It takes a lot of courage to stay in one’s job for many years, and it takes courage to begin relationships, more courage to try to make them work, and more courage yet to decide they have ended. It takes courage to face the challenges life brings to us.
How often are we fortunate enough to fly without clouds, to be up above the noise and jostling of the daily? How often is there nothing veiling the eyes?
What word to use to describe travel in India…? Imprecise? Is it a process of approximation? No, any word that scorns this travel is missing the heart of the matter, it is missing the syncopation that is dictated not by a metronome but by an emotional pulse that arrives precisely when it is supposed to, it is missing the …
A repeated word or phrase, spoken aloud or under one's breath, is a mantra — the thought and sounds made again and again, until the sound itself empties of sound, and the sense becomes empty of sense. The boundaries of the word are broken, and the meaning of it, revealed deep within the sound and beneath your …
I guess if a circle doesn't close, it is incomplete…? Does it lose strength? Does it deflate, or allow bad winds to invade its beautiful core? Still, you run a finger in the sand, tracing the outline of the sun, or the outline of the moon, you begin with a point at the tip of …
Having finished my early yoga, I come from the room and enter the hotel courtyard, and the senses, which have fed me quietly throughout the night, fill with the picture of a Goan morning: crickets still sing in the cool temperatures, while a wide variety of birds welcome the day in conversation… saying what? All …
Yesterday’s motorcycle tour of the closest beaches was such a success, I decided to hold onto the bike one more day, and take a morning trip further north, toward the ruins of the old Portuguese fort at Cabo-de-Rama, up past Agonda Beach. Manny had promised a phone call home at nine AM this morning, and …
Some of the things we thought would work well actually did… and others we learned on the way. Here are a few thoughts we'd like to remember next time around. If any are useful to you, bravo! There's some wisdom well won. Nail scissors Useful for trimming all kinds of things besides your nails… Flip-top toothpaste Small plastic jar fits …
Today we took to the roads of Goa; perhaps a risk to lives and limbs, except we promised ourselves to stick to the smaller roads. On "Main Street" — I had tongue-in-cheekily named it that after our first stroll among its multitude of vendors and restaurants, only to find that it is, in fact, …
A few thoughts on what has been less effective — in the practical sense — on this extended study tour to tropical climes, and which I would gladly let go on any return visit. While mostly personal preference, a little reality check for future travelers to India… Water Filter/Iodine Bottled water is available almost everywhere, …
Just before dawn only a few roosters have roused themselves — or never went to bed — and with most humans still in bed, I can hear the falling of the surf away here inland. Yoga is sweet and quiet, Manny still in bed; then a quiet seat in the restaurant gazebo and time to …
Just as you move into the body with awareness to free yourself from it — to no longer identify so completely with the physical body that your Self is veiled — just so with awareness you can lean into your thoughts, become intimate with the ways in which your mind works. Seeing your thoughts …