Well, I am in Toronto right now on my way to my training in Quebec. In two weeks I leave for Sri Lanka. I am so excited, especially now that I know that my soul sister Andy and I will be arriving the same day- what a crazy universe!
Getting together with Hugh and Fiona (Graeme’s parents) also got me really energized because looking through their scrap book gave me visuals that can now accompany my imaginings. I have been reading Lonely Planet & Discovery Channel books on Sri Lanka but am trying to be careful. I want the books to inspire ideas and questions not to create any expectations about how things will be. Having no clue what to expect is what makes the experience a journey.
A lot of what I saw and heard did remind me of my trip to Costa Rica & Panama, but I think the devastation in this country is going to be huge as the entire South coast was so greatly affected by the Tsunami.
I just read Eat Pray Love and found it really resonating with me. Elizabeth was looking for Balance between Pleasure, Divinity, and Balance. I’ve also often found myself in a quest for balance. In this case a strike between Presence and Action...
Accept vs. Change
Feel vs. Do
I do not expect to have some great epiphany about how to live life while I run in tea fields and meditate on salt drenched sand.
Three months will probably be a struggle.
But in the end I will hopefully come out with a fresh sense of balance, derived from learning not to fight my intellectual mind’s nammering but to wrap the thoughts up in a blanket of compassion under which I might just discover mind and heart together.
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