WHAT. My little book, it seems, wasn't ambitious about getting itself out into the world. Its intent was to get me out into the world. I grew up emotionally and religiously sheltered, and while I broke from the ranks in my early thirties, I carried so much insecurity, worldly shyness and naiveté with me when I stumbled out the door. I could create my own small workshops and lead my own spiritual community; but at age sixty, the word "networking" sent sirens screaming through my system. Yet as an author, this activity was not on the negotiable list. I had to find the place within myself to enter the world, be authentic (even in my shakiness), and learn to connect with others outside of a safe sphere of my own creating.

  

WHERE At an out-of-town networking event (where I sold one book), I met Rachel, who would be my liaison to living in Hawaii-an experience that offered exponential opportunities for spiritual growth and that continues to expand my heart even though my physical "lifetime" there was May through September 2010. (For the newest expansion of my Maui life, read "Thanks to the Humble Blog") But Hawaii was lift-off for an even more exotic locale: cyber space. A couple of years into my grand and gratifying networking expedition, I was luanched into this outer space that is now populated with connections all over the country and beyond.

  

WHO So many faces, hearts, and spirits adorn my days now, a physical and virtual world of loving, supportive women-some I have loved for decades and some I have just met. One I communed with for two hours on Skype recently from Bristol. Another is a favorite blogger friend in Belize.

  

And one, who dwells in her own relational biosphere, is flying to the Big Island of Hawaii in three days to meet me. Her name is Loui and some day, our full story will be told. But for now, it's enough to say that after forty-six years, we will be reuniting at the Kona airport, arms open and hearts overflowing. Loui and I grew up together in Indiana and each of us, unbeknownst to the other, found her way out of a rigid religion and into a life of Spirit--while living in the state of California. (And now we're meeting in "heaven!") How did we find each other after decades of silent separation? She heard from someone that I'd written a book.

  

WHY My book, "Who Are You Calling Grandma?" was written for the largest generation of women ever to inhabit the earth, so I still may become a well-selling author someday. But it hardly matters now. Clearly there is a far deeper agenda here that just keeps unfolding. That agenda is my own evolution and all the ways that evolution might support, encourage and inspire the evolution of others. For me, nothing could be more fulfilling.

  

What life experience is turning out differently than you imagined? Can you see it serving a purpose beyond the one you envisioned?