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What's with 2, 22 and 222!

9/24/2015

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Never really gave much thought to the number 2…why would you. Certainly more recognized (and feared) numbers than ‘two’..right? For example “she’s a 10”, We’re “number 1”, party like it’s “1999”, unlucky “#13”, sign of the beast “666" and certainly Gods divine number “7” ( also happens to be Fletch’s street address some of you might recall haha). So with all of these superior examples why would you remember, or better yet, even notice the number 2?

Well, not sure why but this guy has! And I mean a lot. More specifically it’s the number 2, 22 and  three times over.. “222”. I believe the first I started noticing this sequence was a result of still being awake in the early hours of the morning, 2:22 am ugh!!

So the question I have is this.  “Is there an underlying meaning tied to noticing a certain sequence of numbers over and over and over again?”  If you ask My wife she would emphatically say “yes, you bet there is a real and distinct reason”. She would call such occurrences “divine intervention!”  “seeing Angel numbers- more importantly a message from your guardian angel.”

That’s all fine and dandy, is always my first reaction, but now it’s got me wondering… is she right”? Is there something to her point? 

As I mentioned I haven’t been sleeping well over the past 4 weeks or so..maybe longer. (Fairly easy conclusion now understanding I have been noticing 2:22 in the am consistently) . The issue is my mind. So many darn things on my mind these days running up to and preparing for this saga in front of us. Who am I kidding…I always have crazy things going on in my head so I can’t absolutely place the blame on our impending “adventure”. But the mind certainly has been exacerbated greatly as a result of this milestone fast approaching us. Things I’ve never contemplated before like a 12,000 pound vehicle sitting in my driveway, which I know very little about, 300 Square feet of living space for 5 humans and one 65 lbs canine for an entire year!  Working on the road during this quest, a fridge half the size of our in-home, let alone No BEER-fridge in the garage! 1 bathroom, 1 shower and the list goes on and on and on. Now that I think about it why couldn’t those numbers be “2”? So again I haven’t been sleeping well and have noticed the 2:22 am a number of times, enough times to seem extremely odd. But then I started noticing 222 all over the place. Invoice number 222, Our average electric bill over the last 12 months (and no I am not fibbing, Had to check for our friend and house-sitter during our excursion), and the average monthly bill you ask? Of course $222. Then I noticed a prospect I was calling on the other day and guess what? 222 Design Solutions (or something like that- the 222 was there for sure). Again this is starting to  get kind of weird; Enough so for me to take notice.

So is Tiff right? Is there something, someone, some THING, trying to point me in a direction of contemplation? As a result I started to further ponder Tiffany’s evangelizing these “Angel” numbers and decided to do a little investigation. She is so passionate about it so why not humor her. The investigation took me down a interesting rabbit hole. Again for the sole purpose of finding some reasonable answers as to whether there existed some importance to these numbers 2, 22 and 222. Things that I might just not know about the number 2; shoot how many unique “things” about the number 2 could there actually be? I’ll bet I would find only two….

Firstly, without any help from dear old www. I pulled off the top of my head some trivial utterings of the number 2. And lo and behold.  ‘ I Double-dare you’ ‘It takes 2 to tango’, ‘Like 2 peas in a pod’, ‘lock stock and 2 smoking barrels, ‘2 sides to every story’, 2 sides to every coin.  ‘2 eyes, arms, legs, hands, ears, feet and for the guys…..   But also what about ‘ying and yang’, only 2 teams in the Superbowl, World Series, Sumo Wrestling Championship, and just now, watching the Royals and Mariners, heard just announced Robinson Cano hit into his 22nd double-play for the year and guess what his player number is? Yep 22!!! Holy. See what I’m saying. Oh Oh and I almost forgot. Actually started writing this confounded blog post last night ( by the way this is not easy..it’s actually going to take me 2! Days), while again watching the Royals and  they flashed the teams magic number for winning, for the first time in club history, the Central Division in the American League. Guess what that magic number is? 2 ONCE again. Nuts.

So back to some serious investigation. Back to this Angel number stuff. I proceed to climb further into the proverbial hole (stop laughing Thorsen) based on Tiff’s recommendation and continued my investigation here http://sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.com/2011/07/angel-number-222.html  And wow!

