Day 6, Saturday, June 26, 2015

Another beautiful day in the European paradise of Peloponnesus. Today Mick, Gill, Richard, Anna Greta, Susanne, Jan and I drove to Ancient Messini, incredible old ruins of an ancient city still being archeologically unearthed.

We had to wait for a long thunderstorm to pass, which cooled things off considerably and which I was not dressed for, but we all had a real nice lunch together while we waited.

It was amazing for me to picture all these ancient Greeks running around here on the 4^thCentury, B.C. That’s old.  We sat for a while in an Olympic-like stadium of ancient rock, picturing the kinds of games or fights that went on there.   In a stone amphitheater a crew was setting up a big speaker system for bunch of Tedx talks happening there that night—which seemed really out of place but kind of cool—but since they were starting at 9:00 PM, we couldn’t stay.

During lunch we had the idea that we should expand Mark’s 3P trek idea to a combined holiday sightseeing-in-ancient-Greek ruins (and beaches) with semi-informal 3P gatherings and one-on-one sessions with me. I like that idea a lot. There is so much wonder to see here, and plus the combination relaxes the mind and allows new insights to percolate easier. Next year! June or September. Stay tuned.

I don’t know if it was the very late dinner or something in the food or whether I was simply wired or what, but I had the most difficult time falling off to sleep last night, which is rare for me. I probably didn’t get to sleep until 2:00 AM!

I saw that Mick posted this on Facebook: “Having Jack be here in this beautiful place, an amazing group of people on the course (including my dear wife!), seeing through more illusion that I’d made up which allows me to reconnect more with the beauty that’s already in front of my nose within and without… It doesn’t get much better. Oh, wait… it just did yesterday!” Yup.