Rugged Interdependency - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

Golden Highways Revisited: 1998a highly forgettable Lost in Space sci-fi epic, notable mostly for the great spidermutantvillain revealing his true colors at the dénouement of the story.•As he couldn’t be there to drive me himself, Edward had organized a limo for me atthe airport and, to my small embarrassment, it was the grandest of the cars pullingup at the United Airlines kerbside. I piled into the huge space – complete withcocktail cabinets and TV – but soon moved close to the driver to chat along the way.To my surprise she (Helena Havelock) had been to Ubon, our home province inNorth-east Thailand, in days gone by and had been part of various Buddhist outfitsover the years. It was one of those sweet, brief encounters – unlikely to be repeated– that recur over and over in the human realm – some strange circumstance bringsyou together, you meet and merge for the duration of a journey, a wait for a train,and then it’s gone. A contact innocent, pure and complete like a night-floweringcactus – one blossom, one moment and it’s over.She delivered me to Edward’s house in Tiburon where I found that Jean-Marie,a regular manager of Spirit Rock retreats, had been house-sitting. After unpackingI pottered for a while but, since Edward had still not arrived by 7:00 p.m. (3:00a.m. GMT) I called it quits and faded, delivered into the sound of the gentle wavesof the Bay lapping somewhere far below us.105