ANGEL NUMBER 222
Number 222 is made up of the attributes of and energies of the number 2 tripled, making number 222 a very powerful vibration. This number carries the attributes of the numbers 2 and 22, the Master Builder Number that resonates with ancient wisdom, vision, idealism and transformation. Number 2 lends its influences of faith and trust, encouragement, attainment and success, adaptability, diplomacy and co-operation, duality, service and duty, balance and harmony, selflessness, faith and trust and your Divine life purpose and soul mission. Number 222 has to do with balance, manifesting miracles and new auspicious and timely opportunities.  

When Angel Number 222 repeats in your life you are asked to take a balanced, harmonious and peaceful stance in all areas of your life.  The message is to keep the faith and stand strong in your personal truths.

The message of repeating Angel Number 222 is that everything will turn out for the best in the long-term.  Do not put your energies into negativity – be aware that all is being working out by spirit for the highest good of all involved.  Angel Number 222 is also reminding you to keep up the good work you are doing, as the evidence of your manifestations are coming to fruition.

Angel Number 222 is a message of faith and trust from your angels.  Know that all is being worked out for the highest good of all involved.  Remember that nothing happens by chance and everything happens for a reason.  Maintain a positive attitude and you will find that everything will have positive results and you will receive abundant blessings in Divine right timing.


 Angel Number 22 is a message from your angels that you are to take a balanced, harmonious and peaceful stance in all areas of your life.  Stand strong in your personal convictions and act accordingly.  You have a great deal to achieve, and with devotion and inner-wisdom you will be able to successfully manifest your desired results.

Upon finishing I sat back and scratched by head. Was pretty profound for a guy who has been fighting all these exact recommendations, insights, and thoughts. I have been the epitome of a grumpy old man lately. No doubt about it. So Is there really a guardian angel, one just for me, really telling me to chill out on this journey by showing me the numbers 2,22 and 222 constantly!!?   “Hey Dawson- ‘222’- “I’m trying to voice to you to relax, have faith, trust, all things will work out, stay strong, nothing happens by chance. 

Well…maybe there is some merit to this Angel thing.. and why not? All kinds of crazy things are happening, have happened, to others on this crazy planet. Why not this Fercho tjen?

Regardless of whether it’s real or not I think I'll take the advice. Can’t hurt. Why not go at this from a different perspective. It certainly can't make things worse.

Until later, and in the words of Chuck Woolery (remember him..the Dating Game dude), talk to you in “2 and 2”

Dawson


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I Can't do this...or Can I? Thank you Diana Nyad

9/10/2015

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[quick side note] My mind races so my writing style tends to follow and why I apologize and ask for your patience in reading. Never really blogged before and why the words slamming into the inside of of forehead, including punctuation, may be difficult to follow. Hopefully, as I continue to work through such processes, it will get better. Until that time just humor me or stop reading- haha. Thanks!

It’s probably five years now since the idea of traveling with the family on the road for 18 months (yes you read correctly) was first incepted into the mind of my lovely wife Tiffany; or maybe it was sooner in hers but first hit my ears 5 ears ago. The first I heard of such a dream, and yes I get it I'm suppose to be her knight in shining armor, I pointedly stated “ please give me what you are taking!” Sure I entertained it but only as a passing fancy.. “I humored her”.

Let me project you now 5 years forward, I happened to be in Seattle on a business trip recently and had the opportunity to break-bread with a longtime friend of mine at Alki Beach. During our numerous discussions of reminiscing, I laid out for him this exceptional trip our family was embarking on shortly in the month of October 2015. He was at first flabbergasted and then settled down to highlight ‘…coming from you this makes sense and somewhat expect it…it’s about time”. What was so alarming to me about this remark is that not only was he right but he was also so very wrong; this was not my idea…it was my wife! ….should it have been mine?

