On Wednesday last week, Anadi and I took a mini break by the sea…
We travelled on the train – out of the town and into the country where the tall buildings flashing by our window, turned instead into green fields and tall trees… We trundled on to the end of the land where the sea shone sparkly bright in the evening sun, and the sound of the waves became our backdrop …
I hadn’t seen the sea since March and hearing the squawk of the gulls felt to be a sort of homecoming…
Everywhere home
As a nomad I made my home all over the world – the planet my home – and this hasn’t actually changed in my heart… Even though I have stopped ( for awhile) in a basement flat in Chelsea, I still feel that the planet is my home…
I even forget I am in London as I wander and run through the streets… I could be anywhere… I have run through so many streets and paths, woodland, common land, canal banks, river banks and mountain passes…
Always running or walking though the land I am in…
Experiencing a sense of its energy, its flavour, its history and its present vibe, made up over the aeons of time, that are all happening now and will happen in the future now…
Anadi and I stood on the beach together on Thursday morning…
We had enjoyed a wonderful evening in St Leonards. The Bavard bar is the wonderful creation of Tim crook, where he hosts a show that invites people to come and talk about their passions, their lives, themselves…
Having been locked down since March, this was the first live show for some months and we were glad to be back in a theatre enjoying the anticipation of the show to come, with the shared energy of the rest of the audience…
Athena Jane spoke about life death and re birth, very movingly and with great depth – and Mike Willis a musician, spoke about an unusual evening while he was touring in China…
So Thursday morning had dawned and we wanted only to wander, to be on the beach, to hear the sounds, to smell the sea, to be, there, here, now, together.
We didn’t go far, soon our wandering took back to the hotel, to sit on the decking and drink coffee, and eat breakfast
And be
Together by the sea for just a morning.
A morning mini break – and one night in the huge king size bed with a sea view.
Because after breakfast Anadi had to work… And me too…
But, we both love our work, and so this lends itself to every day being a holy day , a holiday… Our mini break was so perfect… Each moment endless, expansive…
The whole of time – all past and future held in each extraordinary ordinary moment we are here.
Now