Where Do You Live?

Hi all

I'm curious as to where everybody is living (and optionally, where you've lived before).

These days (since 1992) I'm calling Vancouver, British Columbia home; prior to that I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia for five years; prior to that I grew up in a rural area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  (Hmm…it's also the case that I spend half my life these days living in cyberspace - I'm amphibious that way.)

spiral out,
arthur

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Right now, Kalifornia ;)

In the past, numerous states. Outside the U.S…….Japan, Germany, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Ireland, England, France….um, there might be one or two others.

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Wow Greg, You have lived in many interesting places!

I am originally from Chicago ( the actual city) and I lived there for most of my life. I moved to Ann Arbor Michigan for a change, and have chosen to stay here to complete my graduate education. It's a cool college town if you ask me! I walk everywhere and it is pretty culturally diverse.

I would love to end up in northern italy or in the south of france…

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Middle of nowhere Montana. Have lived in Leadville, Colorado, Riddle, Oregon, New Orleans, Louisiana, Russia, France and Ireland…

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San Francisco Bay area right now.

Before coming to sunny CA, I lived in…

Charlottesville, VA
Sedona, AZ
Austin, TX
Varanasi, India
Bangkok, Thailand
Surakarta, Java
Ubud, Bali
Pusan, S. Korea
Portland, Oregon

…and a handful of other places in the U.S.

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Hmm. This thread has been around for a bit. Wonder why so few answers?

I now live in southern California, between San Diego and Los Angeles, about 40 miles north of the Mexican border.

Born in Chicago, IL.
Grew up in Kansas City, MO
Universitied in Des Moines, IA and Columbia, MO
Worked in Yosemite Valley, CA,
Giant Forest, Sequoia Nat'l Park, CA,
and Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA,
More school and work in San Diego, CA –
and lots of time on the road in trains, buses, and automobiles.

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Born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Potomac, MD for 6 months
Wheaton, MD for 4 years
Vienna, VA for 14 years
Blacksburg, VA for 3 years
Radford, VA for 3 years
Chantilly, VA for 1 year
Fairfax, VA for 13 years

I don't get around much.

Keith

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I was born in Port-of-Spain Trinidad, where I lived for my first three years.
My mom brought me to Montreal, Quebec, Canada where I lived for the next 5 years.
We moved to Vancouver BC for one year (so my mom could finish her Masters)
We moved back to Montreal for another 5 years.
We moved to Carlisle, UK for one year (my mom was exchange teacher)
We moved back to Montreal and I've stayed there since…

I've traveled quite a bit throughout my life here and there, but mostly in different parts of North America and the Caribbean.

Namaste,

Nicole

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I was born in Toronto and lived there until I was 2.
From 2-4 I lived in Orillia, Ontario.
From 4-18 I lived in Collingwood Ontario
From 18-26 I lived in Kingston, Ontario
26-27, St. John's Newfoundland
27- 29 Happy Valley, Labrador
29-30 North West River Labrador
30 Sheshatshit, Labrador
30-37 Happy Valley Labrador
37-present- North West River…at the very end of the road of north eastern north america..at the Riversong…..beyond this place is a walking path called “tranquility trail”–literally, I kid you not!

I have spent time travelling, working or playing in Scotland, Danmark, France, Sweden, all over Canada,Mexico, Ecuador, various places in the United States, Florida, California Vermont etc….

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Jane, how did your town get its name?  I'm imagining a bunch of settlers hiking in the snow and ice, reaching a point which wasn't what they were looking for, but with some natural barrier which wouldn't allow them to go any further.  Shivering, one of them says, “Well, sh-sh-shit.”

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Marko (aka MarkD) has lived in:

1. the wild woods of western Pennsylvania ('41-'53)
2. the still-segregated Tuscumbia, Alabama ('53 only, left quickly)
3. Wisconsin '53 onward for most of adult life (mostly Madison)
4. Hollywood, CA ('63-'64), a great start to my first maariage!
4. Milan, Italy (Fulbright '67-'68, ex-pat '73-'74)
5. Sunny Florida (aka Clearwater 2005-7)

I think I could be OK almost anywhere now, but warmer is better.

