Day 6
I was down at the Can by 6:30am. Thomas was already making his own
waffles. Stacy and Loc just left for the
day to do things in town. I had waffles
with Marion berry jam. I sat with Henry
and chatted on the past year catching up
on our lives. We pretty much just have
this time, once a year during work week to do this. He is a great, good person. I am grateful to have such affinities to
come across such a good person this life time.
Henry got a call from Loc
to run the day. We all gathered
outside around Henry and Myra who reminded everyone what had to be done today
and checked on with everyone to communicate challenges or needs. I was so proud of him to step forward from
his shyness and lead everyone as he is skilled and experienced to. He’s been at this place since day one of the
beginning of this retreat years ago and he knows a lot. He is a good friend and doesn’t like to tell
his friends to have to go to work. But
then that means more 12 hour days and he can’t do it all himself. It just won’t get done in time and he might
break his back in the process.
I was so exhausted in the afternoon I couldn’t focus so I
put earplugs into my ears and listened to music to focus. I had to get dinner ready for the rest of the
seventy five people arriving around dinner time. Tomas was up for kneading the dough. For two hours everyone else was on assembly
line for making pot stickers, samosa, and fresh spring roll.
The subject of what is cool came up. Thomas said, “being cool is breaking
rules.” I said, “Bodhisattvas and
Buddhas are cool.” Myra said, “Jesus is
cool.
Fabrizio arrived with his daughter Lauren this afternoon
after a long drive from Canada. Toure
and I helped them get settled in.
Valerie’s love and kindness radiated with a warm welcome to Lauren. Toure was very transmedium during tent
setup. It means something is about to go
down, wrong on his end and he is pretending to not notice or acknowledge his
karmic hand in the chain of seed to fruit.
The shopping van returned and everyone jumped to
unloading and organizing it all. It was
amazing to see. I took this time to rest
my feet. I didn’t really eat. I think I was too tired. Instead I just stayed hydrated. It was lovely to see everyone arrive
safely.
