Seelisberg, Dec 1974

In December 1974, i went to live in Switserland for 9 months, together with a group of people. We practised meditation (TM), asanas & pranayama, we partied together, we danced and shouted, we burned incense and went for walks, we ate, prepared food, talked to the locals, ironed sheets, prepared beds for guests, went to lectures in the  evening, listened to tapes, loved and hated each other, had pujas with our superiors before our respective birthdays, made ginormeous cakes and 'blissballs' (i can give u the recipe), we had free massages and got given out to for spending too much money. We lived in a blissfull atmoshphere and it never left us...we wrote poems to each other and I have kept them in a big book which I kept all these years...

This is the first one, to my spanish buddy, i worked with cleaning rooms:

Poeme pour Alex:  Thanksgiving

Merci Ami, pour ta presence

pour tes paroles qui embaument

mes blessures les plus profondes

Merci pour ta sincerite, ton amitie,

pour l'attention que tu portes aux autres

Merci pour les promenades

dans la neige

Merci pour le paysage de tes souvenirs

que tu m'etales comme des cadeaux

Merci pour le regard de tes yeux

qui transpercent mon ame,

et qui prolongent leur faiseaux

jusqu'au plus profond de mon etre

Merci pour chaque jour nouveau

Merci pour chaque instant que je peux te remercier

ton aspirante amie,

Martine