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December 11, 2004
Des' first visit to Heartwood
Crunching up the hill in the thick of the morning darkness, I got to my car and was pulling out of Heartwood's student parking lot just after 4:00 am. Down the mountain to pick Des up, I was impressed: there was hardly any fog.
Amazingly enough, the bus was right on time, although it threw me for a loop dropping him off on the opposite side of the street than I was expecting. Then I remembered... the last time I rode a bus up here, the driver managed to zoom right past Garberville and hard to turn around and come back from the other direction.
When we got back to the school, we laid down for only an hour or so; not wanting to waste the day, we made it to breakfast and I showed Des around and introduced him to random people who also managed to make it to the first meal of the day.
Afterward, we walked more of the campus. I showed him the Point, the Labyrinth, and we went for a hike in the woods... took lots of photos, plenty of mushrooms coming up and other interesting things.
We got back in time for me to do some homework, i.e. give him a session. It was a little nervous-making, but also nice to be able to do.
Lunch was simple, less than spectacular for a guest.
Then Des had some alone time and I went to Reiki II. Oh my god. Subtler than my Reiki I attunements, not overwhelming, thank the universe... but so rockin. Soyka holds amazing space, and we did group trades after the attunement. I wrote a rough draft that may become a final poem... but I don't know that I can live up to what I wrote after the first level attunements.
So Soyka gifted me greatly at the very end, saying "You are very gifted." I about melted. I quickly said something lame in reply, and grinned like an idiot.
Dinner was lasagna, good but not amazing; I was sad that Des didn't get to experience the best of Heartwood's kitchen, but... what? Next time.
We hung out with Jana, first at the store... I ate junk food. We ate junk food. Mostly ice cream cakes. Organic, yes, but still laden with concentrated sweeteners. Sitting on the stools there, we drew runes and divination cards from the bags they keep on the bar, and chatted and ate. Eventually Jim wandered in, and we all wandered out together.
Ended up at Jana's room, hanging holiday lights and talking about who-can-remember-what. Jana showed us her toybox and the dildos she cleans in the Community Kitchen.
When we departed, the last item on the to-do list was sauna! Mmm. It was so good. I rarely make time for it, but had to tonight. When we were in Reno the place we stayed had a sauna and we tried, ineptly, to use it. Now, having had hydrotherapy class, I'm supposed to know all about saunas, so we took Des' heart rate before and after and I filled out a homework sheet for the session.
Twenty minutes later we were headed back for some much needed sleep.
Posted by Josh A. at December 11, 2004 07:18 PM
Comments
Dildos??
Posted by: Ari Moore at December 24, 2004 11:53 AM
Yes. Don't try to act like we didn't go into EVERY sex shop in Manhattan together looking for the perfect vibrator. All sweet and innocent like. ;-)
Posted by: Josh A. at December 26, 2004 07:56 PM
Ah yes, the eternal search for the perfect vibe. I still love the Pocket Rocket.
But (as you now know, from our phone conversation), I was shocked you massage school guys have such things lying around. I'd envisioned you on puffy, rolling Shiatsu-clouds, high above the worldly realm of sex toys.
Posted by: Ari Moore at January 6, 2005 06:30 AM
Like the Dragon in Sinfest: http://sinfest.net/d/20031208.html
I dunno about worldly, I think sex toys can be pretty darn out of this world ;-)
Posted by: Josh A. at January 6, 2005 03:40 PM