August 24 2024 Yoga, landscaping, and dance, Eat, Pray Love book

 

Nice Japanese breakfast prepared by fumiko.  Yoga in the morning and then landscaping at Marvista.  I was almost too tired to go dancing, but  I decided to to the Swing SCT.  It was a pretty fun night.  I danced with several people I haven't seen in a while.   

I have been listing to the book Eat, Pray Love.  I should have listened to this prior to going to Bali, but since I  am still processing those thoughts in my mind it is good to listen now.  I was struck by how the women at Bali trees had all read the book.  In someway they were looking for some spiritual release from their life's issues.  One reason we all went to the see the Shaman.  When the book was written, the writer though being in mid 30s is old, and an older attractive man is in his fifties.  It seems like I was in a situation where the women were in their 40s and I was the older man in his sixties.  Funny.  I really wasn't there to find anyone, just to focus on exercise, sleep, and moderate food.  The conversations with the people was great.  I loved that so much.   The book also talked about how poor Bali was, and how people do what every they can to get money, but not exactly in a dishonest way, but in a desperate way not telling the complete truth  I understand those two things about my experience now.  It seems like I didn't get it while I was there.