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Geez, a senior moment.

I forgot to add five years in Chicago!
Bucktown and Rogers Park, 1985-90.
That taught me that I could live anywhere,
but also that I didn't have to.

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Gee, whiz, I'm even more boring than I thought.

Born and raised near Binghamton, NY, and lived there in various places until I was 25. Moved to San Fransisco in '88, then to Sacramento in 93. Been here ever since. Hope to live in Vancouver, BC, soonish.

Liz

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Right now I am living in Germany in Berlin. Was born in the Ruhr Area in Western Gemany and soon will work in London, Dubai, Portugal, South Africa and Dubai/UAE/GCCstatesat the Arabic Gulf.

Hopefully with many trips and travels to North America too. Not to mention all the seminars, conferences, confabs, workshops at whatever location…..

Cyberspace is not a trend,a bubble or somewhat secondary for me but a REAL NEW dimension which pervades everything. See the big experiment World Economic Forum is performing this year. I posted several infos about this on my blog.

And then there there are the worlds of imagination and open mind and open heart which nowhere can be located in time and space.

ALL of this is emerging simultaneously.

Cheers, still from Berlin, Albert

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Hi Albert

“Cyberspace is not a trend,a bubble or somewhat secondary for me but a REAL NEW dimension which pervades everything.”

Much agreement from this cyberamphibian as well.  Ever hear Timothy Leary's blurb on how he became an amphibian?   Check it out:

Chaos & CyberCulture

Chapter 1: How I Became an Amphibian

In 1980, Ronald Reagan, a screen person, became president of the United States. At the same time, the screen image of an Iranian mullah, the leader of a notoriously irritable fundamentalist sect, bacame the rallying point of the Islamic world. In the same year, surveys showed that the average American spent more than four hours a day neuronarcotized by the artificial realities and fake news-dramas on television screens – more time than is spent on any other waking activity in the flesh-material reality.

It was about then that I too found myself mutating gradually, imperceptibly, into an amphibious form. (The word “amphibian” comes from the Greek amphi [double] and bois [life].)

I began spending around four hours a day producing and scripting and directing the images on my personal screen. Some of these digitized words and images were my own. Some were encoded on disks. Others were phoned to me by friends and colleagues at almost the speed of light.

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ah, another Leary fan!

do you remember the ol' Mötley Crü song, ” Timothy Leary is dead. No, no no no no, he's outside… looking in”?

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Duri: ah, another Leary fan!

