The landscape of the shoreline of the Ganga keeps changing, changing as the water levels go down. The river at low season is really different from when i first got here at the end of monsoon (which would be the equivalent of spring run off in Canada). So it makes it interesting to see the new rock formations and beaches that are now appearing. Sometimes when i stop to take the time to notice the change. It is so beautiful. i plan to spend more time at her shores soon.
Today my last friends from the ashram are leaving. everyone is finally moving on. People from the teaacher training had been leaving gradually over the past month and now the last few are gone today.
And now i find myself in a senior position, all of a sudden, at the ashram. I am the key player/teacher. How bizarre! The key non-Indian teacher, that is. Everyone else staying behind with me of the staff are all Indian and i love them like family. When new arrivals/guests come to the ashram, I am the person they are going to look to to know what to do and how to act and how everything runs around there. How did this happen? So organically. As i said, my teacher and his wife went back to Canada, so now things are very quiet.
But I am happy to teach even if I have only 3 students, or one student. It is all wonderful experience and blessed opportunity for me. Its just very astonishing to realize that i am playing such a key role of setting example, setting the mood, and holding the energy of the ashram.
I enjoy it.
I enjoy that I wake up at 4 or 4:30 everymorning with no alarm clock, just alert and excited to start the day. I shower, I pray, I practice and plan my lesson for the day, then I have breakfast in the dining hall. Its all very enjoyable. Then usually after breakfast I practice my flute.
The days, between noon and 4 are getting quite hot so one tends to lay low during this time. Mornings and evenings you can be more lively and go do internet or email or whatever without getting too wiped out by the heat.
2 more months and its going to be so unbelievably hot. I am going to really be wondering about my sanity come June when it is 45 degrees in delhi and 100% humidity. It will make it such a refreshing arrival in vancouver airport. I can't wait to go to the beach.
I kind of wish I had seen more of India, beaches, mountains, temples etc. while I was here, but i know that my sole purpose and focus was to do what I have done and so I don't regret it at all. I know i will be coming back to mother India and will have other opportunities to explore her wonders then.
well, i suppose that is all for my thoughts of this morning. No exciting tales to spin... just peace, peace, peace.
love ang
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