What an exhilarating time to be alive! Rapid changes,
rapid growth and transformation seemed the order of the day. This kind of
acceleration is not always comfortable or easy, but the way I see it,
there is nothing more to do than to embrace it and let it move us forward.
The Nineties were filled with challenges that tested my strength and all I
had learned up until then. I had difficult health challenges, now healed
through Grace and alternative medicine and determination. I journeyed
through another divorce during which time I lost my home and most of my
finances. My father died from lung cancer in 1992 and my mother died in
the summer of 1995.
I formed a film production company called Windermere Productions in
partnership with an established female producer, and a good friend.
Although none of our films were made, I had three years of learning that
the "other" side of the camera is no less challenging. I wrote and
produced a meditation tape called The Spirit of Peace which I presented
"live" in the General Assembly at the United Nations in December of 1990.
I am very proud of this particular project. I continued my ongoing work
with The United Nations Environment Programme, which took me to Africa,
The Arctic, and allowed me to meet and "bond" with such fine
environmentalists as Dr. David Suzuki and his wife, Tara. My global family
of concerned and dedicated humanists expanded significantly in the
Nineties.
I recorded a series of Meditation
tapes for A Course In Miracles called the Search
for Serenity. This is another project that gives me
great satisfaction. I spent a happy season on Picket
Fences as the Mayor of Rome, Wisconsin. I won an
Emmy for this role in 1995.
I had
a re-entry into the wonderful and chaotic world of Rock
and Roll in a three year relationship with Dave Mason,
formerly of Traffic. We are old friends from the
Seventies. In these years with him, I spent at least one
year travelling in and out of the Fleetwood Mac
tours. David had joined them in 1995.
In November 1997, my son Patrick
O'Neal and Rebecca De Mornay had their first child,
a little girl. I have welcomed this soul with all my heart. She gives me the opportunity to step into another role of
loving. I'm very happy with my life. I'm used to
challenge. I'm getting to experience much more
about joy, happiness, sharing and loving in my personal
life. And so the adventure continues.
