House Sitting

So I am house sitting for a friend whose two cats are absolutely adorable and lovable. Coyote and Moonface, man. I miss cats. Just finished watching an awesome movie "Neverland," with Jonnie Depp and that actress from The Titanic - ? Man, what an awakening. How innocent we were as children, the invincibility and the imagination of children - lol. I used to believe I could fly, all I had to do was jump just high enough. When the back of our old couch didn't work, I tried jumping off the swing on our old maple tree, then off the roof of my tree house - the amazing thing is that I didn't break any bones and could still walk. But, then we could take a tangent and think of flying in Tom Petty's terms, which I learned as a teenager - how to get that feeling of flying from letting myself be myself, and spontaneous. And now, holding onto that magically young fascination of freedom and absolute imagination and mushing it together with spontaneity and a new found innocense and letting go is flying.

This past weekend I went up to Flagstaff, AZ to check out the school and was taken by surprise. It is so beautiful up there! Checked out Slide Rock - a natural water slide between Flagstaff and Sedona, it was so incredible! You could jump off the side ten feet above the water and then ride down the slide! The mountains and water and green, all the natural beauty is what I am so frequently reminded to be grateful for. Like this lyric in a Harry Manx song - the flower blooms outside the window even if nobody is there to see it. It just is.

My housemate this summer is one of those flowers. What an incredible woman, Prashant. She has so much spunk and natural lustre about her, a beauty of a being. She has this way of living that is so honest and frank and spontaneous, and rich with love. I am so grateful for her. She is the one who would tell you in the same breath that you have brocoli in your teeth, that the sky is quite blue today and that there is an incredible energy about the women today. Strawberry, what a great flavor.