Eat, Pray, Love

My friend gave me a copy of the audiobook Eat, Pray, Love on CD.  I'd listened to it on the drive to and from the ashram, and I've been listening to it in the car since then, driving around town.  It's an awesome book, and I'm only half way into Pray.  I love her writing style.  It's full of descriptions and metaphors that really make you understand the way things are where she is.

I am finding, however, that she will say something that makes me think, and then my mind goes off and I realize I've just missed a bunch of the story.  Then I switch to the radio and find a good song to think to.  It's going to take me forever to listen to the whole book at this rate.  I would love another ride to the ashram so I can listen to more at once, but I don't think I can run away from home again for a month or two, at least.  My husband is sweet, but he'll only take so much of that. 

Instead of a whole weekend stuck with the kids, he just gets the little one Saturday night.  My daughter and I are going to New York City for a kirtan with Krishna Das.  It was one of those things that just fell into place.  I'd been on Krishna Das' website not all that long ago, and there weren't any dates in the area.  Then, when I got back from the ashram, I was wishing for more kirtan.  It's hard to come off it cold turkey.  I was checking all my favorites, and there was Krishna Das with dates in New York.  My daughter said she would go with me, although she asked if she could bring her iPod in case she didn't like the music.  Little does she know she can get a contact high just sitting in the room. 

In Eat, Pray, Love, she's been talking about chanting and the power of the Sanskrit mantras.  I believe her, and I am really looking forward to experiencing it again.  If you ever get the chance to experience one of Krishna Das' kirtans, go.  His deep voice will vibrate right through you.