I’m a Seeker

May 28th, 2002 at 12:00am

Day #2 of the fast, and all is well. Dad’s busy with meditation in the morning, then yoga, the morning colema, some time by the pool, an afternoon massage, another colema, and then an herbal steam. Me, well, I am thoroughly enjoying our nice’beachfront suite’ too much to drag myself out of bed in the morning, so I am basically doing everything minus the yoga and meditation. (Sorry Buddha). So far so good. Weather here is pretty good – much better than when I was here 2 weeks ago. We’ve got sun and clouds during the day and usually a thunderstorm in the evening. Not too many people around either as it’s low season now. There may even be more dogs on the beaches than people (luckily no more’incidents’ for us).

By the way…I’ve made it to the big time, a quote in CNN about the bikini ban in Malaysia (if you read that entry a few weeks back you’ll recall how I mentioned being interviewed by the AP). Well, I found the quote today thanks to Ter and Lisa from home who emailed me about it…so here’s the quote:

“I do think it’s insensitive to go topless,” says Jennifer Thomson, 30, of Philadelphia. “I guess they’re not enforcing the bikini ban.”

Real profound, eh? Well, that stuff’s always taken out of context. I’m sure I said SOMETHING more interesting about it but it got lost in the edit room. Yeah. So anyway if you would like to read the whole article here it is (you will have to select the text below, copy it, and then paste it into your browser window…sorry no direct link):

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/05/20/malaysia.bikini.ap/index.html

One last thought for the day…

‘How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding – escaping encounters, avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies, restricting their feelings, sitting on the Pan pipe hootchy-kootch of experience – maybe those people, people won’t talk to rednecks, or if they’re rednecks won’t talk to intellectuals, people who’re afraid to eat what they crave, afraid to drink Mexican water, afraid to bat a long shot to win, afraid to hitchhike, jaywalk, honky-tonk, cogitate, osculate, levitate, rock it, bop it, sock it, or bark at the moon, maybe such people are simply inauthentic, and maybe the jackleg humanist who says differently is due to have his tongue fried on the hot slabs of Liar’s Hell. Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it’s mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren’t afraid to look and won’t turn tail should they find it – and if they never do, they’ll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth’s sweet gas!’

-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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