Saving many tourists with my power bank → I could have probably financed much of my drinks at Starbucks via my powerbank and it would have already repaid its value by the countless drinks I have been offered.
El Apagon
Neuer Tisch
red carnations
running around miradouros
dancing at miradouros
Fado → Saudade → Changing up my meditation to shikantaza
Tram 28
Metro Art
Pastel de Nata (vegan?)
African tour → Naky → Restaurant
Growing out my hair
Antidepressants
Marcus Therapy
I Solo Balboa
Sintra
Hania Rani
Simo <3
Joao
Growing out my hair
Magpie hanging out with Chris & Karla
Sonntags einkaufen trägt zum entspannten Lebensgefühl bei
Tourguide for London found
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Registration opens June 1st
Arriving to Lisbon with the Flixbus via the bridge overseeing the lagoon. Crashing a solo jazz course and people already telling me how brave I am to jump into a jam circle and inviting me along to come to the social tomorrow, even though I didn’t even talk with them. Just, proactively! I am also sooo inspired by the Solo Jazz class. There are some AMAZING, as in, MINDBLOWINGLY GOOD, dancers in that class. It makes me want to learn how to be better, especially after the festival in Barcelona. There is so much happening and I struggle to find the time to just… process it. I am building up a processing backlog.
Did I mention that I hate cobblestones? I hate them. Judging by the blisters forming on both of my hands, my suitcase might as well not have any wheels at all as I arrive at a local Starbucks office exhausted from dragging my suitcase around like a brick for half an hour. This was downhill… once I return to my grandma’s place, I will review whether I can make the one-bag approach work by trimming down my belongings to the bare necessities.
For now, it is time to work.
Relate the second mode of Meditation to Focusing.
Postal card for Barman: hope everything is okay with
Simo, mention the book club on racism and something you have changed in your life since. Something really concrete.
I asked my host for the measurements of the table. He immediately sent me the measurements and proposed to buy a new table. The old one would have been fine, but hey, this is a digital nomad’s heaven. (You have no idea how many places immediately disqualify for lack of a proper table you want to work at 8h per day. Working in cafés can be nice, but searching for sockets, background noise during online meettings, and running out of battery power get old real fast.
Tram ride
Fado
Segue into the meditation retreat by mentioning the concert by Hania Rani I attended. What it evokes within me. That it creates a very unique sense of inner spaciousness. Describe a bit more, relisten to her while I write & rewrite these lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3B97N67Cw
An album composed in a former senatorium in the Swiss mountains with the backdrop of a sense of displacement.
Reread the Tenkei Roshi book, use a quote, and use the spirit for foreshadowing. Talk about the sense of spaciousness and how precious it is. I wish I could live there all the time.
In the coming days, I know I will live in this special place more than I ever have, for tomorrow I will leave the port of Lisbon behind to spend the last week of spring at the Keiryuji monastery, a secluded Zen temple in the Spanish Pyrenees. FINAL HOOK SENTENCE.