As the days past I continued to hear prescient remarks of Grant's and his utter surprise as to my apprehension of taking on such a massive adventure. See back in the day, prior to “Married with Children”, risk taking was as to kin to me as family. There was very little I would avoid to venture, to be challenged by or risk. The change happened with me overnight when Quinten was born. And though typical to who I have been since a very young age, the big entrepreneur ideas, outlandish desires to do this or that, taking risks here and there, continued to bombard my mind, yet now seemed paralyzed to take steps to achieve them or more specifically FINISH them. I went from feeling, no challenge was insurmountable in life, to a position of feeling paper thin, unsure and indecisive. And of going through the motions of being a husband and father and fearing almost all the moving parts of my life.  Things I never thought about before, diapers, health insurance, braces, weddings, proper parenting, debt, and being an incredible best friend of the wonderful woman I confidently said “I do” to, locked me down intensely. And though I hide emotions well, the meaningful ones my wife and friends would say, my actions, over the years, have proved to deafening loud ( I think of 40,000 Minnesota Twins fans waving homer hankies) as to my internal fears.

So… pile on top of all this worry and fear, an expensive 38 foot RV, a TOAD mini-van, three young impressionable and excited children, a 60 pound golden doodle and a beautiful starry-eyed wife, living out her dream of traveling  the country for a period of no less than 12 months with the people she loves the most in the world, and you have the making of a perfect mind-dismantling storm in Mr. Dawson Fercho. In the words of George Costanza “Serenity now!”

To prove a point: This past weekend Tiffany and I took the RV and the mini-van up to the local elementary school for the maiden hook-up of the van to the RV with the newly purchased tow bar. This piece of machinery allows us to flat tow the van which was preferential to me having researched the topic quite extensively. The wiring of the mini-van coach had been completed, the base plate for the tow bar was successfully attached to the front of the van and why to me, having read very quickly (I am more a picture person and dread instructions) the operations of all these moving parts, I surmised this exercise would be quick and academic. Not the case!

I do not, at this time, desire to burden you with further details other than the fact it did not go as the detailed instructions explained, probably and only because they didn’t have a special section of instructions for a mechanically inept Dawson Fercho, I will only state the day went on the books as a further sign to me that “I can’t do this!" I will shipwreck us all!” The rest of the day were sentiments and body-language to the same. But there was a saving grace. A rebuke I feel from the good Lord himself (even after I cursed him extensively while attempting to attach that damn tow bar!). The rebuke was “Dawson.. watch “The Other Shore” and Diana Nyad and then comeback and talk to me. I built you for greatness. Quit your fricken balling, hit your fears head on. Get back to you roots”….or something like that is what I heard.

If you have not heard of and or seen the story of this incredible 60 year old woman place it on your to do list. Bring yourself, children, friends and family into your living room and let the show begin. Bring all your fears, worries, trepidations, second-guessing ,etc. and set them to the side for 55 minutes and  embrace what this woman has inside of her and know that you, all of you(us), have innate and similar DNA in us as she does. The story and challenge she placed herself into is something I have never witnessed before in my lifetime but remembered having similar fortitude years ago before becoming a husband and a father. I was moved and astonished by her dream but more so how it became a quest..bigger than a dream. A separation of mind and body. Simply put..a God-Thing.

At the end of the documentary we were, as a family, silent and in awe of her and her 35 year quest. The kids were then full of questions and when Tiff and I as parents went into the mode of counselor parent lol!.... “see you can do anything you put your mind to, can face any fears, any challenges” etc. etc. and I just had to sit back and say to myself “what a wimp. What a hypocrite. What a baby” and the list went on and on. But once I went through this process of self-deprecation I felt like I was coming out the other side. I felt once again this fire in me. This resonance with Diana’s story and at once starting popping out the wrinkles in my mind that for so long have slowly, over the years, been crippling my sense of adventure and fight. I mean shit this woman was over 60 years old, swam for more than 50 hours, not once but 4 times, until she finally swam the distance between Cuba and the U.S. through shark infested waters, being stung by box jelly fish (venom deadly to humans) and Portuguese Man O war, in her quest of achievement. 

Now I am not comparing myself, my fear and challenge in front of me to hers in the least, but certainly I have an ounce of what she possesses; we all do.

So bring on the challenge. I can, we can, do this!!

D


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