I Am ready for 2025 - Its my Hijrah to the East Coast.

If the external image is a reflection of what the inner state of consciousness is like, then I feel that on this first day of 2025 I am doing not too bad. The sea was mirrorlike and there were the songs of birds in the air and I felt at home with my long time friends here.
 

This is where i have been coming to whenever i needed to chill and today on the first of January 2025 I was not disappointed as the sea was like a mirror reflecting the skies. If this be any indication of what may lay ahead for me in the upcoming year, then I look forward to it and if not I still look forward to it. I feel deep inside that whatever lay in store for me the coming months will be an exciting and challenging one as I intend to make it so. At my age i got very little to loose and whatever it may be it does not really matter anymore for i feel I have done my share of living.

This location is about a mile away from where i was born sometime in 1949 and back then there was none of these houses as these were built as extension from reclaimed land. The low hill in the back ground you see is actually a landfill that extended into the sea. This is the Malay Fisherman's Jetty which is located off the Lim Chong Eu or Jelutong Highway. The whole area will soon disappear to make way for whatever the developers have in mind. The pylons sticking out of the water you see were once stilts that held up small huts for the fishermen to store their gears.  

As I have quite often posted in the Blog in the past of this same sight, this will always remain in my memory of the time I spent here hanging out with my Malay friends, fishermen and fisher of men alike. I feel very fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the community for the past twelve to fifteen years give or take. This place keeps reminding me of the impermanence of life and as a matter of fact a few of my friends here have left life for good.

Of late i have not been frequenting this space as often as I  used to and I feel the gradual detachment happening for sometime now realizing that i am in the process of saying farewell to this power house of a space that have been one of my spiritual retreat while facing the course of my daily existence living in this City of Georgetown, Penang. This Malay Fishermen's Jetty as i call it has been like what Green Gulch Farm was while i was living in the San Francisco Bay Area. or living in Sandpoint, Alaska in the Aleutian Chain off Anchorage, Ak. or while living in the hundred year old farmhouse on Humboldt Road, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Wherever i had lived i found myself frequenting one particular spot and doing my practice of meditation and contemplation, although in the past I did not realize what i was doing other than just getting away from the mainstream humdrum of life. As i have often mentioned, the Devil is in the details and I can relate the details of my experiences in these places and how they have helped to awaken my mind towards self discovery.

Now I am in the process of making yet another transition from living here in Georgetown to the East  Coast and am saying goodbye in the form of detachment from my friends, relatives and activities here which have taken place over ten years since my children and I settled down here after the departure of my late wife to the US. It is time to make the Hijrah as the Muslim would call it from one location to another in order to upgrade one's situation albeit physical or spiritual. This move is happening one way or another and I see nothing that will stand in my way as I feel deeply that it is time and needs to happen no matter what it takes. So, 2025 begins with this resolution and with my Lord's Will and Blessings I am already making preparations for this event in my life.  

In the stillness of the ocean I found the truth that I do not belong in one place but everywhere.