New Vistas Of Possibility...
Today the dark rain clouds and grey overcast of yesterday has disappeared and the sun has come out again....
I went outside first thing and stretched on our wooden balcony, watching the morning light move across the rocky rising of the island, reflecting on the turquoise water in the bay...
We set off down our already familiar little road to explore and we have discovered another part of the island, Mama beach...
The tide was too high to run the length of our regular beach, so we had to climb onto a wall with barbed wire right beside it; as we were making our way along the wall, we saw that there was someone with the same idea coming the other way..
'Oh oh...' Anadi said, 'this will be fun...'
Passing one another would have been very tricky!
Time to go where the signs said 'private, no trespassing', we clambered over and darted along the grass in front of the private houses.
'I'm glad we're both happy to take the naughty path' I said, as we crept along over the grass, more Tsunami hazard signs marking the way...
We clambered back over the fence and jumped down onto the beach, turned left along a new path and found our way to the light bright Mama beach...
It feels very much like this island is shaped in the yin yang sign; on Mama beach the energy is very different, being here coincided with my own clearing... of course; it can be no other way!
The boats were bobbing in the harbour and the smooth pathways beckoned for interval training; I always look at paths and grassy stretches this way...! Although my body doesn't feel much like interval training at the moment, in fact it doesn't feel much like running!
Julia's very much 'not gone running' since arriving on Phi Phi island...
I am a bit weak, my appetite is low and the last two nights my body has ached and I've had fever through the night waking in the morning feeling better but weak...
I felt a bit fragile as we set off for our morning explore, I felt good in my spirits.
The unhealed aspects within me that reflected the residue of darkness and grief and sadness on this island, have had a opportunity to be revealed and so processed and cleared....
We ran and walked for an hour and a half and returned for breakfast in our home on the side of the rock...
We went up to the little restaurant on the terrace; it was completely empty, no other guests about...
We went to sit on a different table to usual, in the shade...
But no! It was made very clear that we were to sit where we sit every day!
The table on the edge, looking out over the view, in the sun...
We moved the table a little bit so that we had a bit of cover under a red parasol, and explained to Ond our host that it was a bit hot...
'Hot every day' he said 'hot everyday here...'!
We set off for the centre of town after breakfast and passed the rest of the family who were cutting and clearing the path, they stopped work; intrigued by our wanderings, they asked us where we had been... We had a conversation about where we had been and where we could explore next - in very broken English/Thai; we are a similar levels in each other's language!
They pointed up and said we could go up into the mountains next!
New vistas of possibility...
Later...
Anadi and I had a Thai massage side by side just across the street from where we have been working...
It was gentle in comparison to Boc, but it felt just what I needed today...
I still cannot really eat without my body reacting a bit, so I am drinking juice and a gentle massage felt very healing indeed...
My masseuse was a ladyboy, a very beautiful ladyboy...
