"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

10 September 2009

Journal 8.6.09 Inle Lake, Burma

I stand outside an old, broken down wooden monestary,
window panes half in tact, doors shuttered, stray dogs left
behind wandering aimlessly, approaching cautiously, then running
into the unknown;
chimes still ringing in the expectant breeze,
I breathe deeply, follow my breath in mindfullness,
aware of only the moment in which i am so wholly immersed.