Day 13

I wake at 5:57 ritually. The birds are the only ones up before me but within a half hour I begin to smell sage as people rinse the houses and hear the monkey brooms sweeping the streets. Pune slowly arises and I watch it.

We had a quiet day of Ayurveda treatments, way to much sweets and now we are at the hotel where I write and check my email with Omaha and her friend Mohini. Yashesh was up to the apartment as well, he is the 7 year old boy down stairs. The kids were having a great time but it was getting awfully noisy and confined so after 2 hours we came here.

I have been thinking about something the Dr said during our tea. He had asked if I had anyone in my life and then explained himself about the context with which and why he asked. He explained that we all need companionship, we can not tell our friends everything our families can be distant and we need someone intimate to us with whom we can share our essence. I liked that idea. But no I have no one, not that I don't want, on the contrary I do but first it is meeting this person and I alas have not, and I have less need of being with the wrong person than I do in waiting for the right. So I am not actively looking but I am actively waiting and until then I shall enjoy my time where ever it is placed.

I have become enamoured of  the fashion in which Indians use language, it is evidently colonized by the British but their personality and bhakti courses through their communication. Every word is pertinent and appropriated with care. They say what they mean and choose their words well in order to have it be understood. And it is peacful, Indians do not look to harm, there are people that do, but they are another entity. Indians as a whole are careful and observant this sure as they never wear helmets, they walk through the streets where ever, dogs do and I have yet to hear an aggressive word hollered or even muttered. They are watching so they move around the dog, person, rickshaw or motor it is of no concern and none to be come agitated over. They are unaggressive in this sense. They are strong I would even say mighty but unaggressive and engaging on all levels.