So I’ve just emerged from 13 days in a forest in Northeast Thailand with 30 people around the world at the Mindfulness Project, a unique sort of experiment in community building, meditation, and self-sustainable natural living. If you know me, you probably know that I’ve been talking about doing something like this for a really long time, and now that’s it’s over, I’m struggling to figure out how to explain this experience. To recount the sights and sounds and feelings of it, to do it justice. It’s not something you can convey through a casual 10 minute conversation, let alone through a few Instagram photos or Facebook statuses.
I figured the most honest way to do it would be to just transcribe my personal journal entries from the past two weeks (elaborated a bit more here) as I sit in a Khon Kaen hotel room, in transition between adventures. I could try to summarize and neatly categorize my thoughts (“13 Things That Inevitably Happen When You Decide to Live Off The Grid”!) but this way is easier. Just a warning that it is a fairly long post, probably because I have an unusually long attention span after going without social media for two weeks. Hehe.
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