ONE YEAR IN THAILAND

Today I have been in Thailand for ONE YEAR! WOW! WHAT A YEAR! Never did I think this year would be like this! I came here to do rehab…stay for 2-4 weeks then go on to India. Well, that didn’t happen at all! Yes I got my Indian Visa and flight, and the same day India announced them closing the borders in 3 days! I was “happily stuck” on an island with no Covid the next 4 months. I walked on the beaches, I had people to talk to and we created community around us..until there was only 5 of us left there. In the 4 months I was there I meditated, I learned that I could let go of the guilt of loving my time alone with myself. I didn't realized how much pressure I’d put on myself to be social. I listened to things on Youtube I never made time for. I learned a lot in my time there…I went to a shaman for my knee. It was a beautiful time…it had it’s challenges too…like the landlord that almost ran me over and said he would next time..having to go to the police about that. But over all it was a beautiful time there. My knee initially got better! I was able to walk farther and farther and then it go worse. I went from walking 1.5 hours to 10 minutes. At the end of the 4 months I was feeling called to go to Bangkok to get my knee checked out. A neighbor came to me the next day and said he was going half way to Bangkok that weekend and he wanted to know if I needed a ride. WOW! Talk about manifestation! It feels like last year was all about calling things in…like coming to Thailand, this ride and then what came next…..

I got to Bangkok and the 2nd morning here my ACL finished tearing. I found an MRI place and confirmed it…I manifested an amazing Physiotherapist that recommended me to the 2nd best knee surgeon in Thailand…a sweet little home that wasn’t too far from everything I needed to be at and within a month I was in surgery. I was taken care of for 15 days after surgery by complete strangers coming to my home…I thought when I made the request on the FB page I’d get 2 or 3 people a week..but nope…I got 1-2 people a day coming by bringing me food and hanging out with me! It was amazing! And so nourishing! The last 7 months have been all about healing, rehab, learning to walk again, jog, run and now hopping. And all the stuff that comes with it like the setbacks, and the celebrations of walking 2 hours…all of it! Walking to my favorite cafes were huge wins for me! Now I am working on unwinding my hip from walking differently. The past month has brought me the kink community…thank goodness! I needed connection…rope and community! I now have people I am getting to know…building friendships with. Last week I got to play with some of my new friends which was a breath of fresh air. This past month parts of me are waking up again. I started teaching my couples work again…which has felt incredible! And a student signed up on my Only Fans page unexpectedly as I had shut down all avenues to find it…but he had saved the link and I am now learning that I love writing about my intimate work…just not on social media as I always have to wonder if I will be taken down…and there I don’t have to worry about it…so I am opening more to the possibility of creating more content there! Which so far has been fun to do!!! It is exciting now…I actually woke up this morning in excited about what I could share there! As everything is allowed there!

I have spent most of this past year reflecting, listening inward and looking at my passions…I loving doing anything physical…anything to do with the body…I love gathering women…I love talking about intimate conversations…and now with the kink community it is opening so much in me! It hasn’t been the best year of my life…but I will say this, it has tested my trust of the Universe, of myself and of life. I will say I feel I have won the test, even if I break down in tears every month or so…as I miss dancing and hiking…I live mostly in trust, knowing I will heal and I will dance and hike again! I know this year here has opened my eyes to wanting to live outside of the country…next time by choice though. I have places I want to live now and I am excited to do that once the pandemic calms! And this year has gotten me to start teaching online…never did that before…such a wonderful thing to have technology to support me and everyone! So here’s to a year here and who knows how much longer!

One Year Traveling...Lessons on my path

Today it is 1 year and 2 weeks since I headed out of the country. My plan was to be gone a few months, maybe 6 maximum and then come back. I thought the plan was to go to Colombia, Cuba and Mexico….but with the hurricanes happened in Latin America, and Spirit calling me back to Asia, I went willingly, even though it was a surprise. The Universe had its own plan for me.

It took me to Bali and I was “supposed” to go to India…but it never happened. This was the place I was so excited about, as India is my love! I feel so connected to that country!

I turned 50 in the last year…I got my hair “accidentally” chopped off and I chose a cute haircut and fell in love it. I had a very sweet birthday gathering that was so full of love!

What a journey this year has brought me…9 months ago next week, 2 weeks into being in Bali and my ACL tore and my life changed. No more hiking, walking and exploring the way I was used to. I have gotten so many downloads…lessons, connections to Source showing me so many different things about myself, the gifts in this…and truly it has been amazing! It has brought me so many gifts.

