to the titles of the past? Madam and Sir, Mister and Mrs etc. As we enter deeper into the turquoise age these words become increasingly rare in daily exchanges. How will we address each other in the future? I believe their replacements are already here, just emerging in a form we have yet to recognise: the Avatar.

This thinking began last week. A friend was telling me that Russians have some uncertainty these days in how to address each other. In Tsarist days the word was “Gaspardin” – the English equivalent would be something like “Sir”. In Soviet times the title was “Tavaresh” – (not Comrade as I always imagined - but something of similar meaning). Since the end of the Soviet system a new title has yet to emerge. They neither wish to continue the Soviet title, nor return to the Tsarist past. “Young man” and “girl” are two forms of address that are used but are often inappropriate.

In the UK we have a similar situation. When an insurance assessor visited my house recently, I did not know whether to address him as “Mister …”- (too formal) , or by his first name (too informal). In the end I simply did not address him by name at all.

So what has this to do with turquoise? First of all I have understood that titles require at least some social structure if not a social hierarchy. Thus in the USA – a country that offered a land of opportunity for all including the chance to be free of the social hierarchies of the Old World of Europe - names are far more important. In the USA for example, your waiter will introduce himself by name before serving you. The Aquarian Age is all about the individual – and to have titles would bury this. The all important question for turquoise is “Who am I?” Thus In the Aquarian Age our name – our most individual identity - is more important than any title.

So will there be a new title appearing? I think it is already happening – but in an entirely new form. The social medium of the future is the internet, and in this virtual world, the technology to create virtual representations of our self is well under way – from the choice to create our own user name, to the use of an image that represents something of us, to a full blown avatar able to move and express itself with its own style. For some the avatar will be their mask, for others their dream, and for a few their truth. In any case though, it will always be the unique presentation of our self to the world.

Titles are dead, long live the avatar.

PS And funnily enough – as I do a word count on finishing – I find this piece totals 462 words. That is a 4 - Yellow / Gold – the colour for the self, and 62 - Maha Chohan – the Pale Turquoise / Pale Turquoise which is the colour energy that is driving this change!

I read the other day that The Statue of Liberty has 171 steps. Naturally my mind turned to Aura-Soma bottles. The 17 and the 1 stood out. That is The Star and The Magician in the Tarot Aura-Soma connection. The Statue of Liberty is a US icon and the original gateway for all immigrants in to this new world. I was therefore interested to see if the Equilibrium bottles fitted the USA in some way.

B1 and the American Dream

I have long connected B1 with the USA since the International Dialling Code for the States is + 1 and the Blue/Rescue seems very fitting with US values. I consider “the American Dream” to be a defining US value, and the B1 with its rescue for blue providses the energy to declare (throat chakra) your dream and make it a reality. This is the power of The Magician.

B17 and Freedom

The Star B17 precedes the 1 (171) in this way of looking. The Star also supports the idea of “Live your truth anf follow your dream”. The path of The Star is on the male side of the Tree of Life, the side which that favours flow and freedom, the side connected to the energy of the Father. Again these are all very key themes in the US psyche: The Founding Fathers, and the Bill of Rights that guarantees freedoms. The Star resonates with the freedom to travel (flow) West (through the Wild West - again freedom) and find your fortune.

Conclusion …

All in all, the 171 steps of the Statue of Liberty, taken as the 17 and the 1, seem to resonate very strongly with the values and themes of the USA.

And still there is an alternative view of the 171. A view ultimately more consistent with numerology practice. And as i write now a view that is a perfect complement to the above view. Read about it in the next blog coming very soon …

This is my second time in Hiroshima.  I was deeply touched on my first visit by the Peace Museum that commemorates the detonation of the world’s first atom bomb. The event is presented in such a detached, balanced and human way; it is a profound experience to travel through the build up and aftermath of that event.

Peace Museum and Peace Fountain at foot of Peace Park

This visit I find myself exploring the Peace Park that surrounds the Peace Museum. My Aura-Soma organiser here, Hiromi Ishida, told me she thought there was a chakra layout in the Park. Early last Sunday morning I got the chance to explore it for myself.

I started at the northern end of the park. It is on the top part of an island in the river. The bridge that accesses this northern tip of the island is the very bridge that was the precise target for the atom bomb dropped out of a clear blue sky at 8.15 on 6th August 1945. The bomb exploded 500m above ground level. As one enters the park from this direction one immediately meets a twisted metal tower of three steel girders. It is a clock tower. The clock, spherical like a ball, sits suspended high above the ground.

