Finding Tara & Louise...or Not

"Knowing yourself deeply has nothing to do with whatever is floating around in your mind. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind."
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p. 186


Last time I bumped into Tara was at Javanet on Exchange Street, found out she was going to be teaching at Preble Street Resource Center here in Portland. I had since misplaced the card with her phone number in Yarmouth, which she gave to me the day we bumped into her on the stairs down to Videoport, the first time we’d seen her since we all lived in Oxford.

I want to talk with Tara about applied kinesiology, getting copies of her photo-cards w/ photos from India to use for correspondence/birthday cards for my business, and to tell her about the Arla Patch show at the Vox Gallery. But all I have is the e-mail address on the back of the card she gave me.

SOOO....I 411’d her in Yarmouth (no dice), even phoned her old Virginia number in case it was a cell that she’d brought with her...even though I could still remember the sound of her answering machine down there in the cottage by the water where she used to live. It’s now some business number in Oxford — a polite male voice fielded that call.

So....left her a message at the Preble Street Resource Center and haven’t heard from her that way.

The other day I wrote on the white board: “Jeff: e-mail Tara, Louise.” (The J got erased so this morning it said “eff".)

“Who’s Louise?” he asks. Louise is the cook from last summer at camp. C wants to write to her and ask her to please come cook for family camp this summer because he liked her so much (we all did). I told him I’d call Nathan to get that number / address. But I brought down the card with Tara’s email on it and asked if Jeff could please get her phone number or ask her to call me.

Of course, I don’t have Nathan’s number. I could call 411, or call someone else to ask for it. Of course, I would feel a bit embarrassed as absolutely everyone I can think of calling knows the web site address for that camp. Brad would probably give me a hard time if I called him. I could ask Jeff for it.

There could be a whole chapter in this book on finding people.