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Hello my loves,
It's been a while.
As to what I've been up to in the time I've failed to post, I've been globetrotting as usual, this time funding myself entirely. I last wrote from Taiwan, where I'd just landed to work for a bit...
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| Plumeria/Frangiapani: My favourite (Indian) flower.. |
For the autumn before that I was in Auroville, one of my homes around the world, a place where I identify with many more people than anywhere in the US. In January, after presenting a paper I wrote at my first academic conference (which was quite funny overall and surely was confirmation to me that I DO NOT want to go into academia) it was time to leave India after nearly eight long months. My visa was only for six, so it was quite the bureaucratic scuffle getting out of there, but I was SO relieved to leave when I did. Now I have a huge yearning to go back. Mais, c'est la vie; these love/hate relationships in a world of duality prove quite taxing!
Anyway, I headed back to Taiwan at the end January to work, and the morning after I arrived, the owner of the company promoted for my contract period me to manage teams of teachers, design curriculum and train new staff. Sweet. More pay, less work, and no energy-draining days of endless teaching. The plan for Taiwan was actually to move there and set up a life for 2-3 years.. but when I arrived my lil' isle was far too cold for my lifestyle. Unlike Japan or Korea or even China, Taiwan doesn't have indoor heating. When it was 9 C outside, it was 9 or less inside. My yogic breathing & body-temperature-regulating techniques are just not yet that impactful. Landing in Taiwan I felt a sense of, yes I want to live here, but no, now is not precisely the time. Maybe I detected some shoulder-shrugging from the tectonic plates beneath my feet. So, I worked the weeks of my contract, and the day after I was done, I boarded a flight to Thailand.
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| Thailand February 2011 |
Summer-salting into Thailand, I stood up and found myself on the backpacker's trail, fell out of my lifestyle routine and down a hole of inner frustration. I even tried to hang by the branch of a tropical fruit tree and maintain fruitarianism (part of the epic lifestyle I choose), but moving every 1-3 days didn't allow for easy transport of the mass quantities of fruit I'm required to eat.
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| Kat and me in Thailand |
Once I reflected on the fact that now was a time when I really wanted to stop moving my bum - hopping around as I have been for the past 4-5 years, and I was amidst backpackers: doing the opposite of staying put- I knew it was time for a break. Giving into parental pleading, I find back in the home nest (though I'd never been to my parents' place in Florida before...) I have time to think, practice, be, breathe and plot my next step. After spending a month in my parents' new snowbird home in Florida and now sneaking into a taste of summer-in-Ohio, I'm headed to the East Coast to spend summer with some dear friends.
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| Mom, Dad & me at a friend's wedding, April' 11 |
My next stop will hopefully be a place where I can stay for a year or so, make a home nest, heal and relax. I need to be in a place with a strong, progressive, loving community. I'm searching Master's programs in a number of different fields, and short of offering any lofty prospects, I'll stop here!
For the first time in my life, I don't know what I'll do next... Luckily I do know the life I want to lead, so all shall flourish. The issue, clearly, is that I want to learn, see, think and feel too much for any one soul. There are just too many options to choose.
The Universe is limitless.
Love + Light forever, unconditionally,
apd
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