Just across the path, a little further on, is the Peace Bell. A huge bell, that any passer by may sound, it has the map of the world etched into its metal, along with I presume words of peace. When the bell is struck the world image is vibrated with the intention of peace. The sound of the bell, which carries the intention of peace, then expands this message into the wider world.

Peace Bell, Hiroshima

Slightly further on again and the next monument one finds is the Child Peace monument dedicated to the children who died either in the blast or as a consequence of it in the months and years that followed. Two children grace the outside of the structure, as if swirling up to heaven, at the top is a girl who lifts a golden crane which is entrusted with dreams for a peaceful future.

Child Peace monument

I am writing this part of the text here in the top section of the park just a few days later. It is peaceful here, trees shade the path and there are many birds around. Behind me is a mound where the ashes of so many of the dead were brought and buried in the months that followed the blast.

Continuing past the Children’s Peace monument, one immediately has to cross a small road that cuts across the island. It marks a divide and thus a step into a new section of the park.

Clock Tower at the 8th chakra

Where are the chakras?

As I had been walking through the park that Sunday morning I had been asking myself where are the chakras to be found in this park? The spherical clock on the twisted tower at the head of the island, suspended above the earth (just as the bomb itself had been above Hiroshima that fateful day) had immediately suggested the 8th chakra. This chakra sits above the physical body, it is purely energetic, and in the Aura–Soma system corresponds to the colour magenta. Magenta is also the colour of Pluto, discovered in the 30s at the dawn of the atomic age and thus associated with atomic force.

The Peace Bell was surely to do with the 6th chakra. In Aura-Soma this chakra is connected to the master of sound Lady Nada, and the bell was all about using sound. Moreover the global quality of the bell with its map of the world suggested something that holds a higher view, and this the 6th chakra does.

I was not so sure about the location of the 7th though nothing stood out. I now think it is the base of the clock tower. These two, the 7th and 8th chakras, are sited together – one over the other. So was then the child monument the 5th chakra – it didn’t feel that it was so …

Another world

I looked over the road to see the rest of the park laid out before me. It was much more open – there were no more shady trees, but immediately in front of me there was a striking feature. A long rectangular basin; split in two sections. The top half (from which I was approaching) is a dry concrete slope angling down to the mid line where a wall is constructed. Beyond the wall, filling the bottom half of the basin, is a stretch of flat, peaceful water. Between the two, atop the wall, is a large concrete slab in two parts, at its centre burns an eternal flame.

Fire and water at 5th chakra

It was not easy to feel comfortable here - the water finishing with fire and after just dry concrete. As I walked down beside this pool, thinking about chakras it hit me: this was Daath (the Abyss in the Tree of Life), this was the path of the High Priestess in the Tarot, associated with the Blue/Blue bottle, B2, in Aura-Soma. This was the throat chakra!

High Priestess at 5th chakra

The long rectangular shape of the structure echoes the High Priestess sitting between the two pillars of the Tree. Half way along this path in the Tree of Life – at the mid line - everything changes. To cross Daath, the abyss, one has to disappear. It is the path to oneness with spirit, and to become one with spirit we have to let go of our self, our separate self: we have to disappear!

Just beyond, as one travels up the chakras, over the road that I had just crossed, is the Child Monument dedicated to those who disappeared. The whole top section of the park is the spirit world! In Hiroshima, in an instant, thousands of souls passed together into the spirit world. Of course the park would have a disproportionately large spirit section - it is inherent in the nature of what happened here: a mass opening to the spirit world. In Aura-Soma B0 Royal Blue / Deep Magenta is called the Spiritual Rescue. This top part of the park does not emphasise violet – the crown chakra – instead it is all about Magenta and Royal Blue. The Spiritual Rescue!

The map shows the layout of the Peace Park. Note the map image is upside down! The allows the journey i describe to start at the top of the image and travel down, north to south. The relative size of the spiritual area can easily be seen. The small road is in grey about one third of the way down from the top.

Peace Park map

Returning to the pool, at the throat chakra itself, we find an eternal flame. Silently it declares “Fire.” A mute testament to what happened here: Fire was unleashed, and in the symbolism of the Tree of Life “fire” is not physical: it is spiritual. The fire that was unleashed here was not material in nature - it was atomic, energetic, spiritual.

Flame at Daath

The lower chakras

The next chakra is easy to spot now. At the far end of the water is a tomb dedicated to all those who were killed by the bomb. It is the heart chakra of the park. It is a place of reverence where the living come to remember and honour the dead.  A truly sombre energy for a heart chakra, I took a photo and regretted it as a girl stepped up to bow and pray before the tomb, reminding me of the real meaning this spot has in people’s hearts here. Nevertheless now i include it here, reverently.

