Driving from Ohio to Montana and back again unlicensed, speeding and child jum[ping around unbuckled......guy who was riding asked how I did not see state troupers every few miles and how did they not see me and when we returned the rental van the guy who wrote down the mileage and gas usage asked how it was possible we used so little gas.
Back and forth across the country several times in camper with no title,license or registration, no money with two small children. Cops would be directly behind us at stop lights and never even look to notice the expired temporary registration Once ran out of gas and went to the police station and knowing we were unregistered, etc he paid for our gas to get us out of town. Flying sign on street corner for first time, wouldn't you know I would get on that corner after several others just when an officer with a particular grudge against beggars shows up and insists on giving me ticket, so I signed it "under duress" and he had no idea what my name was because I had no I.D. As we would pass through state check points, etc out west like California border, etc, the border patrols would just happen to be looking the other way while waving us through. Staying in state and federal parks, etc they'd come to investigate everyone for weed and well, I don't smoke it so not even noticing our illegal vehicle and lack of I.D. they'd leave.
The funniest one was a truck load of us heading to northern New Hampshire to check out a tree truck a couple of the guys wanted to buy. We stopped to see if we were in the right place only to be told we went too far and were in Canada...uh how'd we get across the border?
I was hospitalized and then had to stay in a nursing home for 6 months before and after a 5 hour surgery. With no family to take my two youngest in, they went into foster care. By some miracle they not only ended up in a home where the mother did not immunize her own children, but the state never pushed too hard to immunize mine despite having put them in public schools.
There was always a $100 given by a complete stranger when we needed gas money, food unrequested when hungry, etc.
I spent more than 10 years with no I.D. of any kind far away from family and friends and the universe delivered constantly. It was not always by means agreeable with me, but I got over much of it, letting go judgement about receiving and overcoming "implied" strings, conditions, 'contracts'.
Two more things come to mind: we are not here to introduce 'limitations,' 'boundaries', map out the hows, about creation, we have already exceeded them. We are here to live beyond them.
Number two: many of us have lived life 'outside the system' with hardship, feeling homeless, unwelcome, outsiders, etc. We have been moved back into the system and been rewarded when we 'follow the rules'/become 'good citizens'. That is NOT the intention of that period of our lives: to become 'cooperative components within the system'. The goal was the feeling of 'I am legal', 'I am welcome', 'I belong', 'I am accepted', 'I am loved', 'my needs are always met'...most of all 'I am legitimate'. So now we know that feeling in this body. We can summon that feeling in any given moment, radiate it constantly without thinking of it and THEN hardship comes again, plans of working within the system appear to fail, no matter what rules we follow, we loose our circumstance's security. That means it's time to go out again but this time in this new-to-this-body energy of belonging, legitimacy, watched over, blessed, grace-given being.
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