Just got word that the temperature in Minnesota is -13.\u00a0 Well, now.\u00a0 That’s different than the 73 and sunny here.<\/p>\n
Mario says the traffic in Bangkok bugs him, too.\u00a0 Traffic in Bangkok is like rain on Mt. Wai’aleale, there’s always too much for most of us.\u00a0 If I didn’t blame myself, I’d blame Bangkok traffic for my ruptured Achilles.<\/p>\n
Am reaching a new place, hope I find that it sticks.\u00a0 My goal is to have no goal.\u00a0 My ambition is to have no ambition.\u00a0 I want to follow the flow of the chi in my life, go with it wherever it runs, let life lead life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alan Watts has this book, The Watercourse Way.\u00a0 I mentioned it yesterday.\u00a0 The tao is the movement of heaven and the movement of heaven, exhibited in temporary conditions surrounding us, is th way.\u00a0 As we adapt ourselves to it, we blend with the season, the hour of the day, the time in our life, and other circumstances in which we find ourselves.\u00a0 This the way water runs down a mountain to the sea.<\/p>\n
Our life is a mountain stream.\u00a0 At the headwaters it is full of energy and rushes quickly over the rocks and around the bends, as it gets closer to the ocean its bed widens and it travels more slowly around the bends until, spent, it merges with the ocean, our mother and our primal home.<\/p>\n
Also, the waves do not quit.\u00a0 They keep coming back, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, but always there, always caressing the shore.\u00a0\u00a0 The wave is the ocean\u00a0 as lover,\u00a0stroking the flanks of Gaia.\u00a0 It is this persistent loving that the Hawai’ans have named Aloha.\u00a0 It is a condition to which we can conform ourselves.\u00a0 Perhaps it is not temporary.<\/p>\n
Another, slower workout today, this time toward Poipu.\u00a0 As I hiked, there were whales at play, a couple breaching.\u00a0 They come here for the reasons many tourists do, warm water and sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just got word that the temperature in Minnesota is -13.\u00a0 Well, now.\u00a0 That’s different than the 73 and sunny here. Mario says the traffic in Bangkok bugs him, too.\u00a0 Traffic in Bangkok is like rain on Mt. Wai’aleale, there’s always too much for most of us.\u00a0 If I didn’t blame myself, I’d blame Bangkok traffic … Continue reading The Way Water Runs Down A Mountain<\/span>