Comments on: Mul Bandh Movers on the Road - Summer Solstice 1975 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/ On the Spiritual Path... Memoirs and Writings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:57:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Siri Ved Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-170 Siri Ved Kaur Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:25:37 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-170 In reply to Sat Kartar (my bud in phoenix)... I hope this doesn't sound too hokey.... but, "do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around... that's what it's all about!" and to Sat Kartar (my daughter in Durham)... You are so amazing. Hope you're having a successful trip to Atlanta ;-) love & light to all In reply to Sat Kartar (my bud in phoenix)… I hope this doesn’t sound too hokey…. but, “do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around… that’s what it’s all about!”

and to Sat Kartar (my daughter in Durham)… You are so amazing. Hope you’re having a successful trip to Atlanta ;-)

love & light to all

]]> By: Sat Kartar Kaur (Durham) http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-168 Sat Kartar Kaur (Durham) Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:30:51 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-168 I was a little busy when I posted before (I didn't expect you to actually post that!) but now I will take the time to say that I have a fabulous mother! While most of you reading this know us and knew that already, I just wanted to point out we turned out just fine. There are no perfect parents. I have a loving and caring mother who has always done what she thought was best for her children, and let us turn out to be the people that we are. So for that I am grateful. I was a little busy when I posted before (I didn’t expect you to actually post that!) but now I will take the time to say that I have a fabulous mother! While most of you reading this know us and knew that already, I just wanted to point out we turned out just fine. There are no perfect parents. I have a loving and caring mother who has always done what she thought was best for her children, and let us turn out to be the people that we are. So for that I am grateful.

]]> By: Sat Kartar Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-167 Sat Kartar Kaur Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:18:11 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-167 Dear Siri Ved Kaur, As I read your recantation about your innocent ignorance on childcare, it helped me to feel better about recently looking back on the past and realizing some ways I neglected my children when they were young. Lately, I've remembered things in their childhood I wish I could have done differently. In spite of my errors and shortfalls they are strong grounded young men(probably more grounded than I've been most of my life!) who are finding their way in the world, and about who they are. Your piece helped me come to some peace with the guilt and sadness I have recently felt about what really was ignorance on my part. Love, Thanks and Blessings, Sat Kartar Kaur(from Phoenix) Dear Siri Ved Kaur,
As I read your recantation about your innocent ignorance on childcare, it helped me to feel better about recently looking back on the past and realizing some ways I neglected my children when they were young. Lately, I’ve remembered things in their childhood I wish I could have done differently. In spite of my errors and shortfalls they are strong grounded young men(probably more grounded than I’ve been most of my life!) who are finding their way in the world, and about who they are. Your piece helped me come to some peace with the guilt and sadness I have recently felt about what really was ignorance on my part.
Love, Thanks and Blessings,
Sat Kartar Kaur(from Phoenix)

]]> By: SKK http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-147 SKK Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:30:15 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-147 Hi mom! Here is a page hit from Atlanta! Hi mom! Here is a page hit from Atlanta!

]]> By: Siri Chand Singh Khalsa http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-122 Siri Chand Singh Khalsa Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:11:36 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-122 Thank you so much for the memories! I came upon the Ashram when I was 18 back in '71...a lot has happened and I'm back on the path again (even though I never actually left!).. keep up maybe I'll add something to the mix. Wha Guru! Thank you so much for the memories! I came upon the Ashram when I was 18 back in ‘71…a lot has happened and I’m back on the path again (even though I never actually left!).. keep up maybe I’ll add something to the mix. Wha Guru!

