Runaway Bunny, the son's version...

You fight the inevitable and therefore will doom yourself to dissatisfaction.  I WILL have my own life, you WILL have your life, this is how the world works, but this world also isn't that big.  

No distance is insurmountable; it is the way you perceive it and work to make the spiritual gap smaller that will ultimately define the relationship we have. 

Don't fight rock with water.

I have accepted the inevitable.  It is time for you (guys) to come to terms with it. 

Our relationship will never be the same, but in its place it will be replaced by a new relationship.  Not new people, just a new relationship. 

Enjoy it!   As long as we both wish to maintain a strong relationship, which I know I do, than we will never face an endless rock, but if you keep trying to pretend that you can still fight the rock with water, then you will get nowhere.

Love, Ez

PS: The Rain King is always just around the corner - -that's the magic of living on a sphere,,,

Thirty Years Ago in Nepal

Journal entry 

Nov. 5th, 1979

Tukche, Mustang

Nepal

"The pleasant moist air of the afternoon has swirled into somber grey clouds of dusk. Niligiri's veiled. The laughter has vanished. A lone dog on a stone wall barks to no one."

THE SONG OF THE TRAVELLER'S JOY

THE SONG OF THE TRAVELLER'S JOY FAIRY 

Traveller, traveller, tramping by 

To the seaport town where the big ships lie, 

See, I have built a shady bower 

To shelter you from the sun or shower. 

Rest for a bit, then on, my boy! 

Luck go with you, and Traveller's Joy! 

Traveller, traveller, tramping home 

From foreign places beyond the foam, 

See, I have hung out a white festoon 

To greet the lad with the dusty shoon. 

Somewhere a lass looks out for a boy: 

Luck be with you, and Traveller's Joy! 

(Traveller's joy is Wild Clematis; and when the flowers are over, 

it becomes a mass of silky fluff, and then we call it Old-Man's-Beard.)