We had a wonderful mini-Ananda, with Rick, and with old and new friends. Lots of reflections about how manifestation is more than always getting our way. About how to navigate our way toward manifestation when the going is not easy... We ended with the time-tested Ananda ritual of gift exchange, where everyone put whatever they wanted to give away at the central altar, and then, in a meditative state, we each went to the altar and picked up whatever came to us first, rather than picking and choosing. As always, we got what we really needed - something that will be a talisman for our journey ahead into the winter, and then into the new year.