Sunday, February 18. The second training day went well, judging by what participants said in the closing circle. That is always very gratifying. But the strangest thing happened to me in the middle of the day. The morning started well, with people sharing from the heart, then we took a break, then did a deep listening activity. As we were processing the deep listening activity back in the full group, I felt the feeling in the room drop—very unusual because in my experience most deep listening activities elevate the feeling level. Then we broke for lunch, and on my way walking back to my apartment during lunch, I had the strangest thought. Suddenly I did not feel like teaching the Three Principles anymore. Something felt stale, off-kilter, within me. It felt like I was ready to retire. But I had to dig deep and rally because the show must go on. The afternoon session picked up considerably and the feeling rose once again. So how I feel now? I’m not really sure. But during this trip I have two more trainings to pull off, so we’ll see how I feel then. It really took me by surprise, though. I was supposed to meet Terri for dinner but I had to beg off because I was much too exhausted and I didn’t feel like talking with anyone after the day. So I walked over to the food court to get dinner and discovered I was too late. The mall here closes at 5:00 PM, which is unheard of in the U.S. and Europe, so I stopped in one of the two restaurants open on the outskirts of the mall, brought a chicken wrap back to my apartment and ate watching the Olympics. When that ended I watched what to me was a very disturbing documentary about Spring Break and the way college kids have sex and expect it these days, and where there is so much peer pressure to do it. It is very unlike the free love movement in the hippie days; there is no love here at all.