Still in San Francisco

I'm still alive and well, however I can't always say the same about my internet connection.  Makes updating my blog a bit difficult, especially since I have to work it in between meditation, asana class, karma yoga, meals and walking to the health food store for wheatgrass juice.  Why is it that it always seems to go on the blink when I have time to blog?  Actually maybe it's on the blink other times as well and I just don't know it. I guess that would be like the tree falling in the forest, would it make a sound if no one was there to hear it?  Today was the end of the Navaratri celebration; it culminated with victory day - we had a beautiful puja at satsang this morning.  The rituals are quite inspiring.  Rituals seem to be something the Protestants never really grabbed a hold of for some reason.  It seems like the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholics have more ritualistic qualities to their services,  I guess the Protestants are more puritanical.  Well, if you ask me some incense and flower petals never hurt anybody!  Ah, but no one asked me.

The weather here changes at least as much as it does at home. Everyone is always joking about Florida, if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes it will change.  It's about like that here, yesterday it was warm & sunny (in the 70s) today it's sunny but rather chilly.  Go figure!  I just make sure I always have a sweatshirt with me and whether it's warm or chilly determines which side of the street I walk on (the sunny or shady.)  Hey, we may not know how to use a voting machine in Palm Beach County (hanging chads and all that) but we do know how to stay warm.

The San Francisco Vegetarian Society is having a "World Veg Festival Weekend" here in Golden Gate Park this Saturday & Sunday - so I'm looking forward to that.  I just found a link from their site, well several times removed, which took me to a site for the Palm Beach County Vegetarian Society.  I'll have to check that out when I get home and see what it's all about.  Who knew...

Well, I've got to run, time to go get wheatgrass juice.  Oh, just in case I post at what appears to be an odd time (like the middle of the night) I haven't changed the clock on my computer - it's my link with home!  So it's only 3:30 in the afternoon here.  Well, have a great rest of the day - I'm certainly going to.  In fact I might even spend some time this afternoon trying to figure out facebook - I haven't got the hang of it yet and I'm supposed to be showing someone else how to use it - talk about the blind leading the blind.  So I have to try to do a crash course first.  Ciao!