do you remember the ol' Mötley Crü song, ” Timothy Leary is dead. No, no no no no, he's outside… looking in”?

~~~~~~~~~~

Didn't know they did that; it was originally a Moody Blues song.

Leary had an interesting career, from acid guru to cyberspace-advocate.   Much of the culture following the same trajectory.  Who needs LSD when we've got Linux and Second Life?  :p

arthur

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Great introduction, Albert. I agree wholeheartedly about cyberspace. I'm glad you're here with us.

Liz

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Hey everone

Great thread, I thought I'd jump in as well and share where I've lived. Most of it has been in Sweden in several small towns that nobody here will have heard of… (Umeå, Boden, Uddevalla, Jönköping, Kristianstad, Hässleholm).

I've also lived abroad in a few different places:
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (4 years)
Aix-en-Provence, France (1 year)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (3 months)

For the past four years I've been right here in Malmö, Sweden - across the bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark. It's a very international environment here, with more than one third being immigrants, and under the age of 25 half the population of Malmö consists of immigrants.

Pelle

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Pelle, I've even been to Umea, in 1987 some time in June.  It never got dark, and I don't think I slept for more that 2hours the whole time I was there.  It didn't seem anyone else did either, always a beautiful place open on the street to have a coffee at any time of the night.  It is a beautiful city!
Jane

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Jane. What a nice surprise! Somebody else who knows Umeå. That's where I was born, that's where I went to university. Actually I've lived there three times all in all…
I agree that it's a beautiful place, and I sometimes miss the constant light of the northern summer now that I live in the south.

Pelle

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Yeah, but how was it in the winter?  Get much Seasonal Affective Disorder up there?

arthur

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Hey Arthur - image maestro ;)
Nice picture, you can see the church, river and the boat is actually a café.

Yeah, we do get SAD in all of Sweden though I don't have any statistics. You will find light therapy in most towns/cities, usually in one of the psychiatric clinics. During winter in the north of Sweden it's dark until 9 am and after 6 hrs or so of daylight it will get dark again… I heard they started a “light café” in Stockholm where everything is white and light, so you can go there before work and have breakfast while preventing depression :)

Pelle

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Hi, In Scotland we also have those very long Summer days, in June it hardly gets dark at all, dusk and dawn sort of merge into each other. And those Winter days when it's dark goung to work in the morning and dark again before you leave can leave you longing for daylight and sunshine.

Have lived here, in various places, all my life apart from a year in South Africa in the 1970's.
I do travel a lot, though and have spent time in most of Europe and visited both the US and Thailand a couple of times. Planning to keep expanding my horizons

Liz

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I reside in Melbourne, Australia.

Prior to that I was born in Melbourne, Australia.

I don't get around much.

Prior to all that I was my Original Face.

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As for me,

Grew up in Seattle, WA, 56-79
Lived abroad in South America, 79-80
Lived aborad in Finland, 82-86
In Olympia, WA since 1986

Currently spend regular time in the following places: NYC, Tucson, Montana, Colorado, Bay Area of California, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Blaine

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Hello everyone!

I love to hear about people live's, even if just a snippet concerning where they've lived…

So here's mine…

Born in north England, grew up south west,
lived in Germany for 6 months (where my Mum is from) Tanzania and Madagascar briefly aswell as passing through other parts of East Africa.
Back in England.
Then a couple of very formative years in Hong Kong where Integral and I met, and now Back in England, this time near to where i was born…

As for where and the future… Well… All of it!
More realistically ive got to see more of Europe, would love to see more of Africa, allways, but (somewhat unrealistically at the moment) i have a passionate interest in spending some time in the near east - Afghanistan and Iran - more for the culture, especially what has grown out of Sufism, though no doubt that is all but quashed under fundamentalism (east and west) and war. Some day, some how…

Curiously enough, although i have allways had a very wandering spirit, and allways will, i am happy enough to call Sheffield my home for now, and maybe i'll even break my record of staying in a place more than 2 years… who knows…

over to you all…

Love

Melv

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Born in Quezon City, Philippines and lived there until my marriage in June 1984.

Moved to Kathmandu, Nepal after marriage.
Lived for 2 years in The Gambia, West Africa where my husband worked for the UN Volunteers.
Came back to Kathmandu and has been living here since then.

Mila

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Hi there,

