However it was the first time my heart reached out to so many others.
With a headline like that, I bet you weren't expecting something maybe in a different vein from the topic of this post. For me, it's remembrance straight through to February 20th when I return back to the states. And I have been amazed by the realness and richness of my conversations here the last two days. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. Kai was finally reunited with his father who came home this past Monday. Check out the modern healing devices on the altar pictured in photo. Hug your loved ones and enjoy each moment of your holidays. He's not trying to couch this to make himself come across better whatever better means. Teams will camp in the village and will provide for themselves without in any way burdening the community.
Signing off from gorgeous and remarkable Phi Phi, Thailand. This post doesn't even begin to do justice to our conversation. But the oral history of the sea gypsies of Thailand, the Moken, know it as laboon, or 'the wave that eats people. Saturday today is National Children's Day in Thailand. When I get back home I'll write a longer piece that weaves in Tan's life. He carries a giddy Thai girl around the umbrella stand laden with hanging T-shirts. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day, if you are so inclined, I invite you to spend a brief moment in silence and radical stillness for all the disaster victims of the past twelve months across all the world. The full Moon too is a teacher of illuminating darkness if you allow Her to speak to you. And it doesn't really matter if there are superparades or even any parades at all this year.
Composure? Composure went out the door after the tsunami. Because some group of horn players will grab their instruments and they will march Down the Avenue because that's what they do, and I, for one, will follow. One by one they drift up into the air and trail into a stream of giant fireflies in the languid air. But in the last few years I've yielded more to interdependence. We often forget that the bodhi tree a type of fig, sometimes more so than the Buddha, is the great teacher of enlightenment and that the tree is oblivious to who sits underneath it.