Sunday the 28th
Began with an early morning breakfast with Justine and she took us over to
meet with Zena, a Yoga Master and founder of Dakini Yoga. We were with her
for a number of hours and had a variety of moving experiences including
learning about her project in India, the dance that she teaches, an
interview, and a healing ceremony with blessings.
We left there to go over to Maria's house and arrived at three thirty only
to find out that Maria's house required two keys to allow us entry and we
only had one. We called Justine and informed her of our misfortune and
arranged to meet her back at her house. We arrived about an hour early,
and as we experienced a time lag, I stopped people on the street and "got
the conversation going". We met Sasha and his girl friend from New
Brunswick. He is working the night shift for the pipe company and intends
to make his home here in Alberta. His girlfriend is cooking potatoes to
help make ends meet. They seemed to be li9ving the Canadian dream and I
hope that they will stay in touch and let us know if he gets his gig on the
big oil rigs as is his plan. We also met Trevor and Fred from
Saskatchewan. Trevor works with disturbed children and Fred works in the
"automation" department at a water facility construction plant. He parred
three holes to-day - one was a par five 500 yarder. He was on in two and
three putted. He set his goal to par nine holes. We had a good chat and
likely will connect again in the future. Shawna from Vancouver Island came
by and she is a student at the university studying education. We talked
with her about our program and asked her to introduce it to her teachers
and report to us on their reactions to our materials. She said she would.
She had a positive story about the Alberta Telephone company that had just
given her free call display for a month. We also met Odette and Kert who
were out for a walk on their first date - a blind date through a dating
service. Odette is an educator with the French Board and we asked her to
consider our homepage for some involvement.
Justine finally showed up and we quickly organised ourselves and went over
to the Sai Baba Center to hear a guest Swami (His Holiness, Revered Shri
Swami Divyananda Saraswati Maharaj) present a discourse on "oneness" (God
is One, Ways are Many). We had a discussion with him after the
presentation and he not only blessed our World Citizenship Challenge, he
invited governments everywhere to support
our initiative. (see video)
A group of us went out for dinner, and I came home exhausted and after
inputting today's notes fell off to sleep.