[Dialogue] Fwd: I bow in respect

[Mary D'Souza]

It seems like we are recreating our space of memories and so I am sending
this to the larger group

*David, Gentle Being,*

*Do you remember?*

·        *In Kendur our home/ashram was in a large, school  building. The
room behind was being shared by Dona, you and Cyprian and myself.  I think
there was a bamboo partition of some kind!! We lived in the back half and
you had the front half!!*



·        *Pune Division times: Gunaji Kale/ Lala Divekar/ Tim and Rose
Caswell and their daughter Jessica in Tasgaon/ Larry Philbrook in Baramati/
Adrian Rhodes in Kholapur /Jim and Lorrraine Patterson in Sholapur/ James
Latrobe in Nanded /Steven Pollanik*

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·        *Our cow dung covered floors.  I learned to do the job(mixing fresh
cow dung to the right consistency with water and spreading it with your
right palm) in Kendur.*

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·        *Our meals seated on the floor*

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·        *Carrying water from the community well to our ashram either on our
heads or in buckets and filling up the cement tank in the fromt of the house
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·        *Bab Rafos visiting us to tell us of JWM's cancer.*

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·        *The long bus rides into Pune and back to the village*

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·        *The railway station in Pune and the Shivaji Nagar bus stand *

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·        *Site selection with Cyprian.  Travelling with a borrowed car.  You
were the driver!*

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·        *Turning up late in the evening at a remote government guest hous
ein a deep forest  in Ratnagiri on a cold, rainy night during the monsoon.  The
care taker heated up some water for you and cooked you a meal including a
chicken curry.  He was also able to locate some whisky for you.*

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·        *The selection of Narayanchincloli village.*

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·        *The Rajneesh folks in theri hundreds in Pune whom we discounted*

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·        *The weekend over Christmas in Pune which was totally subsidised by
you and Donna.  I do not remember where we stayed but we had our Christmas
dinner at the Blue Diamond. Thank you.*

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·        *Eating guavas*
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*I remember…*

*You taking our 4 year old son Ashwath  to the Byculla Fire Station in
Mumbai*

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*The shiver in your voice and in your hands when you were stating what was
true for you*

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*Kendra and you sitting on a sofa on the second floor during one of our
summer programmes at Kemper*

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*Your patience*

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*Your solitariness and your willingness to be solitary.*

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*Your presence in **Delhi** both before and after the IERD…times of change.*

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*With deep love and great respect,*

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*Mary…still in Pune*

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