Acclimation

I ate such a delicious dinner last night at the farm. ´´Krishna´´ made it while we all helped him. When I arrived at the farm the first work I did was clean the kitchen. Everything is outside here--the kitchen is like a screened in patio. Throughout the night I met Lily, Joe, Krishna (a Hare Krishna who looks only about 27), and Susanna. Susanna´s German but lived in Spain for a year or 2, the states for a few, and then consistently back packs all over. These people look so young but I learn they´re all about in their 30s. I sit crosslegged after dinner and listen to Lily´s story. I ask, ´so where do you come from?´ Joe answers, ´´This one?´´ referring to Lily. ´´She´s a talented musician!´´ Lily smiles lightly as if she´s heard that description many times before. She reaches over across the room to grab her CD and shows me the jacket. The lyrics are all about her struggle for freedom as she travels throughout the world. ´´I wasn´t happy in the city of Berlin and the plenty of exams and papers I had to write at the University. So I left in my early 20s to live a life in nature and in various places all over the world. ´´In Germany, I´m a nobody´´ she says. ´´I´ve detached myself from society so I can live closer to the earth. I don´t know. I couldn´t stand the titles--always being something to someone, living out certain parts of myself. It was too much to balance. So I threw it all away so I can be only myself.´´

I understood her completely. Though it made me think of her family and all the people she meant to in her life. Does she still speak to them?

Joe and Krishna argue in very broken Enlish--something about Mayan ritual versus Hinduism. ´´Hinduism is all about devotion. ya ya ya--it´s great but it takes too long. The Mayans believed that we were Gods already.´´

I´ve always wanted to learn about Mayans and I found myself in the perfect place for doing so. There are Mayan ruins all over this area. I´ve named that one of my quests. ´´We are all so powerful. Look around, we´ve created everything. We are just vibrating at the same energy and that´s why we see eachother here. We are all energy and all we see here is the energy frequency we are vibrating.´´

Slept in the dorm in a cot next to Julien--a German Frutarian. He only eats fruit. A dinner we ask if he wants anything. He resists. I ask him about the ethics of only eating fruit but, I´m still working on getting an answer. He´s a soft spoken guy) but quite helpful. He showed me where to get blankets and where to get food in the morning.