I was on crutches for 4 months, when I went Thailand, my Physiotherapist and I agreed it would be better for me here..and let me tell you, the moment I landed here I was so happy. I loved it here from the first smell of it. I loved eating here, exploring here, everything here, besides the noise of the city in the area I was in was just wonderful to all my senses.

I was guided from within to go, not to Koh Phangan but to Koh Chang…in a week I got my Visa to India and planned to leave in another week to my beloved India, and later that night India said they were closing in 3 days. Everything was canceled…here I was, trapped on this beautiful island…I got off crutches with a day of being on Koh Chang…my armpits were grateful. My days were filled with beach walks, amazing dogs and cats to pet and watching the sunset at peace.

I meditated, listened to and watched things I never felt I had time for. And I learned that I love being with myself. I love people too. But I used to give myself such a hard time for not being around people more and then when we weren’t allowed all pressure was off. And then I could just enjoy me time and so I have been! And it makes my time with people even sweeter.

I have learned how many things I love in life…from music, to singing, playing instruments, teaching, things I love to teach verses things I do for money. I got to watch my mind and see what I got excited about sharing with the world and what I didn’t. What I would do for the heck of it and what I’d do only for money. It has been a powerful eye opener. As I’ve always said… “what you will do for free is what you are to being in life for your career, as you love it that much”.

I know more of what I am passionate about…and how all of these things I have done all my life.

I expect the next year of my life I will be putting all of these in place…depending on many things!

I found out only a week or two ago that my ACL is completely torn and my meniscus now is injured..yet still repairable. So now surgery is the only choice. Before I was told it would heal with physiotherapy, but that didn’t work.

So now I sit and wait…wait for the US to start doing surgeries again 3-6 months or choose to see if I can gather the funds to do the surgery …and all is on a time line as we might be getting kicked out of Thailand…so we’ll see.

It has been a spiritually connecting year…I’ve learned to be grateful for my spirit guides more, I am connected to them deeper, listening more…and feeling into so much.

This has been the year that I feel I am on or close to the other side of menopause (since I don’t have a uterus it is hard to know), but the hungry 40’s are gone and a grounded 50 year old is in her place. So I sit and connect in with everything and see what is next for me. And I am truly loving this grounded place..it is much less crazed and I don’t feel so out of control like a young teenage boy! Man oh Woman…the 40’s are a wild ride! And I miss them a little, though grateful to be calmer now! I can sleep much better now! So much to look forward to now.

I am on my path to putting my work online now…so that is a huge task I’ve been wanting for years now. And only now, having to be alone so much and not teaching in person is getting me on my bootie and starting it…so get ready!

I am the light of my soul, I am beautiful, I am bliss

My Quarantine Time

I keep hearing people having such a hard time with the quarantine and not being able to see friends and family.

My truth is I feel a sense of relief and joy. My reality is, I am an introvert, I am one of these people that thinks I want to be around people more, but then when I do, within a few hours I am ready for my alone time, even if I loved being around them…there are those few I could spend much longer periods of time with, but this is rare. I realize that this mandatory quarantine has given me a sense of freedom from guilt of those words “you should be doing this or that”. As really, I shouldn’t be doing anything now but staying in and do physical therapy. So that voice has calmed and now I get to do all the puttering I want to do without guilt.

You see, living in LA for so long without close community there, I have learned to be alone. It comes at a spiritual & mental price of wanting community and having that little voice saying “you should have people to call and say ‘hey lets hangout’” and it just isn’t so. With the traffic, so many needing to work so much to pay bills, distances sometime being far, and some just needing to cancel for work last minute, I stopped asking to connect after many years. Which was very sad for me being a small town girl that was used to having someone to call and see all the time. I still long for community everyday, even in my introverted space!

So being in quarantine is just like being at home, except without going hiking, to the gym and dance every week and going for my near daily cuppa chai. It is interesting to me how so many are so used to being around others and this is so hard for them…and this is so normal for me…with the bonus of no guilt or pressure to get out of the house more. Though I can relate to it when I switched from being a hair stylist to a massage therapist full time, my social life changed and I missed talking to and being around people, and then grew accustomed to it.

I am a traveler, but one that does my exploring when I am on the road, once I am stable, I don’t do a lot of exploring around where I live unless I have someone in my life that wants to and I am happy to go with them. But left to my own devices, I don’t like going out to explore places by myself when I am stabilized in one place, I like company for that. Though I will go to movies and hikes alone with not even a thought.

