lara simmons

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          [At Ekouin on Mount Koya] "Hurt people hurt people. " --From the movie "Greenberg"  And just like that I have three days of free and constantly available wifi. The Universe does work in mysterious ways. Maybe the letting go was the key. Duh.  Anyway, the need for forgiveness just keeps on coming.  I left on a long journey this morning. A seven-hour oddessy from Tokyo to Koyasan (Mount Koya) by foot and train and train and subway and train and cable car and bus in a country where I do not speak the language or even recognize the characters of the alphabet.  Thankfully English is widely spoken in Japan and Japanese people are inordinately kind and helpful.  There was one bump in the road, however, before I even got on the road. I  had sort of planned to make the first leg of this journey with some fellow travelers - although nothing was set in stone - and I happened to run into one of them as I was heading up to my hotel roo...