Spending Time Is the Best Gift

I have a god daughter who I treasure. I don’t see her very often as we live in different cities. She is a wonderful teenager who is smart and engaged in a whole variety of interests from music to acting and photography.

Last week was a school holiday in Canada where she lives and we got to spend an amazing week together in London at our newly renovated Savoy Hotel which is a Fairmont Hotel and then in Paris at our also newly renovated Royal Monceau which is a Raffles Hotel designed by world famous Phillippe Starck.

Seeing these two favourite cities of mine through my god daughter’s eyes was the BEST vacation. She LOVED staying in these hotels, of course but she also made me and her mom go and see things I had never done in my 20+visits to London. We went on the London Eye and we even went to Abbey Road to have our pictures taken like the Beatles on their album cover (along with 20 or so others with the same idea). We went to Carnaby Street and laughed like crazy showing her some of the fashions now popular again – that she couldn’t believe her mother and I wore many years ago. She talked me into buying a pretty trendy dress in Paris and out of buying an overpriced and not so hip bag. We also saw a few famous sites in between all of this.
I learned so much. The time spent just experiencing the world with people you really love is a life tonic. BUT add to that – spending time with wonderful young people reminds you to keep a youthful outlook – so vibrant, positive, engaged, and hopeful and so much fun that it fills you up with a powerful energy.

And we didn’t even go to a SPA!!! Imagine if we had added that in too!!!

I try to live the Willow Stream philosophy of living with abundant energy – my new promise to myself….. Invite more of the people I love to enjoy life with me.