Dan the man

Today this point in our lives my wife and I travel to Thailand every year to see her family. This year will be our tenth year, and we’re celebrating our anniversary as well as her sisters birthday. There is always a lot of celebrating going on there mostly because my wife’s family is big, very big, nine aunts and uncles with countless cousins big. So a lot of our time there is visiting family and they have their own traditions that we are grateful to be a part of, they’re all Buddhist and that offers a lot of tradition as well and then there’s personal celebrations with the monks that are beyond a spiritual experience. I have experienced internal peace and harmony and the most profound sense of self that I have ever felt. That’s the very best tradition I have. As a child growing up in the sixties our parents had their own traditions that they passed down to us and it was all we knew so it’s all we did and it was wonderful as a child, but as I grew into adulthood those traditions were not as magical as I remembered, but are wonderful memories just the same.