ANST - meeting of two cultures ... was: something else, but evloved

[j'lynn yeates]

On 28 Sep 99, at 13:51, keyna wrote:

> Sounds like you had a blast!!!

while the martial & yoga aspects were welcome, the best thing i took out that 
association (with the sikh's at their ashram in houston ...) was the 
development of a taste for green tea & kimchee

me and the mate were wandering down westheimer on a cold, windy, & wet 
halloween in our normal funky-weather gear - black leather jackets, leather 
jeans, heavy boots ... with our normal heavy walking sticks (aka "street 
maces") ... just a somewhat scary looking couple out enjoying the night (was 
still wearing the beard *long* at the time - near to belt, and we both had 
waist length hair worn down ... )

any road, near to the house we ran into a upset sikh woman was being hasseled 
by some annoying kids that bailed when we walked up.  she asked if we would 
walk her back to the ashram (did'na dawn on me at the time that we looked like 
"family").  so we wandered by and she insisted on introducing us to the 
members.  that was a wierd scene, definitely a "us" and "them" meeting of two 
barbarian tribes.  

the head of the ashram offered us some of the most blazing hot kimchee i have 
ever eaten (i think it was a test) ... when we both scarfed it down and truely 
enjoyed it, the ice was broken (wonder how many alliances have been made over 
kimchee ... ???) and they realized that while different, we were exactly the 
same as they were .... warrior types trying to get by on the "edges" of the 
civilization we were stuck in ... they on one pathway, we on another, ... but 
still pretty much the same).

thus began a long and productive literal alliance between our households... one 
of the things right behind Rice that i missed after i moved away ...

'wolf


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