Thursday, August 26, 2010
October 10th...spending my bday on a 'slum tour'.
I've mentioned it before in a post. We're booked through a tour company for the slum tour. Here is an interesting glimpse beforehand. Mumbai Slum Tour Report.
Monday, August 23, 2010
How many days and counting?
I realize that my blog updates are infrequent at this point, but right now I'm just starting to prepare -- my luggage and my mind. I downloaded Slumdog Millionaire the other day (am I supposed to admit that?)
Haven't watched it yet. People say I should.
People have been giving me all sorts of advice - but the one thing they all keep saying is "this will be a life changing experience". I wonder what will change in me there? I'll make sure to make note of any 'changes' while I'm there.
For now, I'm just waiting and with each and every day that goes by I feel more and more nervous and more and more guilty for leaving my kids. Doesn't help that their father keeps reminding me of his empending challenge. Don't get me wrong he is supportive, I just owe him big time.
Enough with the guilt already...did I not bear his children? Did I not give up sleep for the last 11 years?
My turn. No guilt....for now.
Haven't watched it yet. People say I should.
People have been giving me all sorts of advice - but the one thing they all keep saying is "this will be a life changing experience". I wonder what will change in me there? I'll make sure to make note of any 'changes' while I'm there.
For now, I'm just waiting and with each and every day that goes by I feel more and more nervous and more and more guilty for leaving my kids. Doesn't help that their father keeps reminding me of his empending challenge. Don't get me wrong he is supportive, I just owe him big time.
Enough with the guilt already...did I not bear his children? Did I not give up sleep for the last 11 years?
My turn. No guilt....for now.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Everyone's got a travel tip.
So as I prepare to embark on this journey I am trying to get as much information about travelling to India as I can possible find. Surfing the web requires so little effort so I'm mostly looking there. In my 'research' I came across a website called Heart Space. When I typed in 'tips for travelling to India' in Google, it was the first link on top of the list, so I thought...must be good right?
Oh boy. Not sure how to get a website to appear top of the list but...can't be too hard.
It pains me to post the link, I don't want to entice more hits than it already has -- 40,000 too many already, but it needs to be said. The guy that wrote this is completely bonkers, and among other things is completely culturally incompetent and racist. What's worse is that on his home page (may I remind you the site is called Heart Space )he claims that his site is for the 'spiritually awakened'. He posts his poetry and shit like that.
In his 'travel tips' he talks about the 'Indians' as though he was seeing them from his car as he is travelling through Park Safari. You know, the zoo where you can drive through it and touch or feed the animals?
Yeah, that's it. It's exactly like that.
Apparently enlightenment means different things for different people.
Sheesh. Here's the link.
Lesson: just cause it's on the web...
Back to researching travel tips, this time, reading this.
Oh boy. Not sure how to get a website to appear top of the list but...can't be too hard.
It pains me to post the link, I don't want to entice more hits than it already has -- 40,000 too many already, but it needs to be said. The guy that wrote this is completely bonkers, and among other things is completely culturally incompetent and racist. What's worse is that on his home page (may I remind you the site is called Heart Space )he claims that his site is for the 'spiritually awakened'. He posts his poetry and shit like that.
In his 'travel tips' he talks about the 'Indians' as though he was seeing them from his car as he is travelling through Park Safari. You know, the zoo where you can drive through it and touch or feed the animals?
Yeah, that's it. It's exactly like that.
Apparently enlightenment means different things for different people.
Sheesh. Here's the link.
Lesson: just cause it's on the web...
Back to researching travel tips, this time, reading this.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Repurposing my purpose
Sorry, been on holidays at the lake with the family. No time for blogs. Only time for knee boarding, cannonballs, and smores.
We were at one with nature. Well actually, I was trying to be at one with nature. But my relationship with it was far too often interrupted with requests for After-Bite cream and freezie pops.
But I did have time to do some thinking. I thought about this trip I'm planning, and about why it's so important. If someone asked me that a few weeks ago I would have answered "to come back a better person". Cheesy. Reminds me of Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire. Fromage.
It needs to be deeper than that. So I need to give it some thought. I need to repurpose my purpose.
We were at one with nature. Well actually, I was trying to be at one with nature. But my relationship with it was far too often interrupted with requests for After-Bite cream and freezie pops.
But I did have time to do some thinking. I thought about this trip I'm planning, and about why it's so important. If someone asked me that a few weeks ago I would have answered "to come back a better person". Cheesy. Reminds me of Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire. Fromage.
It needs to be deeper than that. So I need to give it some thought. I need to repurpose my purpose.
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