Wat Pa Sukato, My Oasis

Per last blog entry, I finally get myself to write while my memory is still vivid.  The camp schedule can be found here.  To present it in the actual time order, I decided to create a set of links, one for each day, instead:

• Day 1: Thurs March 18, 2010
• Day 2: Fri March 19
• Day 3: Sat Mar 20
• Day 4: Sun Mar 21
• Day 5: Mon Mar 22
• Day 6: Tues Mar 23
• Day 7: Wed Mar 24
• Day 8: Thurs Mar 25: not particularly interesting.  I left after breakfast without saying goodbyes to Luang Pee Tum and Phra Ajahn Note as they were having meals.  I didn't want to bid farewells to my girls either as I didn't like having to say nice things one often says when leaving.  The first half hour of driving was terrible; I didn't want to leave.  I felt like I was mentally at Sukato but physically driving.  I was wondering about the red-shirt rally and if it was still going on.  The police checkpoints along the route answered that.

I forgot to mention that I said thank-you and good-bye to K. Wichai at Sukato, and he asked if I'd come again.  I said, definitely, if I don't die before then.  Sometimes, my spoken words reach my mouth before being processed in my brain (my gut brain in operation, perhaps?).  I love my answer but I didn't see where it was coming from.

My next visit is scheduled to be in August during the public holiday where a group of us, led by P'Ngao (พี่เงาะ), would go there to make an off-season offering (ทอดผ้าป่า).  If I can manage, I may go there sooner than that.

Either I was becoming slower or I had more to say, but this time around, this chronicle took many days to finish.