Tomb at 4th chakra

As I travel down from the heart chakra, next is a large open space: the broad concrete path leads between two large grass lawns – yellow and desolate at this time of year - winter’s end. Ahead of me further down the path the Peace Museum dominates. It is a large concrete structure which straddles the path of this chakra journey.

Looking to Museum across yellow desolation

The large gallery of the museum which houses the permanent exhibition here is actually raised above the ground. It forms a huge bridge that people can walk underneath. This building is surely sited on the orange chakra of the Peace Park. Orange is associated with shock, and what happened here in Hiroshima in 1945 was such a shock to process, such an event to come to terms with and release. The museum does this work dispassionately, as I said at the start of the article its calmness is profound. There is no emotionalism to cloud the waters here, facts are presented simply, blame is shared. (Hiroshima is where the Japanese bombers made their practice runs before Pearl Harbour – the war certainly came home to its beginning here!)

What other way could there be to work towards releasing shock than this? The fact that the hall is above the ground (echoing in a way the clock tower at the 8th chakra) reminds me of the huge difficulty to bring this shock to earth, to finally bury the past.

The large yellow space of the third chakra so desolate above it seems fitting too. The yellow space – our individuality – where the “I” lives – is simply empty here, void of life: no people left. The huge shock and the devastation to the personal is reflected in the sparseness of this part of the park. The green chakra above it is also severely affected, death is at its centre where ordinarily life would be enshrined here. Even the blue level is difficult, water and fire, elements that will not mix, meet. Only when crossing the road do we come to life: trees, birds, the Peace Bell, the spiritual world here full, the world into which all those yellow selfs entered.

(By the way I took a lunch break here and discovered that my watch had stopped during the writing of this article. The time was 2.56.36. …  look at the bottle positions on the Tree of Life and it will show something very interesting!)

Beyond the Museum travelling yet further down, now nearing the southern end of the park and there is a large fountain. To my mind this is again part of the second chakra. Water is the element associated with the second chakra. This large fountain brings a great positive energy for life which supports the processing of the shock that the museum is dealing with.

Fountain at 2nd chakra

Beyond the fountain remains one more monument, It is perhaps the most moving of all. A woman is bowed down desperately trying to protect her baby and child. Unable to do so, she is broken, her baby is beneath her, her older child tries to climb on her back, all she can do is reach one hand back to help him. Is this the red chakra? I was thinking so … I still do. It is a very touching image. In the face of an atomic blast human life, red, is powerless.

Mother and children: 1st chakra

Yet there remains one more step. Though I had come to the end of the park, as I looked across the large road now in front of me, I saw 10 pillars. 10 is the number of the bottom sphere in the Tree of Life. The sphere of Malkuth, the physical, material world: the red chakra. I crossed the road and realised that these were not pillars, they were arch-like gates that could be walked through. Ten gates of peace – each covered with the word “peace” written in a variety of languages. These gates complete the Peace Park, they are the conclusion of the whole.

Peace Gates

From Red to Magenta, from the 1st to the 8th chakra, the structures and layout of the Peace Park seem to echo perfectly the intention, story and process of the Peace Park. A hidden pattern of energy that supports the layout and objects at each stage of the park. Such patterns can also be found in churches, towns and the land itself. You can find more about this in future publications of mine. I am compiling a book on travels with Aura-Soma, finding colour and its resonances in the places I visit.

Footnote

The dialling code for Hiroshima is 082. B82 is the Green/Orange combination. This is the return journey of the Emperor bottle B4 the Yellow/Gold combination. It seems very fitting that this would represent Hiroshima.

Number wise 82 is all about flexibility. The 2 has to bow, say yes, the blue energy, the 8 is about harmony (and also facing death since the name of the bottle is Anubis!). 82 is about bowing to the greater thing and finding a way to flow with it. That is what the people of Hiroshima have had to do. And the Green Orange is an expansion from the Yellow/Gold which is the area so empty and desolate in the park. The green and orange areas of the park both have significant features – the yellow area does not.

I have found Hiroshima to be one of the friendliest cities in Japan – and I like all Japanese cities – but here the people are particularly soft and friendly. Perhaps they have learnt to expand beyond the normal limits of ego and open to the world around them. It is a tremendous privilege to be sharing Aura-Soma here in a place on the planet where such a significant event has happened, and where the response to that event has been so profoundly positive. As they say in Japanese – “kansha” (gratitude).

Osaka is Japan’s second largest city. Its telephone code is 06. As you get deeper into Aura-Soma, numbers become more significant - they indicate colour combinations. 06 is the number of the double red combination in the Equilibrium range. Red is the energy of the base chakra, the energy of mother earth, and also that of the female energy. It empowers all women.

