so as you know i've been working with tejas on repairing and altering the tent platforms in order to accommodate the new tents. we've been a team of two, and recently were joined by two other karma yogis here. there is another character at the ashram called vashishta who is a real type-a personality: very independent, sometimes closed-minded, ( Read more... )

well the hand is feeling a bit better today. i've been really resting and in the meantime treasuring the restful time. the day's here are so active and packed, i don't usually get much, if any, time just to vegetate. everyone has been trying their various natural remedies on my thumb and maybe it's working because it's much less painful and the ( Read more... )

i've been working the last week or so on upgrading the tent platforms at the ashram to accommodate the new tents that are being given to the staff. we brought own own tent and since we're here only for three months we won't get a platform. anyway today i hammered my thumb instead of the nail and it really really hurts. mentally it's completely ( Read more... )

today is very hot here. the temperature has been going down though, and i think that soon it will be very comfortable for the winter. it's feeling good that i'm going to be skipping part of the harsh canadian winter. i do love it very much, and actually i'm really going to miss snowboarding this year. partly i feel that i have to heal the part of ( Read more... )

i deleted my lj account a while back because looking through the old entries i realize that i really had fallen out of many of the things i used to write. also since my old username was the one i used everywhere online, and the online community had become so close-knit, i felt that i needed to get rid of my affiliation to it. i went to wordpress ( Read more... )