Cross Canada Bus-Trip #8

Toronto. 1 am. Depart
Serpent Lake: foolish Ontario rookie planters going to their doom
Sudbury: Kid with facial tatoos playing gun shooting video games
Bus headaches are due to jaw falling open when sleeping
Wawa: SUV's causing very anti-tech sentiments
The Soo: Eating a cookie at Timmy's
Bus: Chatting up a women who lives on the northern most tip of Vancouver Island.
Blind River: Moose sighting
Lake Superior: 2 foot waves splashing into shore
Wawa: Elvis sighting in a red cape
Marathon: Entering Neill Young Country
White River: Hail the General Store: Guns, China dolls and Chocolate Bars
Acceptable Risk: If I were to die right now, it would be fine
ThunderBay: Roach's cab
Finally able to let go the city, the stress.breathe
Kenora: Flat earth country begins
Winnipeg: MEC and Giant Tiger 5 mins walk from the bus. Why are the streets so spread out in this town?
Bus: Guy with smelly socks reserves an extra seat for his feet
McGregor: Yet another faceless, cheerless prairie town
Radiolab podcast: 1/2 life of the autonomic nervous system much greater in womyn.
Brandon: Sweet thrift store around the corner
Virden: Prairie Dog sighting (before I knew what a prairie dog was)
Sunflower seeds: ultimate bus food
Prairies: History, Geography and Biology in 2 dimensions
Oh Alberta!
Calgary greyhound: A fortress
Rockies: Daunting yet mystically alluring. Stillness
Lake Shuswap: means spider because of the many arms it has. My fav: salmon arm because it looks like the tail of a fish
Sorrento: oh where have my feminist lesbian organic farmers gone :(
Merritt: Best damn Husky station u'll ever see. My home for the next 8 weeks

The Dogmatist

There are things that we do, that once were thoughtful rational actions but are now simply rituals.

It is thought that social policy makers in ancient India made the cow a holy figure so that in a famine people would not kill their best source of sustenance(milk), fuel(dung), labour(plow) etc. for short term relief. And now the cow is so abundant in India that it is problematic to everyday life.

Many things I have let go because of the very desire to NOT fall into the category of ritual. But it just seems that no matter what endeavour I take on in a state of conscious, rational mindfulness, in time leads to a hazy ritualistic adherence without very little lease on actual understanding.

To fall victim to this process - my meditation/spiritualism, friend and family ties, political and historical stance and so much more...

sad?..