I have this voice that usually is telling me I am missing something, and maybe I am or maybe I am not. I am at peace when I am doing things I love.

Like lately I have been having all this free head space to watch youtube’s on things I want to learn about…like how to work with Zoom better in groups and breakout rooms, it is fascinating to me and makes me very excited to know more how to use it, or gathering information on Bill Gates and what he has done or tried to do and is doing right now for this planet…I never ever watched or read anything on this man and now he is utterly fascinating to me and grateful he is on this planet. If you haven’t watched the 3 part series on what he has done in his life on Netflix, please do. And now what he is doing with the virus, investing in our health and future blows me away. These are things I would not make time for or have internal space for before, as all I did was think about work, do work stuff, do some of my own day dreaming or I was out hiking, at the gym, walking on the beach, writing or dancing. But my weekly social time really consisted of going to dance once a week, and maybe seeing a friend or having a few calls a week when I was at home.
Yes, the virus has me concerned everyone’s health, and yet, I am loving going on a daily walk or two, and spending the rest of my time puttering and learning things I’ve wanted to learn or finding out what I want to learn about.

I have a list of things I want to do, it is overwhelming at times…like go through all my emails (I have over 10,000) and delete all I don’t need, continue my PAX program, make videos on many things, organize photos on my computer, make music, make playlists, sing, find new ways to workout my knee, write more, read a book, hang in my hammock more and read my book there, and continue to write on my inner and outer work, amongst many other things.

So I am not going through what others are going through…I do talk to someone on the phone, on Zoom or in person at least every other day if not a little every day, and that is more socializing then I have had in ages. It has filled me up and truth be told, I am more social now that I have been in months or years. That does make me happy, though my introvert says it is cutting into my alone time. And I just calm that voice and enjoy my time with my friends. As being with people or talking, especially cuddling (which I can’t do now), just 20 minutes a day fills me up!

I will say, I miss cuddling and hugs- it is what I miss most, I miss teaching live and in person, I miss my chai and my long hikes…other than that I am doing pretty darn well. I think I am in the perfect place for what is going on with the world. I just wish there could be more touch. And I have started eye gazing with friends online and even strangers who want to try it and I am loving it, as it is one of my favorite things and it fills me up too.

Big love, from this introvert!

Thailand, Healing, Change, the Virus, Quarantine, the Beach, Teaching now and so much more

Everyday things seem to change right now…sometimes by the day, sometimes by the hour. As I sit in my hammock, on my porch of my bungalow here in Thailand, in the morning the Thai news will come out with something, like “Tourists have to have $100,000 of insurance and a medical card to come in to Thailand”, by the afternoon they realize no one is going to give people that kind of insurance so they decide that isn’t going to work, but they don’t correct themselves. The next day they just make a new rule, so we never really know what the rules are, as they change from morning to night and are never quite informed.

Yesterday we were told we have to eat dinner by 7pm in restaurants as they close at 7pm. And we are to stay in between 7am and after 7pm. This morning I go online and find out that isn’t true. I find a new article saying that isn’t true but encouraging people to stay in their home from 8am-5pm, otherwise there might become a curfew and we may have to. Well, in my situation that is impossible. I have no kitchen, no way to feed myself. My landlord will fix dinner a few times a week, reminding us of what English food is like. And I wouldn’t want to eat that daily. I told him “if we are on lock down that means he and his wife would have to feed the guests”. His response was “nah, you will still be able to go to restaurants and pick up food”. This, coming from the man that keeps throwing dinner parties of 5-18 people even though they have announced NOT to do that and that it is illegal. I know he is finding a way to make money, but what if we all got ill or him and his wife, then what?

I went to bed the other night with a rowdy bunch of people at the dinner night at my place, I finally got to sleep. When waking up, the next day, after doing my physical therapy I am told one of the guys at the dinner had all these symptoms. He is self quarantining himself in the bungalow next to me. And while he is at is he is going to try and stop drinking, smoking and doing drugs at this time. The first night it sounded like a one man party in there…music, him on his phone and I am laying in bed wondering when his one person party my stop and why a night person was put next to me, the morning person. I finally said through my wooden wall, “can you please go to bed”. Within 5 minutes he was off the phone, music was off and I didn’t hear from him for about 16 hours. My landlord said “he might be dead in there for all we know”.