While sitting outside an Osaka cafe one evening, casually watching the traffic passing by, a growing awareness of something surreal began to impress itself upon me. Many of the passing bicycles were being pedalled by men, but above and behind the man would be a woman standing up over the rear wheel. These women seemed like charioteers. Proud and commanding, as they sighted their path ahead, travelling effortlessly through space while the man beneath them worked hard.

I felt as if I were in another world, a civilisation of women warriors, a kind of mythic culture of dragons where the the female earth energy was in the ascendant, surreally interposed in this 21st century modern city scene.

From a telephone code that seems only chance, to a colour - Red - and to an expression of that red energy on the streets of the city. The dragon earth energy is strong in Osaka and it is the women who carry it. They experience what it is to be in the ascendant here.

Recently, while watching the Olympics opening ceremony, I noticed how much I enjoy doing something that connects me with other people in that same moment. For the opening ceremony there were an estimated 1 billion people tuning in to the same event at the same time, it was a global moment. This is the idea of synchronicity, it is the idea of meeting in time. It is a green theme.

Through history the idea that you had to be there to share the moment is fundamental. Had i turned the TV on that evening i would not have been able to see the opening ceremony unfold - i would not have been sharing it in real time with other people. I would not have been in synchronicity with the event.

In our modern world i am noticing a new way of relating to the world emerge. New technology is making it easier and easier to access events in your own time, when you want to.  First with specialist internet services - downloading films rather than renting them from the shop, and now increasingly these services are entering the public mainstream. Podcasts and downloads from the radio are increasingly common, and in the UK this year, the BBC has launched iPlayer which allows people to watch any tv programme from the last 7 days according to their own schedule - in their own time.

This is the fact, we are moving to a new way of relating to the world - the way of “in our own time”. New technology is making this possible. New technology is connected to Turquoise, as are also themes of individuation - being true to our individuality. The growing freedom to make our own choices, to experience life as we choose.  This trend has a downside, it fragments us socially (turquoise is opposite to coral - the energy of the collective), how easy is it to talk to someone in public if they are listening to their music on their headphones?

This growing turquoise reality of living in our own time is taking energy away from the significance of our shared experiences in the “real time” of green. Einstein’s work on relativity showed the way for this new paradigm, he realised that time is relative, relative to our position and movement through space. We are becoming a community of fragmented individual points of consciousness, each with increasing freedom to live in our own time.

There are so many ways to continue this theme from here

Aquarius and Leo - freedom and the shadow of central power

Changing work and study patterns - the disintegration of the family

The Aura-Soma original Tarot image of B85 The Chariot - Pegasus taking off from the earth. Very fitting to the themes of this idea. Under the sphere of Saturn, return journey of Yellow / Green.

From the Green / Red earthbound axis of the Colour Rose to the Turquoise / Coral axis which frees us from the earth, just as the internet circles the earth, information / energy flowing around it.

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The 1999 documentary Dice World opens with a man stopping passers-by on the street and asking them “What is your dream? If you could do anything what would it be?” The man was George Cockcroft and in the 1970’s his book, The Dice Man, had caused a sensation. The main character in that book, Luke Rhinehart, lived his life according to the roll of dice, and the book inspired many to experiment with the same in their own lives, sometimes with damaging results. Yet over the years the author George Cockcroft had come to a very interesting view on this practice. Watching this documentary gave me many thoughts, about life and especially about the themes of the colour Blue.

One lady’s reply to Luke’s question was “Sell my house, buy a camper van and travel around the States.” Whatever the person’s answer was, George would then present them with a dice. “Roll it,” he said. “If it is an even number, 2,4,6, commit to making that dream a reality this year. If it is an odd number, 1,3,5, then just carry on as you are.” “Are you willing to commit? Are you willing to roll?” It was amazing to see people’s reactions. Often a look of fear, or at the very least uncertainty appeared on their faces – Can I? Dare I? What if the dice comes up even and I have to live my dream?

From a chakra / energy perspective it is the colour yellow that feeds fear. (Even Hollywood and James Cagney knew that instinctively). Green is the heart chakra, and therefore where our hearts desire may be found. (Hollywood knew that too – in the Wizard of Oz Dorothy had to travel to the Emerald City to achieve her hearts desire.) Thus George Cockcroft’s question was addressing the green and his invitation to roll the dice was triggering people’s yellow issues.

But hidden within the colour green is also blue. The blue of the throat chakra which is above the green of the heart. The blue that, in the rainbow, is one step closer to the centre. As the documentary unfolded it became clear that the whole direction and gift of the Dice Man philosophy lay in the blue. Blue brings something else to this equation of living our dream, something that makes all the difference.

Read more tomorrow …