When you can't get online everyday, it's just impossible to be bloggish. So much happens in between you can't keep a cohesive train of thought from post to post. I am pulling these out of my journal, because I'm finishing Week 3 in Belize and only now getting to update my blog.
Somewhere in Week 2, we had a glorious storm. Morry saw it far off and called to Rose and Rose called to me to close the windows in my side of the cabana. We stood and watched it approach - not just the dark clouds rolling in, but the rain falling way off over David and Alice's house. Then I saw the rain hit the cornfield between us and the row of Delarosa houses. It was like a combine bending the corn in a wave as it approached us. Then BAM it hit the tin roof like a cannon and every window was washed in the energy of rain. It was glorious. I love rain. Most people don't go to the tropics in the rainy season, but I love it. It's so dramatic. I went out front and stood and watched and took pictures.
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My schedule here is very different than at home. I wake up at 4:30 am when I hear Morry in the kitchen making his breakfast. I usually get up about 5:00 and have a morning regimen to follow before breakfast at 7:00. Breakfast is oatmeal with raisins and coconut. Then I usually have a contemplative morning reading and praying and writing in my journal and figuring out life. It's an amazing luxurious time. Around 11 Morry calls us for lunch, which is rice and possibly beans or lentils and lots of fresh vegetables stir fried or steamed. This is the meal to eat as much as I want (except then they tell me only eat what I Need so that my digestion process doesn't take up undue energy which should go to healing instead. That news ruined everything...) At 3 p.m. I have 30 minutes of oxygen which is accelerates healing in the cells. There's another energy machine I am supposed to be on after that, but both mysteriously broke. (As did the oxygen machine, as did my iPad. Both of those came back to life, but electronics in the tropics....I don't know.) Then at 4:00 Rose makes fruit smoothies of papaya and banana or mango. At 5:00 Morry serves us dinner which is a smidgen of whatever was for lunch. They believe supper should be very light and Nothing is eaten after supper. At 6:30 they watch a DVD. Sometimes I join them. First it was old Barney Miller episodes. Now we are working through four seasons of Touched by an Angel. At 7:30 Morry goes to bed and often so do I. Or I write some more and then sleep because at 4:30.....
I can see it's good for my system not to eat much at night. And the early morning schedule is good too. Part of the point of being here for two months is to have some of these things become habits that stick with me when I return to my own life. Your body does all of its healing and restorative processes - organ by organ - at different times in the night, starting at 10 p.m., so it's very important to be in a deep sleep by 10 p.m. or your body will skip those processes. So for healing, a crazy early night schedule and crazy early morning schedule are best. (Guthrie has been trying to tell me this for years and I just don't listen. He always comes and finds me at 7:30 thinking I should head to bed...)
These are such small things to say. So much is going on in my head and heart, and so many more experiences than these. Belize is wonderful for me.
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