The Mind's Movement

I've got a couple days of teaching seminars going on now. It's been hectic and I am tired a lot. It's been a busy week.
On Friday night I went to a 'drinking party' with the teachers from my current school and it was madness--everyone was smashed by the end including me!! It was fun! All the teachers let loose and were talking about each other. I couldn't believe how open they were about all their thoughts and opinions cause they are normally polite and professional--'so and so Sensei is sooo cute, so and so Sensei is sooo immature...' The vice-principal, more than slightly inebriated invited me to go fishing with him the next day!!
I couldn't go. The next morning, Saturday, I got up early and went to pick oranges with one of the teachers I teach with. They are mandarin oranges, called 'mikan' in Japanese, and they are small and super sweet and yummy. After that we got bento box lunches and I went to Aikido practice in the city.
On Sunday I got up early and went to an Aikido seminar with Suganuma Sensei, the 9th dan up in Fukuoka City. Afterwards, there was another drinking party, so I went, but didn't drink cause I was driving, you know? But got to talk with Suganuma during the festivities about Aikido, ask real philosophy questions--luckily there was a guy who could translate. I jokingly asked him to tell me the secrets of the universe, but he thought about it and then took my question seriously. The translation came back something like: 'we are the mystery, this moment we are living is the secret, the movement of the universe, the mind's movement, those are the secrets. Yet, they are not really secrets.' It was an awesome time, to talk with him and to have the freedom to ask him questions and listen to his answers. I wish I could tell you more about that. I have little time now.
So today, I got up early again for a teaching seminar, and there's another one tomorrow. A lot of getting up early. I can't wait until there's a moment to breathe.