29-31 May

Date: 31 May 2011

Location of accommodation: Galle, Fort

Activities: watching Rurounin Kenshin: writing up ethics review comments; cleaning room; tai-chi; getting take away for lunch in my scuba mask container.  Talk with Rose on Skype 29 May, chat with Christina on FB 31 May.  Not surprised by my feelings for Christina still, because I think they are foundational for my life, but major butterflies in my stomach chatting with her.  Sat for minutes neither one of us saying anything, just feeling, connecting.  This process of overcoming my fears is a long one. On 30 May went to take photos around Fort, went to nautical museum.    

Money spent: 1000.00 Rs. Room

                          250.00 Rs. Lunch

                          550.00 Rs. Museum

                          125.00 Rs. breakfast

Special experiences:  Found Rurounin Kenshin on 29 May, 2011.  This show is having a decided impact on my life.  Began to feel the pureness of Tai-Chi for the first time.

Insights: the game.

Thought of the day: stay true to your pure heart, ever more true, so that you can move from your belly.

Photo of the day:

Poem of the day:

“To he who walks my shadows:”

In the annals of my extrapersonal history,

The halls of my hyper-catholic soul,

I had to choose between beating you at the game

Or helping you to get over playing it.

I have tried to choose both,

And it has torn me in two moving this way. 

The water, the teams,

The water and the teams.

The water and the teams

And a pure, pure heart.