Nearly three years ago, on invitation, I arrived in Minnesota for a weekend stay.  I fell in love!

I fell in love with something that feels alive in me, when I sit peacefully and feel it.  It's a feeling I don't feel, or have not felt, in many places in my life but here in Minnesota is it easy to feel it.  It feels like spring. It feel grounded, and centered, and like I belong.  Here.  So I stayed!

Sometimes we just need to give in to what we need.  What gives us peace.  Release.  What grounds us, relaxes us, makes us feel whole in a world that sometimes put holes in us.  I love that spending time with friends is like that.  I feel fortunate that I feel whole in and by myself, as well as with my friends.

Someone once said that being with me helps fill up some of those holes in his  life, too.  It may not be a permenant solution, but for while it lasts it sure feels good!!  I'm glad.  Doing that fulfills me as well.

Happy Spring!!

XO

Wendy 

A couple of people have asked about the New York situation I wrote about below, so I want to update you on that.  The woman who was injured apprently stayed in the hospital but was relased and is expected to be ok.  I'm so glad!!!   But since that time there has been the "Boston" situation....the so-called "Craigslist" killer.  Wow... um... so that's why I have not been able to write.  What can be said?  What a sad sad event for the family of the woman who was killed.  Truely what a sad event for the man suspected of being (and likely) responsible.  How many lives messed up?  Truely I ache over it.  I honestly believe that man really was just after the money.  What a shame his gun was loaded....he never used it on his other victims other than to get them to comply, and if it had not been loaded of course this woman would still be alive.  His life is also irrevocably screwed up, even if (and I'm not hoping for this!) his lawyer "gets him off" (which he has done in a previous "slam dunk" case).  Meanwhile the "suspect" is broke so now we are paying his legal fees.  Nice.

Another thought.  I know people can be squirrly about "verification" and there can be good reason for it, depending on to whom you are entrusting your information.  But if any one of the previous women (there MAY have been more than one) had verified who this man was before they met him, and he robbed them, he might not have had the chance to do this crime over, and over, again.  Instead this aspiring actress is dead.

Ya know, I really can't say any more.  But be safe, and think with BOTH heads.

XO

Wendy 

I believe in community.

I believe in coming together to help one another, to offer support, friendship, a helping hand or just a prayer when needed.

I believe people do this naturally, and that it makes a difference.  "Prayer" is simple... just think of the person in need, and send a wish from your heart to theirs.  Repeat as often as you can.  If you don't "know" them, don't let that stop you...jthe "prayer" goes out just the same!  I do it every time I hear a firetruck siren or see an ambulance in a rush to a place unknown to me.  It's so simple...but it makes a difference.  I know.  I've been on the prayer receiving side.

I am witnessing that sense of community taking place in New York today.  A tragedy has fallen on a member of the escort community, and people are taking note, and sending wishes.  If the call comes in a few days, or weeks, I will not be surprised if a benefit or outreach is requested... and I know that request will be answered.  It has been before, in other cities all over this nation, within this community.  The Minneapolis escort/hobbiest community has helped one another out several times just in the few years I've lived here.

Isn't it a beautiful thing when we can choose to help one another out?  To feel we know who it is we are helping, and helping those we really want to help?  I believe  in this, and I hope that the freedom to choose whom we help remains our own.

XO

Wendy