Yup, to quote Maurice Chevalier, “I remember it well” – in other words, I remember you (of course) and I sort-of-remember the context, but all the other memories of that time are a blurry scrambled mess… Such is life and suchlike – a quarter-century washes memory down the drain-pipe along with most of the top-hair…

To get the weblog regularly, click on the ‘RSS feed’ link. I will happily admit that I don’t know how it works.

I don’t live in the same place anymore either. Right now I’m back in Australia, on a kind of working-holiday. To be honest I don’t actually know where I (supposedly) ‘live’ these days: there’s no single place that I can describe as ‘home’, anyway. For the past four years I’ve been based in Britain, but it’s clear that that time is soon coming to an end. In past few years I’ve been in Mexico, central and northern America generally, much of Europe, a few places elsewhere; the future looks likely to include Latin America again, and possibly down this way as well, but again don’t yet know where. Odd. A bit lost, perhaps. Oh well.

I’m still churning out the books, as you’ll see at Tetradian Books. Hope some of those are of some interest and/or use?

My best wishes to you and to all the West Coast Dowsers crew, anyway, if you would?

Last I heard you were in Australia, but apparently now you are back in the UK.

In case you don’t remember me, I live in central California, and I have given a talk for 25 years — especially recently about the Red Headed Giant and who they were in California — and you stayed for a while there, around the time you gave a talk the at Santa Cruz conference. Once I invited you to stay in my house when I commuted to a weekly job in Sunnyvale. It didn’t last long. You said there were negative power places in the house, and moved out.

Any way, I have read many of your books, attended your wonderful talk
at the conference, and recommend you and your work to people frequently.

Warmly
Louise

PS: I don’t live in the same place anymore.

Obviously the same principles do apply in sports, it’s just I’ve never had the chance or need to apply them there. (Others have, of course – eg. ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ etc.) Perhaps it’s more that I have a fairly extreme dislike of the implied violence in most competitive sports, particularly the mistaken belief that the only way to win is to make someone else lose – rather than that the real deeper competition is with the self, as you’ve pointed out here.

Doesn’t particularly apply in this specific incident, though – civil-unrest may be a near-battle but it’s hardly what I would call a sport…