Let me say, that could have been true…it wasn’t, but it makes you wonder when the whole quarentine thing, how many might be dead and no one will know it until the smell drifts through the hall, or someone drops the mail and sees it hasn’t been picked up in weeks.

I walked down the beach today, everything has changed. All the beach loungers are gone, bungalows have been closed, no more massage people out there, and barely anyone out there. I have been staying positive with things, but the little thoughts creeped in of “what if stores close down? What if I am the last expat here? What if the restaurants close? What if my place closes?”

And then I look out to the ocean, I see the 2 people out there on paddle boards, the water still, and it takes my breath away. It is gorgeous! I wished I’d had my camera, but I don’t like leaving my things on the beach while swimming. I do my physical therapy and I finally lay down my sarong, hat and keys and go into the water…it is like swimming through liquid silk. The water is out, so it is very shallow, but deep enough to swim over the coral while it tickles my bum! It is a wondrous slice of heaven.

I walk back to my bungalow to start my Breathwork class. I have started teaching online, which I am loving….and I wonder what will happen in another month or two…I was already supposed to be home by now working again. I wasn’t expecting the delays of the knee injury for months or a virus stopping me from going anywhere for who knows how long. I am optimistic to put my classes online to support myself while doing what I love, supporting, inspiring and making a difference in peoples lives…all from the confines of their own homes!!!

Within this past month everything has changed…traveling has been stopped, dealing with extending Visa’s might be getting dangerous, as now there are lines of 200 people to get extensions…when really they could make it all online so we don’t have to take the 5-7 hours to go extend it and be around a ton of people.

Everyday I hear of someone that has it on the island, and a few of them have been to my landlord’s dinner parties or has had been near someone who has it by living in their same bungalow units. So it is getting close to home. I remain in most of the time, except my morning beach walk, my physical therapy, getting my 2 meals a day and hanging in my hammock on my porch…which is definitely 6 feet from anyone! Being outside feels so good, even if it is for only 1-2 hours a day.

What is interesting for me is that the introvert in me is so happy to have to stay in without guilt of “I should be doing something”, whereas my extrovert is like “lets go for a hike”. And the part of me that wants my knee to get better wants to hike too. As this past week there has been no progress, it is the first week with no forward progress, it is a little scary and I have to trust it will all be ok. Luckily today my walk got better, it is still stiff behind my knee. And it felt weak in my exercises, and that is what it is. I have an amazing view while I am doing my physical therapy and for the most part it is peaceful here. Even though there is no electricity as I write this.


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Bali, Thailand & Healing my ACL

What a trip this has been!

My trip started in Colombia…I loved it there…so much nature, people so nice…loved the hikes and waterfalls I got to see. And my last weeks there I was called to go to Asia, mostly to India, but a hint of Bali before I went there. Bali has never been one of my favorite places, even though it is gorgeous. Energetically it doesn’t jive with me. And I usually follow my guidance…so I went.

Two weeks after I got there I tore my ACL in the middle of the most profound silent meditation time I have had in years. More on that at the link at the bottom.

I had to stay in Bali for nearly 4 months healing. With the encouragement of my doctor to stay in Thailand if I wasn’t going straight to India (which is where I want to go but seems to crazy to heal), since I was coming here to renew my visa..eat some Thai food and get some Thai Fishing Pants. He recommended hikes and lots of ocean walks.

The truth is the moment I landed in Thailand something in me perked up, I got happy, joy filled me and I was thrilled to be here. I almost changed everything to go to India after getting my Visa…but after landing I realized everything in me was happy to be here. I ate Pad Thai, Curries, Mango with sticky rice…which if you have never had it, oh my, it is so good…they drizzle or sometime soak the rice in sweet milk…YUM! I got some of my clothes repaired from a woman on the street with her sewing machine…one thing I love about being in Bangkok….women set up right there on the street, no rent to pay, just give them your clothes to repair and within 1 hour to a day it is done for like $2-$3! And it is superb work!

I got my first massage there, not a Thai Massage…my body and leg wasn’t ready for it. I wandered into a store and I haven’t a clue what came over me…but as I looked around, I heard from within me “I could live here”. I haven’t been in love with Thailand since the first time I came here…and yet, this time, something was different. Maybe it is the low tourists, but the people are amazing…yes, they get upset with you go to haggle with them…but that is how they do it here.