]]> By: Siri Ved Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-118 Siri Ved Kaur Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:55:57 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-118 The group I caravaned home with had also caravaned to Solstice, with the big blue moving truck full of furniture for SSSji's house. I think that's when the guys all came up with the name Mul Bandh Movers... and it stuck. We even contemplated getting t-shirts made. I expect their trip to NM was just as fun/interesting as the trip home. When I wrote this piece, I started out really just remembering the swim in the river, the drive out into the desert, and the carefree nature of the whole trip... that's all I intended it to be. Once I got going the story took its own course. One of the greatest things about writing is what is revealed in the process... the story ended up being a lot more than just a tale of driving through the desert, and brought me to look with more depth and clarity at myself. I took the post down a couple weeks ago, because I felt it didn't ring true. I wasn't comfortable with the ending. It originally said something like "I've thoroughly explored the world of guilt and, always the square peg, don't have a place there anymore." It had a happily ever after tone to it. But, I realized I still do feel now and then guilty about the ways in my life I have hurt my kids (emotionally) or "could have been a better mom." Anyway, it didn't ring true to me, I deleted the post, and sat on it for two weeks. I put it back up for two reasons: first of all, no one else has submitted anything! (hint) and second, I felt it was a good story that others could resonate with on some level. I know I am not the only parent to have these feelings. I know I am not the only person "in 3HO" who never questioned anything. And besides, I found all these great solstice photos (I didn't have very many from 1975). Thank you for your comments. Feedback from readers is so very much appreciated. Glad to know you are enjoying our tales. svk 3/11/07 I just want to add that my daughters are the greatest young women... I am so grateful that they are in my life. And my advice to parents everywhere, your kids are living their lives, not yours. Love them, nurture them, and let them be who they are. The group I caravaned home with had also caravaned to Solstice, with the big blue moving truck full of furniture for SSSji’s house. I think that’s when the guys all came up with the name Mul Bandh Movers… and it stuck. We even contemplated getting t-shirts made. I expect their trip to NM was just as fun/interesting as the trip home.

When I wrote this piece, I started out really just remembering the swim in the river, the drive out into the desert, and the carefree nature of the whole trip… that’s all I intended it to be. Once I got going the story took its own course. One of the greatest things about writing is what is revealed in the process… the story ended up being a lot more than just a tale of driving through the desert, and brought me to look with more depth and clarity at myself.

I took the post down a couple weeks ago, because I felt it didn’t ring true. I wasn’t comfortable with the ending. It originally said something like “I’ve thoroughly explored the world of guilt and, always the square peg, don’t have a place there anymore.” It had a happily ever after tone to it. But, I realized I still do feel now and then guilty about the ways in my life I have hurt my kids (emotionally) or “could have been a better mom.” Anyway, it didn’t ring true to me, I deleted the post, and sat on it for two weeks. I put it back up for two reasons: first of all, no one else has submitted anything! (hint) and second, I felt it was a good story that others could resonate with on some level. I know I am not the only parent to have these feelings. I know I am not the only person “in 3HO” who never questioned anything. And besides, I found all these great solstice photos (I didn’t have very many from 1975).

Thank you for your comments. Feedback from readers is so very much appreciated. Glad to know you are enjoying our tales.
svk

3/11/07
I just want to add that my daughters are the greatest young women… I am so grateful that they are in my life. And my advice to parents everywhere, your kids are living their lives, not yours. Love them, nurture them, and let them be who they are.

]]> By: Gobinde Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-117 Gobinde Kaur Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:10:22 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-117 I wondered about this story and why it disappeared...but now it's back! Love the story, and especially the photos (they carry the atmosphere so well). Why the name "mulbandh movers"? (just curious...) I wondered about this story and why it disappeared…but now it’s back!

Love the story, and especially the photos (they carry the atmosphere so well).

Why the name “mulbandh movers”? (just curious…)

]]> By: guru nam kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-116 guru nam kaur Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:55:22 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/06/mulbandh-movers-on-the-road/#comment-116 I loved those early days of Solstice, when we did 8 days of silence and 8 days of Tantric. and took these long yatra's with many experiences on the road. Keep writing I love your stories I loved those early days of Solstice, when we did 8 days of silence and 8 days of Tantric. and took these long yatra’s with many experiences on the road. Keep writing I love your stories

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