Dear Clyde,
I am SO happy to be hearing from you! Still, I'll keep on writing because you don't know everything about here, and I make a point to share.
Besides the fish story, there is also a fishy story about a Thai girl who was sent here by the Thai Consulate. She seems to be a very nice and naïv person and, though she had had a hard time, seems now to be more relaxed. Despite the food, which she finds a bit strange, she feels welcome and thus more comfortable. So much so that, this evening, she was reading aloud to herself the Diggha Nikaya... in Thai! I asked for permission to sit around, and it was a wonderful experience to hear the teachings in an oriental language I had never heard before.
There with us was Manuel, a young student of Arts from Bogota, Colombia, who has been practising for some 3 years. He has already lived in Galicia, Spain, but finds South America beautiful and has been specially fond of Brazil since he was a kid, for apparently no special reason. Although he is melting with the heat, he also feels welcome and is very happy to be here.
The longer I stay, the more I love this place. Here you can travel the world without leaving its premises; you can journey into yourself without leaving the cushion; you can see yourself without looking at mirrors; you can listen to your mind in peaceful quiet; you can learn to hear the different sounds of the forest at the different times of the day.
Though I often wish you were here, it is also many times a relief that you are not, or I would forcefully be concerned about my looks. I would be feeling fat, oldish, sad about the pajama-looking-retreat-outfit and desperate about the uncombed sweaty hair, unavoidable in this weather!
Missing you as much as ever,
Bonnie.
P.S.: It's been so hot that even the fireflies haven't given out their lights as if trying to avoid warming things not even a tiny little bit up!
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