A Quest for Community
Sunday, October 26, 2003
After an uneventful checkin,
our big, new, Boeing 777 wide-body jet leaves LAX at about 12:30 am
Tuesday morning, Oct. 14 on the first leg of our journey to Auroville,
a 12-hour non-stop flight to Taipai, Taiwan. Kim told me that Singapore
Airlines is considered the best airline in the world and I soon realize
why. The service is excellent, kimono-glad China-doll stewardesses await on
us with gracious attentiveness. I'm sitting in the left aisle seat of
the 3-seat center column, next to Caroline and her husband John,
founders of Global Family, and co-creators of the Hummingbird Ranch
Intentional Community in Northern New Mexico with Katherine and Makasha
and a few other homesteaders. They're tired, so go to sleep soon, but
I'm so excited that I stay awake and watch Terminator 3 on the
flat-panel private TV in front of me (I have a choice of 20 or so
different free movies I can watch via real-time DVD). T3 has impressive
special effects as usual, but the plot is getting a bit tiresome, and
it's rather strange watching our new California Governor-elect acting
out the role of the Terminator.
