Taking Off

I look forward to my annual trip to Kathmandu as a real good break away from my regular routine and weekly cycle of activities at work and at home. I exercise, socialize, organize, manage and direct, plan, execute and deliver papers, lectures, training, business plans, parties, fund raisers and gatherings and this and that and so on and so forth. Not that I don't enjoy these processes, I thoroughly enjoy everyone I interact with!

Going to Nepal and being where things don't work out as planned or things don't work period, is a refreshing break from the efficiencies available here or in any developed country. There is a schedule, don't get me wrong but the little hiccups and starts and stops are what I find an exercise in flexibility, patience, understanding and ultimately compassion. Its a mental and spiritual acceptance of just what is - not what we want it to be!

Its a break from expectations, a study on looking and seeing! Observing and learning that there is a different way, a new perspective, a different light. Better perhaps but no one is judging. There are many ways that lead to the answer and its the discovery of the many answers and ultimately the choices that make living there every day a beautiful day!