To Barbara Sher's French Retreat: Does sun cure everything? Quite possibly!!!

Day 7

I cant believe i am on the plane back to bangkok then London already!  What a whirlwind.  planes make great enforced focussed places to write.....

I just inadvertently deleted my draft blog entry here in note pad so I will skip detailed accounts of the last four days activities.  Essentially there has been many many cocktails, lots of swims in the sea and in Luke's resort pool ... A gorgeous long tail boat ride to a nearby island for snorkelling and kayaking (which being hotel mgr he managed go get us on for free as an 'inspection' for future guest referrals!!!).... Running with the local, hash house harriers in the jungle, followed by sculling beer from coconut shells in the circle... And eating bucket loads of fresh delicious out of this world thai food.

LUke has hooned me around on the back of his bike and whisked me to jungle salas with cocktails and and more yummarama food and I have blown my own hair right back with copius amounts of my own hooning around the island on my own little scooter.  I love it!!!!

Just to top it all off, a thai massage most days just to keep the body in good shape!!!  :)

Which now brings me to my present state sitting now at bangkok airport.... I think I cried the whole way from koh samui.  Somehow i have managed to finally let loose a fair bit of pent up emotion ... And I can still feel a lot of it inside waiting to come out.    Finally i am hardly thinking or stressing about work and am in the flow....

Which brings me to another noteworthy event yesterday ..... going to say hello to a hugely significant man in my life called Ole.  If you are reading this blog you will either have been to or heard about the Experience seminar that has had such a deep and significant impact in my life and Ole is the man who wrote it over thirty years ago.  He was just in the throes if retiring from facilitating it when I showed up just over ten years ago in England and had the rare opportunity to have him partly facilitating my GIT.

My overall experience of him is this is a man with eyes who see straight in to and through me with a knowing that is disconcerting yet incredibly loving and kind.

to cut a long story short (yes, I just wrote a bucket load about this and will save it :) ... we met, and spent a lovely hour together... He was so very very kind and what really got me was just how present he was with me.  LIke, he was totally intent, interested, leaning in listening completely, and that in itself I got emotional about ... The gift of really listening.  It still makes me tear up for some reason just writing about it now and I have no idea why.  Perhaps it may seem apparent to those outside of me?

In parting my biggest thank you and love to Luke for taking such amazing care of me this week, for your unconditional love, and the long, lovely honest and accepting chats.

Loads of love to you all
J

Ps i just woke up on the floor of my long lost friend margie's south london flat to send this on ... Ooooh I love London  More soon. Xxxx

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