October 15, 2003- Paul House in Dharamkot-Hot Shower and Isolation
Oh, What a beautiful morning,
Oh, What a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's goin' my way
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as a elephant's eye (well not quite...it's already been harvested here and is on the rooftops drying for fodder I guess)
and....
also from Oklahoma...
...sit alone and talk (in this case to myself I guess) and watch the hawk
making lazy circles in the sky.....
The words are just perfect and as always music does it for me...this time, it just came to me in my head but as clear and alive as if I had it playing outloud...
And there are always perfectly good reasons for everthing that happens, I am sitting on my own private terrace, in the SUN, overlooking the hills around Dharamkot, far from the main road and the "big city" (a 15 minute walk away actually!) watching the hawks slowly circling in the clear blue sky, lazily but alertly seeking their prey...when one all of a sudden dives into the trees...the the others disperse. There truly is not a sound to be heard but the chirping of birds-far off distant talking from the local houses...children laughing...hand tools hitting the fields to turn over the soil for new planting, cows mooing, cicadas, ....On the other side of the building a local peasant is plowing with 2 bullocks a miniscule piece of flat land on the terraced hillside. Now I NEVER would have thought to come up here in the first place, besides which, all the guesthouses I've seen here are truly hovels...so certainly would NEVER have found this place hidden away down the slope among the trees...only because of Anil';s attentions I found this fabulous place. Large airy room ( there are even nicer ones but they are occupied, but perhaps another time)...24 hour a day hot water!- REAL shower ...carpet on floor which does not smell of monsoon, metal closet (!) to keep my clothes in...I'm only supposed to be 2-3 days here...I have to see how I manage with the food etc., up here...and also if it won't get very cold...but it is MUCH warmer than my room down at Kailwood to begin with...as a matter of fact, I am getting VERY hot in the sun.
OK...better...found a shady corner and only my legs are in the sun now.
So...whatever, I was meant to find this place and check it out. Even if just for future use...Just realized after getting my bearings I am directly behind and below Beit Chabad...can see the sukka from my terrace. PS--there are also screens on the windows!!
Funny, came up for lunch -I know this is an "Israeli town" but what are they playing for music? "Ayelet Chen"...any of you dancers out there will know what a great Yemenite couples dance this is of Sedi...and sitting here and listening, and finding my body moving in time and my feet dancing benenath the table...it is the first time in over 3 months that I have even thought of Rikudei Am...
And now the music continues. I really enjoyed being away from Israelis all this time, but I know I will be REALLY happy to be home when the time comes. Perhaps if I had been listening to my OWN music all along it would be less powerful, this pleasure of hearing it now!. But it is truly a pleasure to be hearing Hebrew music after so long (1 month?!?)
Lunch was very nice...back to room...took a short nap and then took a REAL LONG HOT STRONG SHOWER for the first time since I left Delhi on Sept 8th...actually, first really good normal shower I've had since coming to India and I stayed under for almost 10 minutes and the hot water was still hot when I shut it off!. It's worth the price just for the shower. Sat out a little longer and have now been reading...Ordered supper from Nausad, the sweet kid here who decided to call me "mom"...says I'm older than his mother but nice to have "old" ladies come here sometimes....The sun went down behind the trees very early - 4:30...but was glorious until then. But in a place like this, honest truth is, I'd be in TOTAL heaven now if I had my music. But I guess nothing is ever meant to be THAT perfect in life. So I will make the most of it anyway. reading etc., Tomorrow I will try out some of the back paths I see here and see where they end up...probably at Bhagsu. and then I can continue down to McLeod, eat a good lunch and walk back up for a nice full day. Let's see if it happens. Things change so easily and quickly here.
Just met "Tzip" from Kiryat Anavin who is 67 and came here to meet her granddaughter who was here for awhile and has now gone up to Kasul but told her grandmother not to come there. She is a really sweet lady but shows her age and has trouble walking and so even more Kol Hakovod to her. In 10 years from now will I come back here to joing of my MY granddaugthers?
Had a good nites sleep and this morning (Thursday) spoke to Tzip for a long time....Always stories to hear here and so many people seem to come here for healing...4 years ago her daughter (she had 2), died of cancer after she, Tzip, had taken care of her for 4 years previously helping her to fight it. She left behind twin sons who are 9 years old today and the granddaughter who is now 21. The mother left insurance money when she passed away and the granddaughter is using that to travel and paid for Tzip to take this trip to India, but also allowing for her problems, made sure she has enough to travel by private taxi everywhere.
She is a really interesting lady so even up here I have someone to talk to. I took the back woods path down to bhagsu this morning and for the first time really felt all the way in the middle of nowhere...but this wasn't really so as all the local houses are down here as well as many guesthouses and even a restaurant, but the feeling is of total isolation...it was great...and then came across a guesthouse I had always seen from the main road up on the hill but didn't know how to get there, so checked it out, and now have another nice option just at the beginning of bhagsu without being in the town itself...beautiful rooms...with phones and room service, and some even have TV's if I decide to really get away the last couple of weeks here, perhaps I will go up there and "live it up"...each room has a private terrace facing the mountains and beautiufl large bathroom....and it is not expensive..the fanciest rooms are only 270 but even nice ones for 140...
that's about it....I am now going back up the mountain after getting some supplies (nuts, raisins, fruit, cake etc.)....
