Saying Goodbye
This morning, Felipe came back for an joined breakfast. Before I had to leave for the bus to Belo Horizonte, we still had time for a prolonged check out and a final dragon dreaming celebration. We talked about the deeper meaning of Pinakarri: deep listening.
In the check out we reflected to the three generative celebration questions: What were the highlights of the past ten days, for each of us seperatly, what would we do differently a next time, what are our AHA’s (insights) we had. And again, it showed, how much richer the experience get when you share.
Finally, we checked upon our dream, we formulated in Matutu. Most goals we reached, not every goal perfectly. Good reason for a follow up 🙂
At the busstation, Felipe and Ana waited until I got in the right bus. What a warm goodbye! Basically, a kind of new welcome, again. Deeply, deeply touched!
Such a big contrast to some conversations back home, right now. This goes straight to the AHA, what deeply grounded, truly being connected means for real life relations. And: how much energy it takes to live in both worlds.
In the bus, 6 hours for reflection. Processing. Enjoying the landscape, pasing by.
Did I mention, that you see Beatles everywhere?
Minas Gerais, one of the biggest provinces in Brazil, is mining area. Back in the days, it started with gold and diamants. Nowerdays, its iron ore and bauxit. Most of the materials leave the country (cheaply) unprocessed, just cleaned. Brazil keeps polutioned water and has to buy the (pricy) steel back.
What’s missing in the news (locally and globally), right now, are the frequent, ongoing demonstrations and actions to stop selling those materials to weapon producers, who deliver their goods to Israel.
The hotel in Belo Horizonte was in a pedestrian zone, thus no taxi for the last few 100m. But, who cares? Hadn’t have any workout yet, today 🙂
After check in and getting settled, I was a bit hungry. On the way here, I had noticed, there were a few places to eat just around the corner. It was already dark and the neighbourhood started to change, in terms of vibe and energy, but still good enough. I had a quick bit at a place and went back to the hotel. Meanwhile, the only public were homeless people and security. Still, everybody friendly and quiet. Now, quiet, quiet. Around the corner, this was a six-lane ringroad, with a lot of noisy traffic.
I checked on Lizandra, for our meeting. She provided me some suggestions how to spend the day. Felipe and Ana check on me, if everything was going well. Felt like a warm bath.
