Trust the Rooster
by
Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
© 2007
It was the first night of our
long awaited Baja Mexico vacation. We’d had a great time in Todos
Santos with Jim’s brother Bill and his wife Kelly who took us to
Miguel’s for guacamole and nachos and then on to the famed Hotel
California for a long, leisurely dinner.
Now we were in bed, 10 pm Baja
(Mountain) time.
What appeared as a modest,
casual little hotel on the web suddenly turned into a cacophony of
yapping, snarling dogs serenaded by a cat in heat.
Welcome to Mexico!
The four-legged locals exhausted
themselves around midnight and we finally got some sleep.
But not for long . . .
The King Kong of Roosters, who
lives right behind our little hotel (and immediately on the other
side of our bedroom window) decided to announce day break sometime
around 3 am by setting off an elaborate call and response with two
neighboring cock-a-doodle-doers.
Not to be outdone, Senor Yapper
Dog from the night before (who shares the same back yard behind our
bedroom window) chimed in anytime the roosters took a break.
We made the most of it all . . .
laughing, teasing, and even singing a Doo-Wop duet we’re perfecting
of “What’s Your Name?” (. . . Is it Mary or Sue? Do I stand a chance
with you?) If you’re under 50 you may never have heard the song but
we are huge fans of Doo Wop..
Blessedly, every so often sleep
was more demanding than the backyard quartet so neither of us
suffered the next day.
BUT at some point while Judith
was lying awake contemplating two more nights there (that was
Tuesday and we were scheduled to be back there Friday and Saturday
nights as well) she not only jumped to the fact that under no
uncertain terms would we return to that “charming” little hotel but
other parts of the trip could also be changed to make it more
comfortable and fun for us.
So the next morning we visited
the Hacienda at Todos Los Santos and reserved a lovely private
casita for Saturday night and then, upon arrival in La Paz, booked
that hotel for Friday night thereby breaking up our return drive
from Mulege.
It was all now perfect!
Why and how?
Trust the Rooster!
Because “the rooster” that
appears to be wrecking everything . . . whatever form that rooster
may take in your life . . . is always opening the door for you to
rethink what you are doing, where you are going . . . what you want
from life.
So Trust the Rooster and bust
yourself loose from whatever you thought was right and good and
allow the frustration, the upheaval to show you a new, easier,
larger way to approach your life.
Trust the Rooster!
And we wish you many, many
Fabulous Roosters
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