Jiggety Jig

Soooo good to be in Miami again. The line for imigration was really long, probably the worse part of the journey which was over all pretty dreary anyway. The thing with entering the US is that there is always the slight chance that they won't let you in. I complete the online ESTA application of course (lying through teeth in all the key places) but you never know. Homeland Security at Miami is pretty freindly compared to New York where they make you feel like you are on Interpols most wanted list every time.

I got the bus from the airport to South Beach. My number one achievement last time I was here was figuring out how to get the airport bus and save myself $35. So far that bit of ingenuity has saved me $70 so I am pretty pleased with myself.

Hey, that's no way to say goodbye

Came home, had a bath, went to Laundry and started to pack my things. Managed to get a comb through my hair for the first time in over 3 weeks...Going home tomorrow so wont be posting on this page until the next time I come to Miami.  I took a break from blogging since September but I am loving it so I will continue to post on
http://poisoniris.blogspot.com/ when I get home.
I have some writing on http://irispersonalassistant.blogspot.com/ that you are welcome to check out
and my first blog http://iris39.blogspot.com/

Thank you for your attention x

This is the last day of our aquaintance

My last day on the beach, my last walk past the Loewes Hotel.

Usual appauling weather

I thought I would walk the whole length of the beach from the breakers at the Southern Point to the breakers at the North. Effectively it means I walked it twice as I hit the beach at 16th St.

I walked in the water, it would be too hot otherwise

Got to the Southern Break and went into the ocean for the last time

Then I turned around and walked to the furthest point - which as you can see is super far! I listened to the Sinead O'Connnor album - I Feel So Different . I starts with The Serinty Prayer - you can run but you can't hide.

I played the album a couple of times along the way, but I made it.

I lay down at the northern point but my skin has had enough, I was feeling the wrong kind of pain so I kept walking instead. My friend John always talks about the wrong wrong choice. Like sometimes you can make a 'wrong' choice where you can see that the alternative would have been better but it works out eventually anyway. Other times you make the wrong wrong choice and things get extremely messy.

Buy cheap buy twice

I started my sunbathing using Clarins which is expensive here, $34 but I am wreckless not stupid (or I was) and I knew I needed to invest in my skin. Anyway a few days ago I ran out so I bought some Banana Boat rubbish in the supermarket for $6.99 thinking my skin was stronger so it wouldn't matter. Wrong. I am totally alergic to cheap stuff, now I am covered in hideous heat rash. It might be gods way of telling me I need to quit while I am ahead. Obviously I have no intention of doing any such thing but I will go to the beach later today as a concession.

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'I am less interested in how you got here than I am in how you stay here.'

I know that you will listen to me

I went back to the beach this evening , to see the full moon, it was amazing. The sun was setting behind me and the sea was darkening in front of me.

I waited for ages for it to get dark but eventually the sun had gone and the stars came out.

The ocean was a kind of mother of pearl colour, very pretty.

I was listening to Sinead singing Nothing Compares To You while I was waiting

Once it was dark, two large cruise ships stopped on the horizon right in front of me like altar candles. Like a sign , I see 'signs' everywhere  its probably some kind of condition but whatever...

I had all my little prayers and petitions written out, by the way, I am some one who prays for specifics and I am very comfortable with that. I know that God gave me my mind and my desire in the first place and I also know that the issue is to not have attachment to outcomes.

Anyway I walked into the water tearing up my little papers and released them into the waves and sat back on the sand to watch this massive red moon come up.

My friend once told me this Rabbinical saying 'the essence of your prayers is that they will be heard.'

A deeper shade of blue

The moon controls everything, the sea is dark today, the tides are chained. I am going back to the ocean when it gets dark to offer my prayers up to the Scorpio moon. The full moon tonight and Mercury in retrograde till Saturday mean that its best to keep a low profile. I have a talent for causing offence so I am glad I am here for most of it! Remember the old Yorkshire saying 'if in doubt, do now't' and you won't cause yourself too many problems.