The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft aglay. -Robert Burns This quote as written by Robert Burns and later quoted by John Steinbeck, describes how I felt when rainy season hit Thailand early. I knew the rainy season wasn’t normally for another month and thus the risk of flooding and excessive rains [...]
It’s decision time here in Thailand. The monastery with the best dates and a meditation program that best fit to my level of practice has now been affected by the flooding. The rain is supposed to start letting up tomorrow, but the question remains if I try to get down there and take my chances. [...]
When I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love” a couple months before leaving on this trip, it wasn’t hard for me to find some parallels between her adventures and what mine were hopefully going to become. Some of the more obvious ones include that we both would go to Indonesia and Italy, and I planned [...]
I keep asking myself what I am doing. I’m as inflexible as can be and love to talk, both of which will present just a couple of many challenges I will face at my upcoming monastery stay. Several days ago, the fact that I’m going to try to do this monastery stay became much more [...]