I loved one woman who I haggled with…I went up to her and tried on a dress, and she gave me a high price, I gave her and extremely low price…she looked offended saying “no, too little..more please”. I said “how much”? She came back with “more”. I came up a little, she came down a little and then got angry. It was so amazing to see it as “an act”. After a bit I heard the words starting to come out of my mouth and they changed right before they flowed out… “Ok, I will give you…250 baht” I was going to just take her price, but then it changed in seconds and she looked at me and said “Ok, because you are so nice”. And I got it for a lower price!

After sitting with it, I chose to go down to Koh Chang…I haven’t been there in years…and Koh Phangan just felt to crazy…so off I went. They picked me and carried my backpack to the bus…then switched my bags to big bus and they put me in the front and off we went. Once at the port they took all of our bags out. Once they were done they helped me with my bag to the office…another man put my bag in the van…we sat around in the heat waiting for the ferry to arrive sweating and then loaded up, the van boarded the ferry and we were on our way! The ride over was gorgeous, even with the haze over the mountains…it felt like a since of spacious freedom to be going there.

Once on the island, it took me a bit to find the right place for me…the first place I got to help the sweetest little dog get to the vet from being attacked by monkeys at the hotel. The people who ran it didn’t care…but I pushed and they finally got the volunteer back to help. Amazingly enough the vet came out, took the dog in, gave him stitches and medicine for free and brought him back home. I gave him his meds until I just couldn’t stay there any longer…the people weren’t so kind. I talked to the vet and they got someone to come out and give the pup his meds daily! So sweet!

I got down to Bang Bao…now this place I like…I like a lot! Everyday waking up walking to the beach, having the beach nearly to myself, doing my rehab, swimming, exercises in the water…swimming. Watching my knee getting stronger every week. I can finally do the breast stroke and today I hopped on my leg for the first time! It is true…when one is happy where they are, they heal faster and better! I love it here! It is a bit hot during the day from 11-4pm…but the mornings and evenings are heaven. And it is away from all the craziness of the mainland.

I did think of going to the US, but with the virus it is just best to stay here until it passes…I can’t work there anyway. So I will wait until it blows over.

In the mean time I am writing, working my leg a bit more each day, meditating, getting downloads of even more about the life I am birthing and being with what life is wanting to offer me. And being blown away at how the body can do so much when given the time and right exercise to heal!

I finally decided this last week I’d go to India, the day my visa got granted I bought an airline ticket and the same day they announced shutting India down…so I am happily stuck in Thailand for the next month. Which truth be told…I feel safer healing here right now…it is calm, there are very few people and it is so peaceful. I will see what happens in the next month…come back to the US, or stay here or what. I wanted to go there, because I was called there but it is also so much cheaper to be there, which means I could stay there until I can come back and work again, which might be a few more months before being able to work again. I miss working! And I am loving it here too! So I will be here until it is time to move on!

If you want to read more about my healing journey the link is below, it will tell you everything that is happening. And if you feel called and are able to support me with a donation this will help me with healing, physical therapy, massages and getting back to walking better. I’d greatly appreciate it if you can help! And if can’t, that is ok too, if you can send good juju for healing, I’d love that too!


https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-heather-to-heal-amp-walk-again

Much bliss, Heather

Back in Bali

Being back in Bali is familiar and new all at the same time!
Familiar as I was here once before back in 2007 and I have lots of lovely memories and 2 very challenging ones which had me think I’d never come back here again. The biggest is the place is filled with black magic and being the sensitive being I am I can feel it, literally when they’d shout “Taxi, Taxi, Yes, YES, YES!” It was as it if it was going right into me. Later I found they had corded me to Ubud so I wouldn’t leave, as not many tourists were coming at that time with so many things like bombings, a boat sinking and things that kept the tourist away. So they were trying to keep the ones that were here…well I broke the bond the day I chose to go to Lombok…on the boat ride over I got far enough away that it was disconnected…I felt like I could breathe again and I wasn’t arguing with this 2nd voice in my head to stay and wanting to go.
The second thing is there are lots of wild dogs here, rabies is still a big thing here, which I didn’t know at that time. My first day out I was walking through the rice fields and these wild dogs surrounded me barking violently at me and if it wasn’t for a little old lady coming out and saving me, I don’t know what would have happened and it left a definite edge of fear in me with the animals here. Plus they don’t take care of the animals here…they are all scrawny, mangled and they fight each other all the time.

