Bodhi or Bowdy
Confessions of an erstwhile motel worker:
Nighttime influx of travelers.
Comes, Bodhi, service dog and his owner from Switzerland who just spent a week volunteering at the Howling Wolf Ranch, a Montana retreat for wounded soldiers.
Then Bowdy from Washington in a Penske trailer, moving. Need a room, don’t know where to eat in this small town. Don’t really know where I am, Idaho?
You’re just over the border sir, just over the line from lottery tickets and higher grade alcohol.
Bodhi (Sanskrit: बोधि) is both a Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English with the word “enlightenment”, but which means awakened.
Bowdy (American) is the common name of a traveler who decides to stop at the junction between I-15 and I-84. This traveler always has a moving van.
Or rather two roads converged in a small town and brought the travelers for the night where lamplight bodhisattva’s offered ice for free. Where the travelers awakening starts tomorrow at around 5 am with a cup of coffee and motel muffin that will take them down the path, the road, the middle yellow line, home. And they’ll drink samsara, popular yellow fizzy drink, warm and with a straw. And later that will think about satori, or story, or the tale of their trip from here to there, the long gray meditation that is the road, the rode, the rhode.
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