{"id":66773,"date":"2021-06-11T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=66773"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:23:38","slug":"jonathan-livingston-kabaragoya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/jonathan-livingston-kabaragoya-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Livingston Kabaragoya*"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Jonathan Livingston Kabaragoya*<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66774 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jonathan-Livingston-Kabaragoya.jpg\" alt=\"Eco Village at Sunrise\" width=\"378\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Eco Village at Sunrise<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">We wake up together at dawn, each day, and watch the golden radiation of warm <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">sunshine touch the far banks of the Dodanduwa Lagoon and paint the Gin Ganga in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">subtle shades of colours and hues. Feelings of serenity whisper voices of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">melancholy and weave Utopian dreams of parading solitude into our hearts and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">bring forth an awakening from a silent slumber across the skies. The aura invades <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the innermost crevices of our soul, with feelings from breathtaking beyonds, as my <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">eyes survey the contours of this simple little heaven on earth lurking away in a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">corner, off the southern coast of Sri Lanka and referred to as Eco village to all <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">commercial and traveller folks. The beautifully manicured lawn with its foliage <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">feasting in the air emanates the human need for peace and contentment within <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">ruffling showers that fill the flowers with the essence of fresh new fragrances <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">throughout each day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">In this exotic environment of beauty and splendour, Jonathan, the silent Water <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Monitor spells out an ancient love story written by time and narrated through <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">nature\u2019s beauty from generation to generation. In so many ways Jonathan <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">demonstrates his dignified demeanour and grace as he silently, and in all serenity, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">plays about on the bounteous land and washes his cares away in the silvery streams <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">of the cool lagoon waters. His steadfast strength moves him on, surviving in a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">jungle called earth where financially oriented homo sapiens wait, watchfully, for<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">any opportunity to use him and his fellow creatures for power and profit. I watch <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">him in awe, as he rustles through the dried leaves that have fallen from the great <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Kottang trees to the ground, overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66775 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/My-friend-Jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">My friend Jonathan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Jonathan moves, gliding gracefully across the Eco Village lawn, six feet of sun <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">kissed hide skirting the mangrove through the grass and sliding silently into the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">lagoon where he swims in deep delight amidst his fellow water creatures, hoping <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">to catch his gourmet breakfast and relish it for the day. He then moves up to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">surface, his watchful eyes skimming the water line, his webbed feet paddling <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">gracefully beneath, his slithery tail swishing left and right, as he moves regal like a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">dugout canoe, and shows off to me how great his simple, yet beautiful life, plays <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">out.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">That is Jonathan, my Water Monitor friend, sleek in design, majestic in float, full <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">of sense and sensibilities of life where his script is written by stealth, silence, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">shelter and satisfaction, which plays eternally on like rhythmic music, every single <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">day and night, until eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66776 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Walk-through-the-Mangroves.jpg\" alt=\"Walk through the Mangroves\" width=\"379\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Walk through the Mangroves<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The flora and fauna are plentiful at Eco Village, in Dodanduwa, where we spent a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">few fabulous weeks, on holiday in July 2005. The mangroves dip silently into the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">water, encircling the lake in its entirety providing a canopy of safety, security, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">livelihood to the numerous creatures of God who share it as home. Live cranes, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">cormorants, storks, gulls and even hundreds of bats enveloping the skies at night, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and an assortment of fish feeders linger in the vicinity of the Lagoon. Owls hoot, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">intermittently, at night breaking the still air into peals of wailing sound bytes. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sometimes, the silence is shattered by the screech of a \u201cDid you do it\u201d bird <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">streaking off into a tree. Jonathan undoubtedly is the Head Prefect, strong in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">stature and rigid in his right, spectacularly prominent in his brown camouflaged <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">coat as he moves, stealthily, in peace, comfort and harmony, amongst his dwarfed <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I never saw him fight or squabble, no \u201cBig Boss\u2019 small fry divisions of ruling the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">proletariat. There\u2019s enough fish for all in the majestic waters of the lagoon and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Jonathan is very democratic, and, the bulk and the best of his wisdom is based on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">sharing, live and let live. The birds take their allocated slots in this ancient <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">tableau of water and enjoy the gift of life undisturbed and uncomplicated, laced <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">with an unselfish attitude that I clearly see as their daily bread, within their lives. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Jonathan Livingston Kabaragoya rules the roost; he has not much to worry about, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">just a fish or two or even some insects, to relish and then stretch out and enjoy a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">quiet siesta in the afternoon, as the day passes and the shadows lengthen with the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">cloak of darkness approaching nigh. I see him moving stealthily away to wherever <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">he beds for the night and I know I should not enter into his bedroom for mutual <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">respect and gentlemanly privacy. That multiplied by 365 would be a year for him, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">but that too is of little consequence as he does not measure life by Gregorian or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Hijri calendar squares hung on a wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I know he hasn\u2019t invested or saved up any money in finance companies or big <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">beastly banks, and has no idea, whatsoever, what world recession is. He does not <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">care what Barak Obama plans for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, or where the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">G20 meets next to shake hands, lift up their drinks, and postpone world problems <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">for another day. Little does he know of the Madoffs, Stanfords and Kotalawelas <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">languishing behind cold grey bars for their short sighted selfishness