I realize I haven't posted yet this week. This is for two reasons: one, I had a post that I wanted to do as a video/spoken word, which will take a bit more time than usual.
Two: I've been quite busy in the last few days, so haven't had time to finish it. So, for now I'll just let you know what I've been busy with and leave it at that. My writing buddy, always comments that I get too heady and abstract and need to ground things in actual life events. So here are some life events.
Let's start with that: my writing buddy is going on hiatus. They don't want to be writing something every week anymore, so that's the end of that. It was useful while it lasted. Though it would have been even better as a larger group. Does anyone know of a writing group that I could join? I can call in via Skype or something like that...
Perhaps I should just search for such groups on craigslist or something. But that sounds like a lot of work, and I don't know what I'd be getting in terms of fellow writers, and as it is I'm quite busy. Why? Lets continue on to the next item on the list:
I'm planning a trip to India. Yes, another one. No, I didn't have plans for it until one of the Sai Baba center members basically insisted I sign up for it (reminding me I could always cancel afterward). Which I'm happy they did. There was an application deadline for the world youth conference that is the ostensible reason I'm going to India, and after I had time to think about it, I decided that I did want to go. All well and good. However, the universe seems to be dropping me hints that I should head to a certain specific holy cave way the heck on the other end of India. Which means another plane trip, and an 8-hour car ride. And then I was planning on spending a few days at the layover point in France and visiting a family friend, but I don't know if flights from the new airport I would be flying out of have a layover at the same place. In any case, this makes for an extremely complicated itinerary.
I need to make these plane reservations right away, because the price is going up every day. I need to make a whole bunch of decisions, none of which I have sufficient information on, and there's no way to get that information, as far as I can tell.
I will probably start that, after this post (so don't expect it to be well edited.) Start, but not finish, because I need to get back to New York this afternoon because I've said I would get to the Thursday evening meetings early, to help people set up. (The women always get their early, but the men not so much, and they need heavy things moved.)
I am at my parents because I needed to move a bunch of stuff from my Queens apartment to my parent's house, in preparation for being away for longer stretches of time. My plants, my alter where I pray and meditate in the mornings. And I packed up most of my other stuff as well, since I'm spending most of my time at home these days, and why not make it easier for myself when I have to move the rest out at the end of my lease. So yesterday I took a train out to my parent's house, drove my dad's car back into the city, finished packing stuff into boxes, loaded up the car, drove it back, and passed out asleep as soon as I could. Today I unloaded the car, moved most of it into the basement, some upstairs, did laundry, set up my alter, watered my plants, started sorting stuff, and then, when I stopped for lunch, realized I was exhausted and decided to do some non-physical stuff for a while. But now I'm traveling back to the city in a few minutes. Woooooooooooo!
This is a lot of traveling, and in the past I'd have been a bit frustrated at the seemingly wasted time, but I'm currently reading a book called "The Pilgrim's Progress" and implementing a spiritual practice that the writer of this journal talks about. Namely, constant prayer (really a form of continuous meditation.) Which is awesome! Now, any time I'm having to "wait" for something, instead, I can be doing spiritual practice. My time goes from being wasted to being utilized in the best possible way. This is very handy since it looks like I'm going to be in for a LOT of travel this summer. Starting basically last week and ending... maybe the end of August. Or maybe not.
OK. Facts! Delicious Facts. Actually, these facts may be a bit dry and in need of some mayo or a pickle to spruce them up, but there is no time for that. I need to leave for the train in 15 minutes and I still need to figure out what stuff I need to bring back into the city, pack it, and eat a gelato popsicle.
Jeranimo!
Isaac
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