I don't know how I kept missing this thread.  I was born in Portland, OR, went to Alaska right after the earthquake in '64, lost my student deferrment, joined the army, went all over the states in training and then to Vietnam in '67.  Got wounded in '68, went to Japan, then Okinawa for a year or so, back home to Portland and school for a year or so and then back to Alaska.  About '92 I left Alaska and went to Portland again to start a company.  I travelled the US for the next 5 years, shopping the technology.  I lived for 3 years in State College, PA, in a motel of all places while being a visiting scientist at a couple of labs there.  Went home to AK at the end of '97 and two years later to India for several months.  I have travelled to MX several times, mostly Oaxaca.  I currently am back in AK but getting ready to move back to Portland for a short time to spend some time with my father - and then I don't know, not back to AK for sure - maybe south to MX after a stint in Vancouver BC.  I aim to get it down to one bag and my computer.  That should do it.

best,
Michael

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Hello, all!

I'm new to this thread, and I can't believe it took me so long to stumble onto it.

I was born in Geneva, NY
Grew up in Avon, NY
Lived in Buffalo for 4 years
Shreveport, LA for one year
Columbus, MS for 2 years
Ashburn, VA for 2 years
Lancaster, NY for the past 6 years

Nice to meet you all!!

Jeff

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Greetings all,

Born and raised 'til my early teens in Canberra, Australia, then shifted to NSW Australia and went “geographical” throughout New South Wales and Victoria for quite a few years. Currently living in Adelaide, Australia - the driest state in the world's driest continent - and getting drier every day!

Michael

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Born in Havana, Cuba
Grew up in Miami, Florida
Lived and Surfed in Puerto Rico
Rincon and San Juan

Airline Career:
Flew to and visited (sometimes extensively):
Caribbean
Latin/Central/South America
Lived in Medellin Colombia
Lived in Alaska and flew Salmon
Lived, Flew, and Surfed in Lima, Peru
Continental USA
All over Western Europe
Long stretches in Saudi Arabia
Australia and South Pacific

I now live in Leesburg, VA USA

–dragpa gyaltsen

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I have kicked between Orlando, Fl and Miami, Fl my whole life.

Namaste

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Hello friends,

I have lived more of my life in my thoughts and imagination than in my body. Presence eventually penetrated my resistance and touched me with her beauty and in-formed me, and I crash-landed in a body, noticed I'd been avoiding and ignoring it an awfully long time. A period of revelations and thaw commenced, frozen joy and frozen grief arising and arising, sensation and movement and patient observation became profound teachers, and brought me much integration and healing. This continues.

Geographically, I travelled to a few places of remarkable beauty and purity, and I was astonished to discover what I had never even conceived of previously – new landscape, new sky, new feelings and insights, new awareness. Then I began to find it in places of a humbler beauty. Occasionally I sense it everywhere.


Born in Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Raised in Natick, MA, then Wellesley, MA.
Spent the majority of my childhood summers in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, especially New Brunswick, near Shediac.
College in Swarthmore, Pennslyvania.
Six months in Grenoble, France.
Half a year in Boston.
Three years in southeastern Vermont, moving around a lot (tons of house- and cabin-sitting jobs in Brattleboro, Putney, South Newfane, Guilford, Marlboro, and just across the border in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire.) A short stint in Shelburne Falls, MA.
Moved to Cambridge, MA for two years.
Moose and Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for five months.
Portland, Oregon for ten years.
Wellsley, MA again for two.
And now, Arlington, MA.


Best,
Lauren

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It's been fun reading about everyone's geographical journeys!

My journey:
Point Arena, CA (0-1 y.o.)
Lockport, NY (1-3)
Santee, CA (4-6)
Baudette, MN (6-8)
Panama City, FL (9-10) - Dad discharged from the Air Force after 18 years in 1981
Niagara Falls, NY (11-18) - mother's home town
Pleasant Hill, CA (18-19) - family moved to Bay Area after my high school graduation
Niagara Falls / Brockport, NY (19)
Pleasant Hill, CA (19-21)
Concord, CA (21-23)
Antioch, CA (23-25)
San Francisco, CA (25) - father's home town
Walnut Creek and Concord, CA (25-26)
San Francisco, CA (27-30)
Portland, OR (30 - present)

My partner and I joke about living abroad to be ex-patriots disgusted with the current direction of the U.S.  Yeah, add us to the vast numbers of people that said the same thing before the last election!

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New to I-I pod, and haven't properly introduced myself, so I'll start from this perspective of the Whole Earth:

Presently in
-Melbourne, OZ, after a polluted stint in
-Mumbai (Bombay…toxic even living amonst the Bollywood glitterati) and before that in
-Macau (which I quite like) and
-Zhuhai (relatively clean holiday/sex city just across the Chinese border)
-Guangzhou for a year before that (Canton to most foreigners…mind-blowing) with time in
-Hong Kong
-Manilla and Cebu, Phillipines previously…that Asia trip coming after 6 years of global travel with primary bases in:
-Auckland, NZ and
-Las Vegas; and associate bases in
-Venice Beach, CA and
-London
-Instantbul was one of my favorite locals in which to dwell and
-Austin, Texas was home for 7 years, shared however with
-Colombo, Sri Lanka
-Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico and
-Golden Bay (South Island), New Zealand, where I had property for many years
-Hawai'i (most all of the Islands) was my second home, along with Golden Bay
-Bali and Singapore proved to be expansive breaks
-Santa Fe and
-Seattle shared equal billing along the way, with Eugene tossed in for a couple of seasons
-Colorado (Springs and little Wetmore) where my teacher Gia-fu lived (Stillpoint) was home spiritually if not always physically while he was alive and transmitting ('78-'85 was the period I was blessed to be with him), and during that time
-Champaign-Urbana, Illinois was otherwise home and my Alma Mater, with family in
-Chicago area where I lived as a boy after moving from
-Laon, France at the age of 8…and to start it all off, I was born in
-Bitburg, Germany

Wandering Taoist might be an apt marker on the tombstone…

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Born in Newport News, Virginia
Spent up til age 10 in and around DC/northern Virginia
Spent 21 delightful years in the swamps of Houston, Texas
Am now in Austin, Texas

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Head for many years

Head and heart now, for the greater part

Sometimes I visit the rest of my body. Would love to live there…

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Amazing how we are able to come together from all over the world to this “cyberspace” as a community.

Born in Chicago, IL, and completed grade school
Bloomington Indiana for about a year of Jr High
Finished Jr High and High School in Lincoln, NE
been in CA since (headed for the warmth at 17)
San Diego 3 years (my daughter born there)
SF/Bay Area ever since
Berkeley for past 25 years (my son was born here and I never left)

I've loved everyplace I've lived, but do not like to be cold.  Southern California and into Mexico are the only likely places I might finish out my life, if I ever leave the Bay Area.

Thanks for asking Arthur!

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Welcome, Rannah. Went over and read your profile. I had a similar not-quite-Methodist upgbringing. What is it about Methodists that it spawns such free-thinkers??

Liz

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Dear Liz,

After some thought, I decided to respond to your “free-thinkers” compliment. 

True enough my mother was a Methodist, and I was baptized Methodist.  My brother was never baptized, probably my fathers atheist influence I suppose.  But what I really want to say was my mother was one of the most remarkable, freethinking people I've ever known. 

She was before her time, so kind, considerate, and non-judgmental.  She was the single biggest influence on my ability to be open minded.  She never had a bad word to say, and when someone started to trash someone, even my dad, and in later years my stepfather, she would interject with some kind, rational, possible explanation for the objectionable behavior. 

She worked for AAA in Omaha NE for 19 years and was a highly respected and loved Vice President when she died, famous for her fair mindedness and good business sense.  She started as an insurance sales person (the 1^st woman!).  She was also the 1^st woman to sell tires across the state (!!tires!! now that was man's work).  She worked her way up to Vice President, again the 1^st woman.  She was passed over twice for president in favor of a man.  It was too soon.  Nebraska too narrow minded.  It did make her angry.  And it took a lot to make her angry.  Even then she understood and did not blame the decision makers. 

I loved her very dearly.  And I think of her often.  When I get angry and/or upset, or struggle with something, I frequently think, how would mom respond, what would she think and say?  When the answer comes, I know it is the right thing. 

Thank you Liz for your compliment. 

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Hi everyone.

San Diego is where I currently call home. 

Looking forward to engaging in some interesting conversations about an integral approach to things.  All I need to fight off is the lingering false thought that I do not have an extensive enough “I-I” background to adequately contribute.

I'm about there.

rock solid,
bob

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Bob, just remember that the only requirement to get into the pod is a deep interest in all things Integral. That inner critic is a bitch, eh?

Rannah, thanks for the great story. I, too, ask myself what my mother would have done or said in certain situations. I miss her terribly!

Liz

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Liz: Bob, just remember that the only requirement to get into the pod is a deep interest in all things Integral. That inner critic is a bitch, eh?

Word.  My inner critic is a bitch, is a lover, is a child, is a mother…no, wait, that's my inner Sheryl Crow…

Welcome to the forum, Bob and other nudecomers.  :)  Wilber loves you, this I know, for a (really long) footnote tells me so…

spiral out,
r.thor@effectbecaws.hln

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Arthur: Word.  My inner critic is a bitch, is a lover, is a child, is a mother…no, wait, that's my inner Sheryl Crow…

No, that would be your inner Meredith Brooks I think :)

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Currently, in Brussels.

Prior to that, from latest to oldest:

Amsterdam
Fontainebleau
Paris
Santa Cruz (10 years)
Berkeley (10 years)
Poona (India)
Paris
Budapest

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Arthur: Word.  My inner critic is a bitch, is a lover, is a child, is a mother…no, wait, that's my inner Sheryl Crow…

Ewan: No, that would be your inner Meredith Brooks I think :)

