I will be leaving for the airport in about 7 hours from now, and I feel so ready to come home to the US. Don't get me wrong, my trip has been amazing, and I accomplished what I came here to do which was buy inventory for a small store and get to know some of India. I've witnessed amazing things...and yesterday I had a buffalo charge at me! I escaped from it...it looked crazy, it had a white tee shirt hanging off of one of its curly horns. I will miss the multiude of animals in the streets most of all...but I am ready to come HOME!!
As far as the peacock sightings...I continued to see peacock images and even a couple live peacocks in India, but I started to take the peacock sighting as less of a sign than I did when I was seeing them everyday in the US, since the peacock is the national bird of India, it stared to seem like less of a coincidence. But the other day, I found a book in a free book pile. It was by Alice Walker, and it's called "Temple of my Familiar." I grabbed it knowing I like Alice Walker and I needed some reading material. Well don't you know that the beginning of each chapter is marked with a peacock feather!! So far the book itself isn't really grabbing me yet, but the title is, "The Temple of my Familiar" and I am ready to leave this crazy, beautiful, horrible, smelly, wonderful, strange place that's full of Hindu temples everywhere and get back to the Temple of my Familiar. Were all of those peacock feathers leading me back home?? See you soon Mom!!
