Still flying

Yesterday I wrote a big long post about my activities of late... hit "save draft"... and it was never seen again. Fuckers.

So I couldn't bring myself to recreate it right then, but I'll try now.

Sunday, June 19th was the Commercial Drive Car-Free Festival, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my whole time in Vancouver. Seriously. It was also my last day as a resident of Commercial Drive, and a finer send-off I could not have hoped for. Dancing in the streets ecstatically with all the other beautiful people, at a stage two blocks from my dear Graveley Manor, rocking out to fabulous beats and hooping in the middle of the road with thousands of other people swirling through the streets... alive with PEOPLE and not with cars... oh it was lovely.

The next day I drove my stuff over to Victoria, and the day after that, I headed up island to visit briefly with my dear old friend Paul. Tuesday Paul drove me up to Campbell River (thanks Paul!) where I caught the water taxi to Cortes. Then I spent five days at Hollyhock... highlights as follows:

- learning the fine art of conflict resolution with 8 and 9 year old boys
- discovering that I had more capacity for performing that task with calm, compassion and clarity than I might have expected
- swimming in the phosphorescents under the clear sky and stars
- getting to attend a three hour session of Rod Stryker's yoga course one morning
- getting to know Rod's lovely wife and five year old twins
- meeting and connecting with a special person from Alaska

There were more, of course, but that'll do for this forum...

I'll continue the rest of the updates in the next post!