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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Home

Alright, I'm home. Home is greatly under-rated, a lot of the time, especially by me. It feels so good to be home. To just lay around the house and cook and clean and... sleep in my own bed (aaaaaah, so comfortable). Family, friends, everyone is being so sweet and i am so happy to see everyone again. I love this honeymoon period, when you first get home, and you are so grateful and appreciative of everything and everything is new and wonderful. One of the great things about going away from home for a long period of time is it makes you really appreciate the simple things about your life, and all the gifts and.... luxuries.

Still a bit of jetlag. Still waking up in the middle of the night, bright eyed and bushy tailed. Still crashing in the middle of the afternoon with eyes i can't keep open. Today brother and i went snowboarding. Last day of the season that the ski hill was open. Snowed HARD while we were there, it was awesome.
Slush cup was going on. very funny. That is where they build a big water pit with slush floating around in it... a moat of sorts, and then the idea is that people have to ski or board down and try to ride across the top of the water to the other side.
No one makes it, of course, and volunteer fire fighters are there in the water in dry suits to catch you when you land on your face in the freezing water and help you to get your board or skis off and get you out of the water before you freeze to death. Very good idea sun peaks. how to keep the event safe. and then... and then there is a hot tub, donated by sun peaks aquatics, for all the competitors to soak in after they get out of the slush pit, boots and clothes and all, goes into the hot tub soup. hilarious. oh, and they are all in costume too. so there was like ... you know.... someone in a bird costume, an rcmp officer, a guy in a suit, a guy in a purple one piece, someone else dressed as super man, another as jesus... all in there, fully clothed, boots on. what a picture, i wish we would have gotten a picture.
man, the things we do for entertainment in this country.
haha
good to be home.

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me and madras at the Regent Park after about 23 hours travelling from canada

footage from my first night in Chennai (i prefer the name "Madras" but they changed it to Chennai, i don't know why. Madras suites it so much better, and sounds better. i think that madras is reminiscent of the seaside fishing village it probably once was, while Chennai reflects its more modern identity with business and technology. needless to say, i got no sleep during my first night here.... as you can see from the dazed look in my eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PiuQi4XqKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y62il8aqiT0
crazy technology!!!
never thought i would be so technologically advanced in my correspondence. Big change from those first letters i sent from France, back in the early nineties!!

ashram crew

we all headed up river to a couple significant sacred spots. One of them was this cave here, where this picture was taken. Traditionally many sages and saints secluded themselves in caves in the Himalayas to meditate undisturbed. The cave stays warm and dry all year round. (cool in summer). It is a nice cave with very nice vibrations, due to the occupants continuous meditation there over the years and attainment of samadhi, the ultimate and final state of peaceful self-realization. Beautiful energy there.