Oakville, Ontario
Spoiled
This day was a day when I got spoiled. Alexander, a massage therapist and healer, came to the ashram to do some treatment on us older monks. I'm only sixty-seven, but another monk behind me, Dharma Prana, has reached his seventieth, and suffered a terrible stroke in '82. However, I happened to be in the front of the line and received the first fine session.
Alexander, amongst other things, was trying to read my mind. "You have many thoughts," he said of me. "There is much nostalgia and thoughts upon thoughts."
"Yes, that's right. I carry many concerns about others, always, but I'm happy."
He put me to sleep very quickly, and then I awoke and was whisked away for the second ‘getting spoiled for the day’.
Jay drove. Corrado came long. They are both younger monks, and age twenty-nine. We drove to Lakeshore in downtown Oakville to the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy where they sell Kyboot products, shoes made from advanced technology. I was overdue for a pair of sandals and took full advantage of my doctor's gift toward these wonderful orthopaedic footwear products. I tried on a pair of really good monk-like sandals, made my test run (walk) down the aisle of the pharmacy and fell in love.
I felt like a teen with new duds on. I felt like I was floating in the air. Later on I took them for an eager stride, once back in the big city of Toronto, at the City Hall.
I want to thank Richard Price, the salesman, and Jagannatha Misra, my doctor and the sandals’ donor. He treated us to dinner that night. We got spoiled.
May the Source be with you!
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