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| HOMEcoming!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 06.17.04 (6:27 am) [edit] |
What up people?
I have just returned from a long intense journey!!!
Its been a while since I have been near such modern things because I bought a motorcycle and went deep into the wilderness with my yoga/reiki teacher/ dear friend --- seeing the mts on a bike I can not begin to explain---climbing some enormous mountains on some 10 mile treks into some remote Himalayan Indian villages--I will try to brief you on the ineffable....
I have seen where the storybook shepards and wild horses and their milk suckling colts live and have travelled and lived amidst hundreds and hundreds of goats, sheeps, buffallo, cows and yaks and have eaten holy prasad with the shepards at temples in hailstorms 3000m up high..
I have stayed with families in the villages and lived their way of life for 30 days, -- I have become part of families and a lifestyle in a poverty of almost all of the material things I have seen my true dependance on in shame most times, Yet families unpoor really, for they are very rich in love and warmth and virtue and charity and kindness and ofcourse FAMily...
I have lived a rough and tough life, exposed my soft and weak American-ness and hopefully uprooted the softened bruised parts- the too sweet of the fruit...
I feel as if if I have travelled back into the 1900's and now being back in McGleod Ganj- I feel spacy and amazed as if I came back to the 1960's --and soon America will blow my mind as if I am stepping into the future 2050....!
Its so funny how when I first came to this little city McGleod Ganj---- I spent many days uncomfortable without the modern things I am used to, street cleaners, and less cowshit and smelly garbage and pollution, a shower head with hot water instead of a low hanging faucet no sink or mirror and dirty buckets of cold water IF the water is running that day to keep clean, normal foods that don't make my stomach flip with spices or icky things- less eyes of dirty men glaring at you or hawking you to buy something, a clean bed that won't give you bed bug bites, a clean floor where you can take your shoes off without leaving footprints... on and on - this is India right. Learning to adapt to this lifestyle in this city was hard enough without many things--- but now that I have come from even deeper rough and tough Indian life in these remote villages- its amazing how conmforting this city is to my body or mind or what I can't figure because I keep thinking - DO I REALLY need these things? WHY?....
I traveled back to the 1900's --the way life used to be and we had to live with out all the cushy things most can't live without- Things as simple as chairs and bathrooms forget toiletpaper, and tampons, and chimneys, and telephones... and as serious as a nearby water supply--- think about life without a fridge, without plumbing, without a toothbrush, without ... although these mts gush forth water at many amazing places from such heights- women and young girls travel for miles or so away from the well or fall with huge metal pots on their heads 2 times daily to keep the house for the men...
I have made close friends with these amazing strong Indian women and their families- such a strong people are these people of the mountain - displaying a strength I have never seen humans capable of til now-
and I struggled greatly in my weaknesses that surely surfaced and I carved in my heart and soul what the modern world has lost
-- and I reveled in some of my strengths to make it up some 10 mile steep day trek climbs deeper into the villages where no cars can even go due to the mt's untameability, and reveled in some of the things I could quietly offer in my demeanor and emanation of much love and peace to the people, the only language I could speak to them with out knowing their mother tongue....
Seeing even motocars again when I first surfaced back out of the mountains was a shock and silly sign of humans and their development ...what things we do!
SO ... now I am here in McGloed Ganj and on June 19th- in just 2 days! I head to Delhi for a day and then will take a plane from Delhi to Bombay on the 21st, and then Bombay to NEW YORK NEW YORK on the 23rd of June....I have a long 4 days of travel ahead of me before I enter NY -- Is NY ready for me I wonder? AM I READY for NY???
I miss everyone so so much - my amazing journey is slowly moving closer to home-- -- NEXT WEEEK!!
Let me know where you are at and how u r because I hope I am coming to meet you all soon- !!!
Much love and peace to you all....!!
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