Thursday, September 30, 2010
And the winner is...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Paths of Service?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Woody Allen interview
Q.How do you feel about the aging process?
A. Well, I’m against it. [laughs] I think it has nothing to recommend it. You don’t gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you’d trade all of that for being 35 again. I’ve experienced that thing where you wake up in the middle of the night and you start to think about your own mortality and envision it, and it gives you a little shiver. That’s what happens to Anthony Hopkins at the beginning of the movie, and from then on in, he did not want to hear from his more realistic wife, “Oh, you can’t keep doing that — you’re not young anymore.” Yes, she’s right, but nobody wants to hear that.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Always Maintain a Joyful Mind
A little thing called malaria
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
When in doubt, hit the road
Monday, September 13, 2010
Where do I come up with these things?
Still, I will need to do something, and soon. Next weekend is the retreat at SMC and the following weekend is the Grand Canyon hike. After that, something, somewhere.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Fallback Plan
The craziness continues
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Crazy
And another thing
No closer to decision
alternatives
1. Spend the fall at Shambhala Mountain Center (looking unlikely)
2. Enroll in cooking school (Not at this time, I think)
3. 1 month volunteer/TEFl; back Thanksgiving; dhatun (most likely at this point, if most expensive)
Friday, September 10, 2010
what next?
I have to make a decision soon about something to do this fall. I tooks like it will either be:
I. Cooking School
2. A month either volunteer or TOEFL class, 2 weeks travelling and then back to the States for Thanksgiving or therabouts and then do a month dhatun. As for volunteering, we are looking at a minimum of $2,000 for the pgogram and at least $1,000 for the flight, mabye a little less for the TOEFL class, and then $2,000-$2,500 for the dhatun
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The Next Big Move?
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Groundlessness
Specificity
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The importance of passion
My classical guitar practice had been lagging/Almost painful some times to pick up the instrument/and slog through a boring exercise/ or a piece of music I didn't particularly care for/But then I cam across this seven part video lesson for Classical Gas/and have been playing a minimum of two hours a day/until my fingers are sore/It's important to follow these leads when you find them/and to realize the lessons they teach about other parts of our lives
Monday, September 6, 2010
Developments
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Do Over
There is something holding me back from travel right now. Something that says you do not have the energy to fling yourself around the world. I just want to stay in one place and grow strong. But can't stay here.
How things stand
It’s not that I don’t have ideas about what to do next. It’s more that they all strike me as crazy. One thing I have trotted out is the idea of spending three months at the Shambhala Mountain Center. They have not even returned my e-mail. I looked into renting a cabin at another retreat center for a month, but it was already taken. I am seriously considering spending whatever it takes so I can go and spend a month at the Shambhala Mountain Center. I seem to be unable to find anywhere to go for about a month on a spiritual retreat.
I am now thinking about a winter Dhatun at either SMC or Reggie’s Ray retreat center. This would be from about December 11th-January 8th. So, that would leave me three months. But I would probably feel compelled to spend from Thanksgiving and the first part of December in Tucson. Which leaves me from mid September to mid November. A good time to be in Greece. If I just hadn’t used them damn Delta miles to fly to Bangkok.
Now I find myself looking at international marathon schedules.
All I know is that I have to be out of here by the middle of September, which is a month longer than I initially planned