Way back in the early years in the centre, i was at a Pizza Hut one evening with a few of the Canberra boys when out of the blue our centre leader said to me “Eamon you should go live in America for a while”. It hit me like a sledge hammer! It was like someone from above was speaking through him. It was just what i needed as i was totally lost at the time. So that April i packed my bags, got a small bank loan and took off for celebrations.

Sitting in Progress Promise (the hall above a garage Guru used for functions in Queens) one night, i bumped into Aparajita a Boston disciple. He said he had work going at his new Boston restaurant, The Oneness Fountain Heart, so i jumped at it and so started a short but fulfilling chapter in my life.

Life was ideal in Boston, in hind-site, Guru picked a good place for me. The people are normal in Boston-as for New Yorkers, its a god damn freak show. I used to walk down the street in Jamaica after functions just to look at the black people. It was better than the circus! Every black person had a different hair do, and totally different clothes. Black people have life energy.Australians are sooo boring.

Everything in Boston was good. The centre was great, no deluded politics or egos (blah blah) like Australia. The city is nice. MIT was just around the corner from Aparajita’s house so i used to pop over to do track work. The restaurant was great place to work with a great crew, although that kind of work is not my forte. We used to work five and a half days a week if i remember right, and at the end of every shift we would sing a song Guru wrote for the restaurant, it was a sweet and divine ending to every shift. Every weekend we would drive to New York to see Guru.

I used to say to myself , if there was a contest for the nicest guy in America, Aparajita would win it (there’s some serious flattery going on here folks).

American life is good. The people are different depending on where you go. There are crazy people in New York, but Bostonians are calm and orderly. The one thing i love about New York, is that New York will accept you no matter who or what you are, i love that kind of acceptance.

I have fond memories of Boston and its nice people and I’m glad who ever it was who called me to go there did so. It was a short but nice chapter in my life.

“America succeeds because America likes to proceed. America proceeds because America consciously and devotedly invokes God’s Compassion-Eye to precede”. Sri Chinmoy

I’m glad i lived in America for a short while.

Eamon.