ARCATA, beautiful, wet, not the place for me, but beautiful

the land, grand


on a sunny day, farmer's market is a delight


one twin, Ana


other twin, Gabriella


dance and spirit


Arcata is
fine
dance is fine
people are fun
weather is wet
wet
wet

and too wet and grey
for me

and it was wonderful to be there

SONOMA: Love is Big

Left Atlanta on March 24,
my son's birthday.

Here's the plane wing
over the clouds.

Sometimes it's so nice
to be above the clouds.

Kind of like when we come home to our real selves
and don't identify with the
petty thoughts/ complaints/ demands/ beliefs
that can keep us so mired
in
a messy world
of our own making.

Came to Sonoma,
but spent most of the time
completing the basic training
of the ANAT BANIEL METHOD.

Did the ten segments,
each nine days,
with my son, Brendan.


Wonderful wonderful group
of people.
Wonderful experience.

Meanwhile back in Sonoma
the kind lady who was housing
me
didn't want to partake of the lessons,
which was sad for me,
not being able to give,
and sad for her,
in my opinion,
since she didn't get the sweet
grand gains
of a series of lessons.

Some people seem
to fear a change
even if it
would be a sweetening of their lives.

Again, my opinion.

And of course:
sometimes I'm like that.

However:
on the birthday,
yesterday,
April 13,
up to a new house,
right away someone took
received
gained from
enjoyed a
lesson.

And,
they made me
a raw birthday
cake.




And I got to sleep outdoors,
second time since back to Sonoma,
the first being wild wonderful
Brettt with three t's b-day
party (his April 6 a week before
mine)

His party:
up at Sugarloaf.





And sweet presents:
calls from Brendan and my daughter Wenonah
and my former intimate friend
and now
becoming sweet friend
again,
Marlie.


We had a few rough spots,
but my loving that she has
a new man who treats her really
well
this she can finally believe.

Love is big.
It's not owning,
it's wanting the best for the other.

My opinion.

Good?

I think so.

every day, new wonderful, possibilities

check the links before,
people knowing how fitness
can be built in real ways,

all that's missing is working with
pick
axe
shovel
hoe
scythe
sledge hammer
wrecking bar
and other fun stuff:

real work, too for real strength

Man in Nature, swim run jump happy fitness

another man in woods, getting cool and strong


Ciao,
Chris

doing dumb. insensitive things

i've done it
you've done it
we've all done it.

saying, writing
doing something
dumb and insensitive
hurtful

ah, me
ah, my
the human thing

what next?

apologize

figure out the fear
and insecurity
and foolish assumptions
that go the behavior going.

apologize again.


forgive yourself,
and maybe the other
will
maybe not

so be
it.

ATLANTA: failure yes, failure no

I set out to travel
and to give as many lessons
as possible
in whatever place I was in.

Then I realized I had to make
some money
so offered free
lessons the first week
and then,
to charge.

Not many taking me
up
on it.

Oh, well,
this is my job to fascinate
intrigue
inspire
more to join
the learning and miraculous
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Meanwhile
with the special needs
wonderful child
Bentley-Grace
lots of lessons,
lots of progress,
lots of learning.


Good.

ATLANTA , SATURDAY NIGHT: Who wuduv thought

that my raw foods thing
might be the hit
of a party

here in Atlanta
Fredda and Lee invited two
couples over
and I was expecting to kind
of slink in the corner
and do my raw thing
with as little fuss
as possible

down next to me
sits a tall beauty, Holly,
studying nutrition
and whose just heard a lecture
by David Wolf,
one of the leading rawies
but she's been hesitant
about the giving up animal products
part of most raw foods

and i'm merrily eating my
raw buffalo meat
and raw milk cheese
and she and i are off to the races

and then
our table has plenty other sweet stuff
to talk about,
finding the story
of Fredda and Lee's meeting
and the
story
of how Holly and Henry meet.

then to the living room,
and i'm mainly keeping low
profile
listening
saying a little bit,

but eating and
nutrition
come around again,
and everyone's open
and having fun discussing it


and

and the guy in the other couple
Mark, of Mark and Maria,
is fascinated by the raw idea,
since he's changing how he eats
and having a wonderful
time

and so, we
are having a raw food party
next Saturday night

who wuduv
thought



and still wondering/////???

coming back to Atlanta if
don't make a batch of money by
the time I leave

we'll see

ATLANTA: a day of meeting and walking and good

Bentley-Grace and I with one of my smoothies she actually approved of,
maybe because she set up what was going into it


sometimes
we just need those kind of days
were we trust that the littlest
things we
do
with ease and spontaneity
will bring along exactly
what we need in our life

today:
some fun play/ learning/ with weights

a late late breakfast around eleven
then heading into
the "town' /village area of Buckhead
Atlanta

on the way
met a woman, Page, with two kids in
a stroller,
new to Atlanta,
nice kids near in age to the Hicks
kids where I'm staying

and she needed a bike pump
and we got to talking
about:
being now
and
how to let go of troubles
and
what it's like in Atlanta


nice stuff

then over to the gym
to have a friendly
are fairly deep
conversation with the owner,
Andrew

and then home
for a nap
of all things,
but since i'd been up since 4
it felt fine

and then
a long
and slow
and patience building walk
with Bentley-Grace in her chair
and river the dog on a leash

over to see Paige again
and have her daughter met
Bentley-Grace
and
Paige not home
after about half an hour
to get the three blocks,

but her parents there,
and they were interesting in
the Neurological Work
and kind and sweet with Bentley-Grace
and then Page
and her kids came

and so on
and so on

nice day
nice people
some more people learning about the work
and one or two willing to come
along
and experience
it


good