Today was fantastic. In the morning I met J and walked to a temple. We met at 8:30 and I really, really wanted to keep sleeping at that time. Walking through the city in the morning was intense. There were people everywhere and lots and lots of honking horns. Most of the streets are very narrow and not fully paved so there was a procession of cars and motorbikes going by the whole time – each honking it’s horn while it moves past you. I really didn’t like it much. Afterwards I came back to my hotel and took a nap and relaxed. The room at my guesthouse is super peaceful.

I went to an NA meeting this afternoon at 4 pm. There’s actually quite a bit of NA in Nepal. They had 4 meetings tonight, but one was just for women. The meeting was primarily attended by Nepalese guys who were all very nice. They seemed to speak varying degrees of English so some of the meeting was in English, but most of it was in Nepalese. It was still nice to be at a meeting. There was also a nice Irish guy at the meeting who gave me some advice and showed me to where the NA people hang out in the city. They sit and chat by this square a lot before and after meetings. I think they are there all throughout the day, actually. It was really great to just hang out in a group of people. I also drank some of the milk tea which is so delicious. I really, really like it, but it’s got some caffeine in it which winds me up a bit. I’ll have to watch that.

I didn’t eat much throughout the day so tonight I gorged on Indian food. I ate butter chicken with garlic naan. It was so good. I could eat that everyday and be happy. I drank ginger tea with it which was also amazing. The total came to 430 rupees which is less than $5. Wow.

There’s something inside me that needs to come out. In some way, it needs to be expressed. Alanis songs keep coming up on my ipod when I have it on shuffle. I love her Unplugged album that made it into my hands so long ago. It’s got such a powerful emotion to it that speaks to my soul. I want to try to do something like that myself. If I focused on the writing it probably wouldn’t even take that long. This needs to come up so that I can heal myself and leave it behind me finally and forever. I hope that my higher power has that in store for me. I could block off a lot of time in Pokhara or somewhere else to make it happen.