~~~~~~

I received transmission from Sheryl Crow; thank you for noting the origin of the lineage, though.  :)

arthur

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Physically I’ve been living in Canmore, AB, Canada for the last 4 years (paradise after having travelled and lived all over).
Emotionally I live in my body, which is where I’ve gradually moved to over the past 7 years.
Mentally I’m still in my head, but that’s no longer restricted to my physical form.
Spiritually I’m not sure - I gues the Flower Ornament is as good an answer as any - or none…

Frans

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Born in Pusan, S.Korea
Killeen, Texas 
Dallas, Texas
Austin, Texas
Santa Clara, Italy
NYC
San Francisco
Vancouver (2 wonderful weeks)

Currently in Austin, Texas. Seriously wanting to move to Europe. Possibly England.

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Hi, Lucidity!

Now I see the answer to my blog question to you:  not only have you been to Busan, you were born there!  I really enjoyed my time there – particularly hanging out after school or on weekends at Haeundae Beach.

If you scroll up to my entry on this thread, you'll see I've lived in Austin too – twice.  Both times to attend UT. 

Sounds like we've crossed paths a few times…in space if not in time.

Best wishes,

Balder

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Hi Balder,

I too lived in Austin (for about 7 years).  It is one of my favorite places (still)  I was there between 93 and 2000.  When were you there?

____

I have also lived in Tucson, San Diego, Boulder, Cave Creek, AZ (north of Phoenix) and now Redondo Beach, CA.

I didn't find out about KW until just After I moved from Boulder which was about a year or so before they launch II.

So much for timing :D

Gina

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Hi, Gina,

I really like Austin too; I would consider moving back there under the right circumstances.  Beats Bay Area prices!  (Though it's getting more expensive now…)

I was there between 1995 and 1997, finishing up my degree at UT.

Who knows?  Maybe we passed each other on Guadalupe Blvd, or in Zilker Park….

Best wishes,

B.

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Gina: I didn't find out about KW until just After I moved from Boulder which was about a year or so before they launch II.

