Letters to the Elders from Fall Rendezvous Participants

I hope you are all well and that you have enjoyed the time since we were all together at Neringa.

My commitment was to go to my sit spot every day, and I have fulfilled that commitment.

It was much more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I think the hardest part of this commitment is the fact that I had to go every day. If I just wanted to go every day then it would have been easy; if I was busy one day then I could just not go to my sit spot that day. I am happy that I did complete this challenge successfully.

About halfway through I was starting to get annoyed by the road that runs about fifty yards away from my sit spot. It is not a very busy road but it was distracting when a car or truck drove by. I thought about moving my sit spot to a different place but I decided not to when I remembered how I found my sit spot in the first place. I was looking for a fallen tree that I could use for firewood and a bench. I found many fallen trees but none of them felt right. As I was looking I kept walking through a clearing that felt good but I dismissed it every time because there was no fallen tree. About the third time I went through it, a chipmunk ran right past me and stopped right in the middle and sat up and looked around. At that moment I knew it was the right place. (It turned out that I didn't really need the fallen tree after all.)

So I did not move my sit spot. In fact, I continued going to that sit spot every day, sometimes for five minutes, sometimes for much longer. Sometimes I would make a fire, and sometimes I would take my dog, Sparky. I noticed that I liked it more each time I went.

On the last night of my commitment (winter solstice), I slept at my sit spot and watched the sun rise over the snowy trees the next morning.

One other thing I did was to build a Jedi training center. I started work on it as soon as I got home from Neringa. When is the next Youth Rendezvous? I hope I can be there, and I hope you can too.

                  Happy New Year!