wishing
Well, this year has started off to a tee, I made my wish for: "perfect health", and the first thing I did, after more than a week of being low-energy and sick over new years, was to drop my daily yoga, and start up on coffee again... after my health started to drop again, and the first massage didn't do anything magical, I went to see Tito (friend and also good body worker). Tito did a good session on me, from which I feel a lot better, and I also got inspired to do some muscle building.
Yaay! I've been able to migrate my previous blog entries from blogspot into this new website, which means that I can now categorize, store and reference all my old material... youpie!!
For this new year: 2010, I am planning on focusing on the following things:
1. Perfect health [so at a minimum, no more physical ailments due to me just not balancing my life well enough with physical activity]
Right, I've thought about where I am and where I want to go, and here is my plan for next year:
step1: do a vipassana 10 day silent-meditation course. I've been meaning to now for years and it's time I do it. I'm aiming for February 2009.
step2: follow a permaculture-teacher-training course. Even though I am not sure how this will help me in the short term; it is a vital component to all of my more recent developments. My goal is to find a course that starts in March, April or May 2009.
This week I had friends over to share my sauna, thanksgiving is coming up soon and there will be lots of nice yummy food soon. Went out to a few parties and was reminded at just how many people I know in Portland already! It's quite amazing. It's really nice to have a supporting circle of friends here.
The biggest news however is that I broke up with Chelsea and severed the friendship - something I don't usually do, but it was necessary this time given how things unfolded.
--crater lake, OR, USA, 2008-10, S. Chedal
see all of Sebastian's new photos of crater lake
i had a really nice time in spain with Josiane. We rented a car - drove around costa brava, visited beautiful beaches, the mountains and even the little commercial petrol-shopping enclave of Andorra. So much love, a really special person, beautiful times.
Photos from our trip [first week uploaded, second week still needs to be uploaded as I find time to do so]:
hello my friends,
here i am
waves crashing with speckles of dancers in their white curls
weathered tempered homes of elderly stones freckling mazes of mediteranian
my mother and i are in the sun again, in the south of france
its a time to spent together, a vaction, but also not
my mother is looking for a home here - drastic changes are in the air.
the wind has come, and to its call, little thought is placed; the wind guides us, movement beggets direction, direction preceeds reflection.
after a few days leaving the farm, wet, and tired of camping - dreaming of a shower, a fireplace and a good book; i headed through Seattle for an afternoon [nice city, market, architecture, vibe cool] and landed back at Lindsay's house again a day early after a long night searching for camping spots and ending up between the trees along a random river. I expect to be here now for the next 5 days until I depart [by wheel or plane] for my return flight to Amsterdam.
So, yesterday I started to look at my life from a different perspective...
Instead of seeing it as me taking life as it comes, mutating gold opportunity to golden opportunity - following the silver thread of life as each new moment offers a new moment of growth; I started to look at it from a deeper psychological standpoint.