This time I feel a bit of 2 worlds…I feel all of that with the taxi drivers and a few homeless wanting money…and I feel their need for needing to make and income or to feed themselves…so it feels a bit different. And they aren’t in huge groups like they were before…even though walking down the street I am asked “taxi”? every 1 to 2 minutes and they sometimes think we don’t hear them so they repeat “taxi, yes, yes YES?” It has me want to sit down with each one of them and share our experience that we have already been asked 20 times in the last 30 minutes. I love the ones that have signs now saying “Taxi”, it feels better to just see it!
And the dogs, they are still a bit violent and I have already crossed the street walking home last night to avoid one that was barking in a violent bark!

And then there is something else…after wandering the street, passing temples, humans, dogs, shop after shop…realizing this place is a shopping persons paradise! If you know me you’d know I’m not huge on shopping in the US…but here, Thailand and India, I like it…maybe it is because I have spent life times in places like India, and I’m used to it here. Today I saw a shop, removed my shoes, walked in and was looking at a dress…truth is I knew I wanted it, but looked at other things. Coming back to the dress and asking her price. She came back with “special morning price for you”! Oh, I love that…a sweet voice giving me a special price! I came back with a low price I know she’d never take!
“Oh that is too low, I can’t do that” another offer
I send another offer.
“Oh that is too little, more please madam”.
I repeat my same offer.
She comes up.
I look around a bit and she sells a few things to a passer by.
I gaze right at her and tell her my final price with is right in the middle of hers and mine, she knows I am not budging and I know I have hit the price she wants…she agrees!
I give her the price we are both happy with and I walk out with a bounce in my step! I haven’t haggled in years….I forgot how much I love it!

I walked on looking for the studio that has Contact Improv and Ecstatic Dance…the GPS takes me to the wrong address but this woman tells me where it is! I went back to her restaurant to eat lunch later. The place where all these events happen looks like a huge theater from the outside…I wonder what it will look like on the inside since the dance space isn’t visible from the front. As I walk out, I start dreaming wonderful thoughts of wondering if I’d like to teach there! Of course after I see the space! I am starting to crave to teach again and this seems like a good place to just that…along with finding the place I’m staying as a space I could teach on and 2 massage tables! Feels good to think of working while being here!

I walked back to the the restaurant that told me how to get to the studio and ordered an Avocado juice..which usually comes with chocolate dripped on the side of the glass and on the top with 3 avocados milk and some ice blended and poured into the glass! Hers had no chocolate…and it was still lovely! I got some of their Balinese veggie curry with their incredible tempe, which I remember loving before and still love now! I sat and started to read a book and with peace just pouring in through me and feeling my whole system relax as I read about breathwork and feeling my shoulders drop…there is no where to go, no where to be, but just right here!
Nyoman brought me my juice and asked if I wanted sugar in it. I asked for salt…I mean after all it is avocado, she wrinkled her nose to me doing that. I asked if she’d ever put salt on an avocado, she said no. So indeed this must had been strange for her. My food came within minutes after the juice…it was so quick, the cook said “It is for one”. I sat with that for a bit “only for one”. Yes I have desired to be a 2, and I have been proposed to, first time when I was 13 years old, last time somewhere in my 30’s, but none of them felt right, none of them were a “hell yes” and I want the hell yes if I am going to marry someone. I take commitment very seriously and if I am going to put a ring on it and commit…it better be a Hell Yes for life!

After my food was done..which was incredible! I went back to book, drinking it in. It was so beautiful to have no where to go and now where to be. This is exactly what I am looking for in a part of this journey..to relearn to relax and read a book and follow my desires all day…I do this when I am stable from time to time, and I want to go deeper into it, as well as deeper into many other areas as well so they all feed me! I read until I felt done and walked on…I found a hammock shop…I didn’t know they sold travel hammocks here, it was great to lay in one and cool off! The heat is a bit much after the cooler Colombia as it was in rainy season when I left and LA being cooler as it is October. I just seem to be humid all the time here as I walk down the street and wonder how I am going to have enough clothes without washing them every other day! But then it is shopping heaven here…and believe me my brain is going crazy! I could build a whole new wardrobe here…and then the part of me that was designing my own clothes here when I was here came bubbling up to the surface asking me “do I want to do that again?” And part of me is a hell yes to that! And without having samples it can be very challenging…as that is how it was last time!

I remembered doing some Batiking when I was here last and I am looking for another teacher…as I’d love to do more of that while I’m here..it is such a beautiful art as well as I love dying things…plus a beautiful meditation!

So my first day so far is off to a good start! A mix of all kinds of things!