new beginnings.... i'm trying to keep a blog

i can't believe it's only been a month since i've left the united states. it feels like a lifetime. this always happens when i travel.
keeping a blog is a commitment! i think about writing in here, but i never do. i feel like i spend my time exploring outside and trying to maintain my sanity.
it's been since last may since i've had a stable place to live, the Harvest House, a vegetarian cooperative in Chambana. 14 people lived there, we each take turns cooking each other dinners.
now i'm living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. it's quite a neat place, definitely THE massage mecca of Thailand. It attracts all sorts of healers from all over the world, especially now in the cold winter where all these gringo bingos are from. the sun shines nice long and bright here in Thailand! don't be fooled by the sunshine in the day.... at night it gets cold, as Chiang Mai is right next to the mountains!
i'm travelling with my friend john, and we are attempting to keep a blog of our experiences. i will try to write more, but it's not easy for me right now, since i'm
today i got a thai massage for $6, and that was expensive! john and i found this herbal sauna for less than $4 for an hour, including body scrub, detox herbal tea, and shower! it smells incredible! i'm pretty much committed to going to the sauna now every other day.
tomorrow john and i start a private massage course with a blind massage therapist for only $55 (5 days)!. actually, here in thailand, the blind population has an interesting role. lots of massage therapists, musicians, i've even seen blind people carrying a boombox and dancing down the street. also, at the night market (HUGEEEEE bonanza of where you can buy anything and everything with millions of people) there were about 8 blind musicians in the street, all sitting in a line while people swarm to and fro on their way.
i'm thinking of starting an abdominal detox massage next monday. it works with pressure points, kind of like acupuncture. anyway, healing arts very much interest me, so off i go pursuing!
there's a hip yoga community here in chiang mai, lots of foreigners here to study healing arts and overall people here are all about pursuing healthy lifestyles.
i love it here!

everyday i think about writing
i want to write here
but i just dictate things in my head
hoping i'll actually remember them when the time comes to regurgitate
i was good at that
that's how i succeeded at university
play the game
doesn't require real intelligence to do well in the material world
just fear
i was motivated by fear
living up to my conditioning
family culture ego
like most everyone in my culture
trapped in a way of looking at the world
what is real intelligence?
the ability to discriminate between spirit and matter
thank you srila prabhupada for making the ancient teachings of india accessible to an ignorant human like me