Coffee Club

Though taking a nap during our hour and fifteen minutes lunch break seems customary, a few of us started a new tradition of getting coffee in the market across the street from school. It started one day when i was exhausted and knew that a short nap would only make me more tired so i left the school in hopes to find caffine. What i found was an addorable coffee shop with, my favorite, a porch with outside seating. It did not take long for others to catch on when they saw how refreshed i was to start our afternoon session. There are now a permanent 6, and occasional 9, of us who go everyday at noon for the best coffee we have found in Thailand yet...
The sweet owner Hum started preparing "our section" everyday with a fan (Thailand is hot as hell, especially at noon) and ashtrays. When our group grew larger than the porch could hold, she built a patio beyond it just so we could all sit together outside! Talk about customer service! She also knows now by heart what we each get and has it started before we even arrive. One day we were running late and she said that she can bring them to school for us if we ever do not have time to come... This is the way of the Thai. I feel like this would never happen in America, except for maybe some small town in the middle of no where.
But what is even better are the conversations had over coffee. There is no talk of the weather or trivial matters such as complaints or what we did over the weekend. Instead we have deep discussions about the world, politics, terror (many are from countries that live in fear everyday), culture, spirituality, and healing... just to name a few. Todays discussion, for example, was on reincarnation and past lives. Many of us are very "in tune" and are not only sensitive to energy, but intuitive in the most amazing ways. Several of us have done "regression therapy" in which you are put into a dream like state and get information on your souls past lives. A few are so in tune that they were aware of it by themselves at a very young age, only to have it confirmed later in regression therapies or by clairvoient people. The energy around our table alone throughout the conversation gave each of us goosebumps.
This was so spectacular to me. I have very few people in my life in America that i can have these type of discussions with. Most people dont even believe in reincarnation, and yet there i sat with 6 of my friends listening to each of them describe what they know from their lives before this one. The story that gave me the biggest smile, and the most goosbumps, was Clarence's lives and the kindred spirits he has been traveling with throughout each one. He was a pilgrim in the days of the "discovery of America" and became very good friends with a native american, which was forbidden. They promised to meet again, and the native's soul now lives in his Son. In another life he was an aristocrat in London and in love with his servent, but was forbidden to have a relationship with her. After seeing a clarvoient "spiritual artist" recently who draws the guardian angel and other spirits that are linked to your soul, she drew a picture of a young woman... the servent! The artist said the woman has already joined him in this life. When he got home his 5 year old daughter saw the drawing and said, "thats me daddy!" She knew nothing of where her father had just been or how the drawing had come about, but upon one look at the picture she said over and over that it was her. How amazing!
I have known for a long time that i was asian in another life, and i look forward to getting more inforation about it. The moment i got here i felt completely at home... more so than in America. I now realize that my everyday habbits and tendacies, even since i was a little girl, like bowing when saying thank you and being barefoot whenever possible, are characteristic of Asians, especially the Thai. A man said to me last week that I speak Thai very well, with almost no accent (which is damn hard to do- this language is tonal and very difficult) and that i must have spoken it in another life. It was so funny he should happen to say that, considering i have always thought that. I had to smile. I hope to find a regression therapist soon and gain more knowledge about my past life here. The thought alone resonates so deep in my soul that i have no doubt that it is true. I have been saying it for a long time, while my friends at home laughed (at least in a loving way), yet there i sat with 6 other people who believed me and had even more experiences! I knew i wasnt crazy!
I said it before and I'll say it again: I am so fortunate for my deep connection with Source and the way Divine is always taking care of me... giving me knew information, confirming with "clicks" (to be explained in my next post), and leading the way with every step i take. My own self confidence and wisdom grows every day here, and i am so thankful in every moment. To think this powerful journey would not have happened if i got married last year... And though i never doubted it, it just goes to show that EVERYTHING happens for a reason...