There and back again.

There’s no place like home…Arrived back from a retreat in India Jan 13.

Thank you for your patience with my absence.

There were many wonderful things about this trip to India. Most had to do with the retreat itself, but many also had to do with simply the astounding change in perspective that inevitably comes with plopping down in a different culture. I particularly appreciated being only one of two Americans in the group of 120 or so people attending this retreat. There were many Indians, of course, but also there were Nepalese, Indonesian, Chinese, Australian, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Canadian, Thai, an Englishman, and a devoted young Finn who came to meditate.

It is so easy, living in America, to overestimate its dominance in the world, and it was refreshing, inspiring actually, to be among so many people for whom the U.S. had very little significance. There are so many perspectives, and all of them reflect, if not embody, some truth.