EMIGRATING TO CANADA
In my later teenage years I lived with the great aspirations of becoming a great soccer player. Pélé, from Brazil was my mentor, my standard of achievement. I had three major tryouts with professional teams: S.S. Lazio of Rome, S.S. Roma of Rome, and S.S. Pescara of Pescara.

When I realized that it was not in my destiny for a professional soccer career, the emigrating to Canada presented itself and felt natural. My brother Peter, who was one year younger than I said, "If you go to Canada, I'm coming too and we'll have to go with the ship because it will be more fun than flying."

My father and mother accompanied my brother and I to the Port of Naples to board the Leonardo da Vinci. My father had been a veteran emigrant worker himself. He climbed into our ship's cabin and said "I never would have believed that my own children would have to emigrate for a living this far away." The tears flowed profusely down his tristful face, and his love bathed and nourished me eternally.

The years that followed were filled with the learning of a new language, continuing my technological, academic and spiritual studies, working, getting married, investing in real estate, paying off mortgages, and starting my building business career. In the meantime, Margaret and I were blessed with two very beautiful and connected children, Sarah and Aaron.

In 1993, after 19 years of marriage and business, there were major changes to occur in my life. As my marriage came to a closure, I began a clear, deep and new paradigm of awareness. This time I desired integrity at all levels. In the midst of the turbulence of the changes, and turbulent they were, my daughter Sarah, then 16, came to join me in the "business". She has since been a mirror of reflections in every way, a partner in business and in spiritual growth. I am eternally grateful for this gift.