An Offering of Leaves

 ENGLISH VERSION

Today I was having lunch with Erin at my favorite place in Basel.  Erin is one of my yoga students - I call her "Kiddo"- and now she is a yoga teacher too! She was my first apprentice and I feel very connected to her. Our birthday is the same day, but she is like eight years younger. 

She is from California and I am from Mexico City. We get along most of the times really good. Sometimes we trigger stuff in each other, but it's fine. We learn from each other. 

So we were having this conversation about the conflicts between our homelands -Mexico & the USA- in the neutral territories of Switzerland, at a restaurant called Hirscheneck, very left-wingy, in which the waitress is covered with piercings and tattoos. An atmosphere of tolerance. We love to go to this place.

We were talking about how sad is the fact that the new law of Arizona, the border double wall between our countries and other issues are setting so much anger and resentment. I kept a short silence (which if you know me, you know it's sometimes hard). I found meaningful that Kiddo is from California and I love her so much. She seems to like me too. So, I felt some joy because we stay peaceful at least between ourselves. 

I went home and found some books I had to take to the yoga center. We have this shelves full of books for the students, they can take them home for free. We trust them completely, they just leave a note and they can bring them back whenever they finish reading it. (By the way: bring back those books!) I found my beloved teacher Ruthji's book called "An Offering of Leaves". I always like to open it just randomly, and I did. 

I found this story called "What Can I Do?" and read it again. It was so inspiring and significant, it just fit the theme Kiddo and me were talking while having our punk lunch. So I asked myself, what can I do? and decided to translate the Ruthji's story to spanish, finally finish this blog and share it with all my spanish speakers friends. 

Enjoy.

with love,

Dan

FIND RUTH'S BOOK AT:  http://www.amazon.com/Offering-Leaves-Ruth-Lauer-Manenti/dp/1590561503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280856036&sr=8-1