So much for timing :D

~~~~~

Heh.  I lived in Halifax for the last two years Chogyam Trungpa was alive, and then about a year or so after he died I started taking an introductory meditation class at his center.  That's when I found out about him and started reading his stuff, and realized that I could have been studying with him for a couple of years.  D'oh! 

About a decade and a half later I met a guy who had moved to Loveland (near Boulder) so that he could work with Chogyam Trungpa - who moved away from Boulder about six months later (to come to Halifax and found the center I referred to above), before my friend had gotten around to meeting him etc.  So we had in common that we both just missed Trungpa.

spiral out,
arthur

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Hi Lucidity

England rocks!  Though it is also rather cold…and wet…and people moan a lot…and we suck at cricket…but we did invent Monty Python :)

What draws you toward our rugged isle?

Ewan

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Hey Ewan

What was that about us Brits moaning a lot? :-))

Juliee

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Hi Everyone

Lived in wirral (the greener neighbour of Liverpool (UK) aka: home to The Beatles :)….

until I went to university in Wales
then Liverpool
Thailand (Bangkok madness)
Hong Kong's - Lamma Island
back to Wirral

Doesn't look much like that does it!! hahaha but what a wild journey so far ;)

Lisa

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Hello everybody!

I was born in Bozen/Bolzano in the province of South Tirol, thats in northern Italy, bordering Austria. A beutiful place nestled between the Dolomites, a mountainrange in the Alps, and the meeting point of 3 small rivers…
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Moved to London when I was 26 (Boroughs of Neasden, Willesden Green and Blackhorse Road) and lived there for 5 years.

Currently I’m living in Chachoengsao, Thailand…approx 1.5hrs from Bangkok.

next destination…the Unknown…

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Markus: I was born in Bozen/Bolzano in the province of South Tirol, thats in northern Italy, bordering Austria. A beutiful place nestled between the Dolomites, a mountainrange in the Alps, and the meeting point of 3 small rivers…

http://www.fws.it/images-media/fws-wallpaper-bozen-autumn-mendel-1400x1050.jpg

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Hi
I have been living in Singapore some 43 or so years, minus one year (1986-87) when I studied jazz guitar in Los Angeles, and now you also know my age.

Johann here. Chinese male, uneducated. No, seriously. I m self taught and I am here in this pod to learn what I am able to, in order to grow and help and …grow.

Green goin on teal (with any luck)
Johann

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Hi Johann,

Welcome to the pod!

Being Chinese I'm sure you'll bring some interesting perspectives to the pod that most Westerners are blind to.

peace
pelle

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Greets to Pelle and to Everyone Reading This…
(my what a long thread.)

Being Chinese….Hmmm well I m not sure just how much Chinese I am. I was raised in a weird household that wasnt very Chinese culture, but Christian cultured. Being in Singapore most of my life I have become aware of how the Chinese view life, family, society, values, spirituality. But it wont be as insightful unless you consider that I m not looking at the Chinese from the inside out, but rather just as foreigners would, from the outside in.

Much Love in that Kosmic Kinda Way,
Johann

Re: Where Do You Live?

 Born and brought up in Rossendale Valley, Lancs UK
Rawtenstall; baby-toddler
Newchurch; 7-18
Manchester 18-21 at university
Belfast Northren Ireland 21-22 at university
Back to Rossendale (cheap houses!)
Haslingden 22-23
Rawtenstall 24-34
Haslingden 34-44

Spring/Summer weekends/weeks in Lanferres North Wales
Plenty of travelling but I'm a home girl at heart even though the inhabitants of 'sunny' Rossendale drive me crazy with their insular outlook (contradiction in terms I know).

Juliee

Re: Where Do You Live?

You are quite movable folks here! I’m a real bore in this company. I have been born in Turku in Finland, and have lived all my life here.

One summer I have worked in Stockholm Sweden, another in Germany.

My speciality is internal travelling.

Re: Where Do You Live?

Hi Irmeli,

Nicely put! The travelling and moving about is great - I’ve certainly done my fair share - but sometimes it’s just an excuse, a way to be too busy to look inside…

Also, no false modesty please - you know you’re not a bore!

Frans

Re: Where Do You Live?

Okay, calling for a psychonaut's huddle here.

Frans, I wouldn't call it false modesty when Irmeli says she's a real bore in this company. As a direct experiencer, you, of all people, know that the outward-bound travelers find people on the inward-bound leg of the journey rather boring, often cooky, off-the-charts and uninteresting

Feeling protective of my Irmeli here – and I say “my”  Irmeli cuz I'm absorbing her slowly in small savory morsels.

This is my experience in a nutshell, and please correct or add, anyone, if this doesn't fit with your take:

Friends & Family: Why don't you get out more and spend some time with us here in…. (fill in the blank)… doing… (important stuff)?

M: Cuz I don't wanna move while universes are rolling into me in uncontrollabe wave formations that take my breath away… not to mention my mind. And this could happen on the way to the supermarket…

F & F: (strained silence) But you HAVE to meet soandso!! They're so interested in… (bla, bla, amounting to making you more like them, because that's the way to Be!)

M: Uhm, sorry, er… actually, I really don't want to meet a single new person in my entire life if I can help it. Just wanna be with what shows up anyway, you know…?

F & F: (not spoken out loud) Well, fuck you, too. You bore the hell out of everyone who's trying to help you get ahead, bitch!


An oldish interview with Jody Foster comes to mind, where she shook her head when asked what great things she had planned next, and said, “I strive to be boring.”

Love that girl,

M

Re: Where Do You Live?

Hi Mascha,

Of course you’re right, but that’s just the outward-bounders’ perception - which wouldn’t be Irmeli’s per se…and certainly not mine or your’s, I hope…

Family - isn’t it fun :)? I could add my own version, but it would pretty much come down to what you wrote. The tribe trying desperately to keep you in their comfort zone.

I’m with you re. Jody.

Frans