morning at the peacock

hiya blog readers, whoever's still with me. today was first day of the yoga with lino. almost all italians from lino's studio in rome and 2 fellow chicagoans, justin and bill. of course lino had to talk a little about who was missing this year, i assumeed everyone knew, but someone did not know. i would have hated to hear that news in that way. it's very hard for lino to even talk about it, anybody who knew her (gwendoline hunt), for that matter. lino has worked with her many years, in kovalam with her for 10 years (they took over from john scott who started the kovalam retreat, and gwen was one of his faithful students). i missed her so much. her picture in her famous pose, the one i always kept on my alter, of her in krounchasana was pasted on the wall in front of me below guruji's. i'm sure this will be an incredible experience anyhow cause i love lino so much, and his wife tina will be here for a couple weeks, but it's definitely not the same.
lino had a wonderful story for me yesterday about when him and gwen went to dhamma giri in igatpuri (where i am going to go for vipassana) and it gave me great insight into what to expect. coincidentally, this book i'm reading spent many chapters documenting her experience. all i can say is hardcore. not for everybody, but i'm gonna do it anyhow. however, lino told me sri lanka is quieter, less people, and i've always wanted to visit sri lanka. he says you sit on top of a mountain with 8 people, and at igatpuri, the main center, 250 in a room at once! and the rooms you stay in are all concrete just like a prison cell. however, i calculated the percentate 10 days is in one year, and it comes to about 3% of a year, so if ya think about it like that, i'll survive.

today back to trivandrum for another filum-today is tamil day-movie called manmadhan. next time movie will be malayalum, than telegu, back to hindi-in that circle cause i like em all. but my favorites have always been the tamil ones.

my hand is badly sprained and yoga is hard, but better than no yoga. i also got my monthly loose motions/puke fest last 2 days. no details beyond that, but this year, no fish here me thinks.

more soon-
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