USA TRIP
ServiceSpace
--Jose Ramon
4 minute read
Jul 27, 2014

 

Just few days ago I arrived to the place in the world we call USA.

From the very first moment people here have been unbelievable helpful.

I arrived to the airport and my phone had no battery. I have no adapter for the American plug in so I had to go and look for internet connection to check the phone number of my dear Rachana who was picking me up in Los Angeles Airport.

I went and ask to an airport worker in one of these information desks. She first directed me to a computer near by, but the computer was not working so I came back. Then she kindly offered me her personal computer to look for the number! I was already very happy so I decided to give her one of our heart pins. I was about to leave and then she tells me: “maybe you want to use the office telephone to call your friend??” Sure I will!!! Very cute lady!!!

When I left the airport I took the bus and I have no clue why, but the bus driver invited me to the ride… I was the last in the cue for paying, we had little interaction, I told her that I was from spain and she just told me: “Merry Christmas, you don’t pay today”.
Sometimes I have the feeling that people know that I have gifts with me and they want to receive them!hehehe Spontaneously I gave her another heart pin which she loved!!! Rachana, who was already with me said to her that what she just did was one of the nicest things she had ever seen happened in Los Angeles. Probably after the Lakers world championship celebrations…

After such welcoming everything has gone well. We had the Manav Sadhna retreat intertwined with the empty hands community gathering and I got to share few stories on Spanish experiments on community building and inner transformation.
I got to see my dears Nimo, Ajay, Virenbhai or Anjalididi, to mention some, and got to know other amazing heroes like Dave and Audrey.

After that I have been visiting intentional communities in Missouri (Thanks Nimo and Audrey and Didi!!). Possibility Alliance, Sand Hill Farm, and the Eco village Dancing Rabbit. All of them are beautiful communities who are bringing so much care to the land and trying really hard to create spaces for people to enjoy the journey and spread compassion and love with the work they do.

The Possibility Alliance for example, has various spaces where people tell each other all the beautiful things they are or they have done. They also have a farewell ceremony where everyone tells nice things to the person leaving. At the end of it they kind of hold all of the universal blessings and send them into the chosen one in the form of a group hug.

Last little story of the week! When I moved from the Possibility Alliance to Sand Hill I did it by bicycle. Friends in the PA lend me a bike so I could undertake the 50 miles in between communities. When I arrived near by Sand Hill it was already late and starting to be dark. The entrance to the farm is not very clear so I couldn’t see it. I went to the first homestead with light I saw. Some funny thoughts came around the possibility that the house could be home for any kind of serial killer. I just laughed. I knock on the door, and the friend in front of me kind of looked like a typical Hollywood serial killer, but I trusted.

He was really kind and brought me to the Sand Hill Farm. On the way he asked me about my job and I told him about some of the little experiments I have been part of here and there. Then he asks me: are you Christian? I say: I have been in India for 2 years and I can tell there is good people everywhere, no matter culture or religion, that’s what is important for me. Then he says: I agree, I see Christ in the good people, I see he is alive in them, and I understand that in other cultures they may see other goodness examples as the inspiration for their lives so I really respect them too. Not bad for a supposed serial killer!


1st august I am going to Denver and then around 8th I will be in California!!See you there!!!

 

Posted by Jose Ramon on Jul 27, 2014


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