He loves bubbles as much as I do, which is saying something. He’s actually created an entire course about how to blow bubbles, artistic bubbles in the water. He introduced me to a “bubble ring”. My mind is blown. The ocean is blowing my mind. I’ve made friends with a freediving underwater photographer marine biologist pirate and my mind explodes with every sentence he speaks. I’m speechless as he tells me that parrot fish are all born female and the strongest one will change sex mid-life to become a reproducing male! I look around wide-eyed in wonder as he tells me of the night he was on a sailboat crossing the Atlantic and the boat was suddenly surrounded by sperm whales inviting him to jump into the water. He’s one of the most passionate, nerdy, adventurous humans I’ve ever met and we’re planning to swim together and hike up the volcano for sunrise. We’ve agreed to exchange information; he’ll teach me about the ocean animals and I’ll guide him into videography. It can be a confusing uncertain transition for photographers to learn videography. I love offering this training to people so this is a fabulous collaboration for me.
I have stayed up past my bedtime multiple nights in a row now, overflowing with joyful curiosity, giddy gratitude, and eager anticipation for the next morning. I’ve spent this week resting on a cliff overlooking the ocean, absorbing facts about freediving and discovering the absolute insanity that is the ocean world. It’s calling me. I’m feeling obsession setting in and I like it.
I befriended a diving musician photographer from Sweden last night in the yoga studio. We stayed up late exchanging stories about the real work behind taking photographs and pleasing clients. We bonded over our love of nudity, laughing at how natural it is and wondering when the rest of the humans will take off their clothes and realize how much more comfortable it is to be bare. We high-fived over the fact I teach naked yoga online. That blew his mind a little and he loved it. My smile grew even bigger when he told me how he takes naked portraits of himself outside in nature. I’m excited to visit him in Sweden. He was glowing with passion.
Rick is sending me messages from Australia as our time together approaches. He wants to film me underwater just as much as I want to float in front of the camera. We’re a match made in Phuket. I literally manifested this man into my life. The humans I’ve been longing for are popping up right and left. WhenI was in Thailand, the day before my scuba diving training began, I wrote a list of things I wanted in my life. First was scuba diving. Second was professional videographers who would want to help me create music videos. I literally wrote to myself that I would focus on diving first and once I took care of that I would turn my attention to the videographers. Can you imagine how I was smiling when I walked into the Aussie Divers scuba center on day one of training and standing right there in the entrance was Rick, ready with his camera, taking pictures of me from the moment I met him, telling me how much he’d been praying to meet a mermaid model to work with?! So that was easy. Give me a “That was easy!” button to carry around with me please. I need it these days.
I’ve been living in flow so opportunities float in naturally one after the other. Each person I meet arrives in my life loaded up with gifts to give me, needing all these gifts I’ve been carrying around in my arms. The giving and receiving cycle is alive and well and life feels vibrant. It’s a rainy day at the ocean. I’m watching fewer boats than usual pull out of the bay. I hear pitter patter of raindrops on the jungle leaves around me. I sip a flat white coffee and enjoy writing all of this to share with you. Gentle energy and slow living is allow so much space for pleasure, joy and wonder.
Love, Rainbows and Bubbles,
Cha Wilde