its good to know theres fellow travelers out there .but the other side of the argument becomes true its just as honest to live elsewhere that where you were born. amercians know this its possible to live somewhere to live more inside
Perfectly succinct passage about the wisdom one attains with age in silencing a restless, unsatisfied mind and enjoying what one has, wherever you are.
Pico Iyer has been an inspiration since Video Nights in Kathmandu ... now after a week living at a Buddhist Engyoji Temple on Mt. Shosha with 'my' Japanese lady (she was actually working — teaching and translating Kundalini Yoga into Japanese) we took some time in Kyoto... in part thanks to Pico's writing. It's a far cry from NYC, London, Cape Town, Pushkar, Tel Aviv or Delhi... or is it? As Pico Iyer says so accurately we bring ourselves along wherever we tread.... though mercifully - at least for myself - I detect subtle positive changes over the past two decades. Unlike Pico, one thing I find impossible is to write and live without the big I - internet - and thus manage to set up wireless even at Buddhist Temples near Himaji or in Ladakh. Heaven knows, I did not plan any of this ... nor I suspect my European refugee grandparents could have foreseen any of this ( 'travel') when they landed in South Africa in the 1920s..... the web allows me to offer a direct thanks to Pico Iyer: keep us enchanted with your honest, excellent writing. Roy
PS Wonder what happened to Leonard Cohen?
I'm totally confused. How is he living in a two room apartment with the married woman and her two kids whom he met 20 years ago? Why aren't they watching the waves in Malibu?
