daydreaming

my day has floated by in a haze of daydreams ~ this morning, i was off in my little imaginary world, enjoying my imaginary life, giggling at all the thrilling things happening in my imaginary existence... and missed my stop to get off the bus!! jejeje... an old israeli man was poking my shoulder for a full minute before i even noticed that he was trying to get my attention, pointing out the window at the other baha'istas outside the bus waving frantically for me to get off before the bus drove away!!! ay, diosito lindo, despistada total que soy!!! twice today i've started walking somewhere to do something oh-so-important and realized halfway there that i have no idea where i'm going or why i'm going there... cuz my daydreams envelop me completely~ jijiji

~*~ dia sagrado ~*~

rosa solitaria en la casa de Abdullahpasha en Akka

dos dias atras tuve la oportunidad de visitar la pieza donde fallecio 'Abdu'l-Baha...y anoche se conmemoro su ascencion a la media noche, con 1000 personas, entre ellos peregrinos, visitas, y voluntarios del centro mundial, con un programa devocional en la sede de la casa de justicia, y luego con la lectura de las tablas de visitacion en las escaleras del edificio, mirando al santuario. un mar de almas caminando hacia el santuario, cirumbalando la tumba del maestro, rezando en silencio...

y hoy, simplemente tratando de mantenerme despierta, despues de una experiencia mas parecida a suen~o que realidad, algo tan mistico...

~ mi lugar favorito ~

cada vez que voy al santuario del bab,

camino hacia mi arbol favorito,

y me paro debajo de el,

mirando el mar,

disfrutando de la brisa,

y asi siento a pancho tan cerca de mi...

es nuestro lugar de encuentro,

el lugar en donde el mundo material desaparece

y nuestras conversaciones surgen,

en un idioma que no tiene palabras ni sonidos...

~*~ akka ~*~

el mar en akka... precioso...

este fin de semana visite akka, una ciudad como a una hora de haifa, en donde Baha'u'llah estuvo encarcelado por tantos an~os... tuve la oportunidad de visitar dos casas dentro de la ciudad prision en donde vivio El o Su familia... fue un dia increible, realmente... hay un dicho musulman que dice que un mes en akka es mejor que mil an~os en cualquier otro lugar... tan sagrado que es...

~ stairs ~

if nothing else, i will leave haifa with strong legs and bruised shins! :D

a new cultura

things i've learned en haifa...
~ sleeping time is most precious, cannot misuse it for things slightly less precious like reading and socializing ~
~ smiling knowlingly at a new couples before they've been "outed" is a bad, bad thing! ~
~ must accept that the work will keep rolling in, even if i don't feel like doing it ~
~ prayer is good ~

~ three more weeks ~

it seems this blogging thing is taking over normal communication... might as well join in the fun :D yesterday marked three-months since i arrived in haifa, and its has flown by in a way that you would not believe... i feel so at home here so far, even though my apartment still feels cold and beige (erg), and slowly by slowly i am becoming myself again, whoever that is, all i know is that it feels right somehow. before i got here me arrepenti de haber dicho that i was coming... 30 months seemed like forever, and it all started happening just as soon as i felt it was becoming more and more important to be close to family... but then, milagro de milagros, i was granted permission to go back and be with aria for the birth of (*)... it completely confirmed that this is the right place for me to be, and that even though it means i am far away for the dia a dia, i can be with mi familia en todos los momentos importantes...

i am so happy to be on my way, to go see her pansota, to hopefully be there as lil lil makes his (ok, so maaaaaybe "her") way into this world, to be present at such a tremendous event!! jejeje todos me molestan por estar tan obsesionada con eso de dar a luz, pero insisto que es algo tan maravilloso e importante, y que hay que llenar el ambiente con tanto amor, para que la guagua nazca sintiendose imerso en un oceano de luz...

just three more weeks... i hope beyond hope that nature's plans coincide with my own!