Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 ~ Venezia, Italia
(this is the continuation of a travel journal that begins with the September 10th entry further below…)
Finally, my friends, I feel more free again. I have decided that it isn’t enough to just board a plane for some exotic or glamerous location. If you don’t have free time you are just as trapped as you would be anywhere else in the world. Sometimes you want to pack your days with one activity after the other…it’s fun…but when it has stopped being fun it becomes a grind, like any other. I have designed my life to be free of the grind so I certainly don’t want to search the world for it.
So to just wander around Venice for hours and hours is heaven sent. To sit by the Grand Canal when your feet are tired from walking day after day, and to just go wherever you want to, without any destination, is pure poetry. I don’t ever get tired of little canal after little canal. Though I will be so ready to come home that I can barely think about it, there is just nothing in the world like this city.
It was so incredible to tone here for a group of about eighteen people who usually meet to meditate. I remembered what marble and water do for sound, and it is epic. And to feel the energy rising up from the land and water here was ecstatic, and made the most hauntingly beautiful sounds.
I am going now to see Piazza San Marco at night…I will send you all a gentle breeze from my favorite plaza in the world…
Love, Jennifer