Love to all
Oh, What a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's goin' my way
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as a elephant's eye (well not quite...it's already been harvested here and is on the rooftops drying for fodder I guess)
and....
also from Oklahoma...
...sit alone and talk (in this case to myself I guess) and watch the hawk
making lazy circles in the sky.....
The words are just perfect and as always music does it for me...this time, it just came to me in my head but as clear and alive as if I had it playing outloud...
And there are always perfectly good reasons for everthing that happens, I am sitting on my own private terrace, in the SUN, overlooking the hills around Dharamkot, far from the main road and the "big city" (a 15 minute walk away actually!) watching the hawks slowly circling in the clear blue sky, lazily but alertly seeking their prey...when one all of a sudden dives into the trees...the the others disperse. There truly is not a sound to be heard but the chirping of birds-far off distant talking from the local houses...children laughing...hand tools hitting the fields to turn over the soil for new planting, cows mooing, cicadas, ....On the other side of the building a local peasant is plowing with 2 bullocks a miniscule piece of flat land on the terraced hillside. Now I NEVER would have thought to come up here in the first place, besides which, all the guesthouses I've seen here are truly hovels...so certainly would NEVER have found this place hidden away down the slope among the trees...only because of Anil';s attentions I found this fabulous place. Large airy room ( there are even nicer ones but they are occupied, but perhaps another time)...24 hour a day hot water!- REAL shower ...carpet on floor which does not smell of monsoon, metal closet (!) to keep my clothes in...I'm only supposed to be 2-3 days here...I have to see how I manage with the food etc., up here...and also if it won't get very cold...but it is MUCH warmer than my room down at Kailwood to begin with...as a matter of fact, I am getting VERY hot in the sun.
OK...better...found a shady corner and only my legs are in the sun now.
So...whatever, I was meant to find this place and check it out. Even if just for future use...Just realized after getting my bearings I am directly behind and below Beit Chabad...can see the sukka from my terrace. PS--there are also screens on the windows!!
Funny, came up for lunch -I know this is an "Israeli town" but what are they playing for music? "Ayelet Chen"...any of you dancers out there will know what a great Yemenite couples dance this is of Sedi...and sitting here and listening, and finding my body moving in time and my feet dancing benenath the table...it is the first time in over 3 months that I have even thought of Rikudei Am...
And now the music continues. I really enjoyed being away from Israelis all this time, but I know I will be REALLY happy to be home when the time comes. Perhaps if I had been listening to my OWN music all along it would be less powerful, this pleasure of hearing it now!. But it is truly a pleasure to be hearing Hebrew music after so long (1 month?!?)
Lunch was very nice...back to room...took a short nap and then took a REAL LONG HOT STRONG SHOWER for the first time since I left Delhi on Sept 8th...actually, first really good normal shower I've had since coming to India and I stayed under for almost 10 minutes and the hot water was still hot when I shut it off!. It's worth the price just for the shower. Sat out a little longer and have now been reading...Ordered supper from Nausad, the sweet kid here who decided to call me "mom"...says I'm older than his mother but nice to have "old" ladies come here sometimes....The sun went down behind the trees very early - 4:30...but was glorious until then. But in a place like this, honest truth is, I'd be in TOTAL heaven now if I had my music. But I guess nothing is ever meant to be THAT perfect in life. So I will make the most of it anyway. reading etc., Tomorrow I will try out some of the back paths I see here and see where they end up...probably at Bhagsu. and then I can continue down to McLeod, eat a good lunch and walk back up for a nice full day. Let's see if it happens. Things change so easily and quickly here.
Just met "Tzip" from Kiryat Anavin who is 67 and came here to meet her granddaughter who was here for awhile and has now gone up to Kasul but told her grandmother not to come there. She is a really sweet lady but shows her age and has trouble walking and so even more Kol Hakovod to her. In 10 years from now will I come back here to joing of my MY granddaugthers?
Had a good nites sleep and this morning (Thursday) spoke to Tzip for a long time....Always stories to hear here and so many people seem to come here for healing...4 years ago her daughter (she had 2), died of cancer after she, Tzip, had taken care of her for 4 years previously helping her to fight it. She left behind twin sons who are 9 years old today and the granddaughter who is now 21. The mother left insurance money when she passed away and the granddaughter is using that to travel and paid for Tzip to take this trip to India, but also allowing for her problems, made sure she has enough to travel by private taxi everywhere.
She is a really interesting lady so even up here I have someone to talk to. I took the back woods path down to bhagsu this morning and for the first time really felt all the way in the middle of nowhere...but this wasn't really so as all the local houses are down here as well as many guesthouses and even a restaurant, but the feeling is of total isolation...it was great...and then came across a guesthouse I had always seen from the main road up on the hill but didn't know how to get there, so checked it out, and now have another nice option just at the beginning of bhagsu without being in the town itself...beautiful rooms...with phones and room service, and some even have TV's if I decide to really get away the last couple of weeks here, perhaps I will go up there and "live it up"...each room has a private terrace facing the mountains and beautiufl large bathroom....and it is not expensive..the fanciest rooms are only 270 but even nice ones for 140...
that's about it....I am now going back up the mountain after getting some supplies (nuts, raisins, fruit, cake etc.)....
Love to all
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