scenes from sunday

we had an excellent dinner last night at the Hotel Ambassador, but Randy, I promise we will go check out the other places. this morning we lounged around for a while, I tried to write a bit, but am stuck with how to proceed with part two of the Republic chapter....(trying to work with this self-mastery and harmony dynamic)

then we did a nice long practice (the Friday night sequence with some additional hip opening to help with simasana). we were trying to find the shop Arnav and walked a long way looking for it, past some less than safe areas, and were somewhat lost (we did follow mommy-ji's advice about direction asking, but it doesn't always help) then took a detour into a temple on a really large hill and that must have changed our wandering luck because after a bit more of a walk, were about to give up and take a rickshaw home and I happened to turn around and see crosswords bookstore. it was just a lovely experience. we bought several novels and many dvds to entertain ourselves, not that we are doing a bad job with it on our own, but last night Christina was so desperate to watch something that she looked through all 1800 slides on my i photo library and listened to my commentary about Greek art and architecture and various philosophers. I also had a mochacino and a frozen one as well (which is what I meant to order the first time, but rather than send it back, I just got another one), so I'm pretty high on sugar and caffeine right now.

simon gave us directions home from crosswords after Christina asked him, "where are we?" which was more of an existential inquiry than a metaphysical one.

Anyway, the western civilization fix was much needed and now we have escapist books and films as well to help with our Pune panic that sometimes sets in when we venture out....

update on wildlife; there was a herd of sheep grazing in the empty field and we saw something that looked very much like a wild boar or at least a havelina.