Shh

Just a quick note...tomorrow morning I fly to Sydney, take a train for 2 hours to Blackheath and then...stop talking. I'll be doing my first 10 day silent Vipassana meditation retreat. I'm excited and nervous. Yesterday during my meditation, I got really antsy, desperate to move and jump. This almost never happens and it made me panic a bit. What if it kills me to sit there ALL DAY? But that's the point. It will be uncomfortable. Rise at 4 am. No food past 12 noon. Bed at 9 pm. In the meantime: stare into my mind. What's there?! I can't wait to find out!

And some backstory on the past 2 weeks: xmas in rural Queensland with Lenine n' Fam, watching The Castle as part of my the "understanding australia" series (and so I can finally get the jokes), learning to dive under waves, rip heads off a prawn, read a "rip" in the ocean. NYE in rural New South Wales with 4000 queers...fireworks, cabaret, friends under the stars, slow dance parties, hugs, tears, amazing performances by my own friends (the best kind evah). more later.

love,
cg