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Things I will need to get used to in Brazil
- The surface area of my butt exposed in a Brazilian bikini is roughly the same size as the rest of my bikini. This is despite Thiago’s efforts to find me a bikini bottom with the most coverage available in Brazil for Christmas. I am now wearing a Brazilian “Grande” sized bikini bottom which despite being a US / Euro Medium makes me feel like a baby whale. (more…)
King Pigeon of Penn Ave.
Well this post is really about something else entirely but an extraordinarily handsome pigeon stole all my attention on the way home from my bus adventure today and simply MUST be mentioned. Wow – for years now Tuxedo Pigeon of Brighton was the most magnificent pigeon Id ever seen, but today I met the father of all magnificent pigeons – King Pigeon of Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. He walked around with a velvety robe, but the most amazing part was his neck. It was puffy and the widest I’d ever seen from which I imagine he emits a deep burbling mating call that only a King of Pigeons could make and it was smothered lavishly in the most dazzling peacock colours in a waterfall of perfect rainbow feathers. Wow! I stopped walking and just stood there admiring him, then noticed his elegant Lady Pigeon. A fine choice she was, but as I walked past he stood his ground, checked out my boots, while she flurried off hastily. King Pigeon was not about to make way for me. No. I hope to see his fine feathers again some day soon. (more…)
Shape Shifters
Every day things around me seem progressively less and less real and more and more dreamlike. I have moments where I just stop and stand absolutely still, forgetting completely where I was going and not caring… these moments dont frighten me anymore, and instead I’m just enjoying the curious moment where I feel like I’m suspended by belief alone that the floor below me is there, about to watch the whole circus of ‘reality’ around me peel away and realise its all an elaborate dream we’re all participating in, and at some deep down level maybe we all know it. We’re all so good at deceiving ourselves with the grandest of illusions about ourselves that everyone else can plainly see, so why not an illusion of ‘reality’ as well? (more…)
My Maggie Mae
I totally forgot to update with news that I GOT THE BANJO! She is so beautiful, with mother of pearl inlays and the most crazy sexy twang. I still remember the feeling I had when I first got my hands on her and was walking free down the road, in the rain towards the bus stop.
I haven’t been that excited since Christmas as a kid, it was OVERWHELMING me so much that a squeal burst out of me that sounded something like, “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!HEE HEE HEEE!” which I couldn’t seem to stop, like some kind of deranged leprechaun. (more…)
Black Cat Magical
I’ve been struggling to cope with a lot of strange and uncontrollable feelings for many weeks now. More emotions are surfacing, strange perceptions and instincts, but my ability to express them is numb at the same time. Not able or wanting to write and when I do it doesnt feel right. Energetically I’m feeling the huge shifts happening in the world, evolving at an ever crazy speed towards some unknown unfathomable point coming up soon. And my love and I are drifting ever further away, unreachably far now, while strangely I feel I haven’t been drifting or moving at all… just floating, without really knowing what I’m waiting for or where to go. And grieving him. So much grieving. Yet I’ve felt a knowing under all of it that the path is going to slowly reveal itself, like a gift in almost too many wrappings. I’m stuck at the bit right a the beginning, picking at the celotape wishing I had fingernails, not wanting to ruin the perfect wrapping… afraid of what it might be under all of the paper, hoping I’m ready for it.
About a week ago while I was listening to this song I suddenly felt a bolt jolt through me – “I am going to learn to play the banjo! And I’m going to learn to play this song.” I was so excited about this! For days. I dont really know why! It was also the only thing that seemed to bring me out of the glum. But banjos are expensive and I have other more urgent financial obligations right now. “That’s OK! If I cant afford one, it will come! Just keep thinking about the banjo.” And so I have… (more…)
Learning To Be Alone
Wow, this idea is spot on with something I’m really trying to work on but couldn’t find the words for…
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you but it is not. It is an essential truth. Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core into the other person without becoming dependent on the other, reducing the other into a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know if the other leaves they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness can not be taken by the other because it is not given by the other.
Then why do they want to be together? It is no longer a need, it is a luxury. They enjoy sharing, they have so much joy they would like to pour into somebody. They know how to play their life as a solo instrument. The solo flute player knows how to enjoy his flute alone and if he comes and finds a solo tabla player, both will enjoy being together and to create a harmony between the flute and the tabla.”
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
It’s interesting how togetherness should be the luxury. For years I have lived as if togetherness was essential and time alone was a luxury. While I am a creature that loves to cuddle and to share daily life and discoveries with someone special, and while I know that nothing will ever change that, at the same time… I know I had it all the wrong way around. I know this because when I really examine things, I wasn’t happy.
Crazy Story
So. Here I am, still a bit shaky, sitting at a desk in a cheap motel in Pittsburgh that smells like wet dog soaked in ashtray. But after the last 4 days it’s a tiny victory. (more…)
Inner Guidance System Calling
Returning to Ometepe Island was not the homecoming I thought it would be. It felt very homely the last time I was here and I imagined it would feel even more so returning, but instead, I’ve been feeling increasingly alien. And though I feel I can make myself belong by putting down roots and being stubborn about it, at the same time I feel I really don’t belong here in the most natural sense. I’m just not feeling it inside. (more…)
And so our life of travel officially begins…
Wow, what an unexpected day, travelling to El Salvador, through Nicaragua and Honduras. Not that it wasn’t planned, but the things that happened I’d have never anticipated. For example, the El Salvadorian brothel. I may have been on mushrooms the whole time it all seemed so strange. (more…)
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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