and greed that <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">has botched up this money chasing Universe into a chaotic mess. He has no wars to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">fight nor lies to read in print and does not worry about how gold and the oil barrel <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">yo-yo\u2019s in the world markets. He gives two hoots for Dow Jones, Nasdaq or Hang <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Seng. The widely transmitted Satellite news networks of CNN, BBC, MSNBC, AlJazeera, and even Fox never reach his domain, not for the want of a dish and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">receiver but purely because he simply doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t have to worry <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">about what Larry King, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil or even David Letterman have to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">espouse in seeking to bring news, discussions, gossip, sensation, and laughter to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">inquisitive and petty minded human beings. To Jonathan, land is sacred, green is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">sacred, and water is sacred, and, I am sure he prays at the sacred altars of nature, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">a worthy worship sans the hymns, candles, drums, bowing, prostration and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">pageantry, simple to understand, gentle to live, and easy to believe. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Yes, Richard Bach created the unforgettable Seagull and Elmo Jayawardena <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">plagiarised the same to create his J L Pelican, after which I simply could not resist <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the temptation to go one step further and name my watchful Water Monitor friend <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">in the same manner, all three Jonathans, far away from each other in remote <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">corners of the planet. I am sure Bach won\u2019t mind, there are people who sing from <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">similar hymn sheets and policy a live and let live their faiths. No legacy to lawyer <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">coffers and no prides for protection rights. No cops to be hassled by and no <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">politicians to vote for. It doesn\u2019t even matter what the weather people have to say <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">today. Life should be simplified, could certainly be simplified and made truly <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">liveable on this great piece of Mother earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">My heart yearns to be able to pick a day from Jonathan, just one day, where I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">could wake up and trudge to some beautiful water heaven and enjoy a melodious <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">moment watching the wind move the waves while a dragonfly flicks over the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">waterline. I would like to strut in peace with my fellow dwellers, eat fish and rice, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">a fruit or two, and see the slow roll of cartoon white clouds across a sheet of a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">clear blue sky. Maybe ask a Stork how he learnt to make his catch so spritely or tell <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">a Cormorant his black is beautiful. Kermit the frog would probably retort with a, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cgrepep\u201d before he smiles back at me and dives into the depths of the sparkling <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Lagoon? How delightful to engage in some peaceful chatter with all of Gods <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">beautiful creatures to pass the time away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66777 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Amidst-the-flowers-and-stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Amidst the flowers and stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Not in the least does it cross his mind that far away, in many distant places where <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">streets are named after Wall and Dalal, and Bulls and Bears engage in mighty <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">conflict through each passing day, there are those who seek to wear and display <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">clothing, ornaments and footwear, made elegantly off the skin of his sun kissed <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">back. Nor does he celebrate the many wonderful people who engage in vociferous <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">campaigns, protests and marches against the trade in animal fur and hide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">And the sun rolls over to its zenith bringing a fresh lease of life everyday to every <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">living species in and around the lagoon. Even the grasshoppers, with their bright <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">little green trousers, make merry singing, hipperty skipperty high and low on the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">lawn, enjoying the summer fun as they watch Jonathan pass by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Once a month the full moon rolls over, accompanied by the chanting of the monks <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">on the island, in the middle of the Lagoon, their tingling bells resonating a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">pleasant melody, echoing across the water and then through the brush of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">mangroves. Jonathan looks up and smiles. The light that the moon reflects suits <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">him fine to seek his dinner. The sound of the bells don\u2019t bother him one bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66778 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-lagoon-and-beyond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The lagoon and beyond<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">No doubt he has to keep an eye on the predators, both man and beast, who prowl <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">around all day and night. Security is never lacking, not even in his neck of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">woods. I watch in amazement as our eight year old grandson, Abdullah, chases <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">behind him with a twig, staying a safe distance away for fear that he may turn <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">around and bite. I wonder what goes on in Abdullah\u2019s mind as he innocently wants <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">to play with the lizard, another young and innocent simple human soul with fewer n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">qualms and issues in his heart and mind. How similar they both are in so many<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">ways, and yet, how different too? And how very diverse they will eventually grow <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">up to become in this place we call home? Maria, our eleven year old grand <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">daughter chooses to stay as far away from Jonathan as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66790 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rice-and-curry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Rice and curry, Paradise style<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The tranquillity that this place brings into human hearts cannot be fathomed <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">unless one visits and experiences it at a very personal level. In real time, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">appetising aroma that seeps from the kitchen that the owner, Abey, cares for so <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">much with his able chef and assistant, must surely kindle Jonathans senses even <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">though he knows he does not have access to any of it unless he manages to steal a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">scrap or two from the waste bins after dark. We relish the food and walk towards <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the water after the sun has gone down and watch the stillness of the night in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">absolute awe. If you ever want to conjure up Heaven on earth then you must visit <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Eco Village before you depart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Maybe I can change roles with my Lizard friend, borrow his lifestyle, if not all, at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">least some sediments, then maybe I too could have a better day, a better life and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">a better view of what\u2019s around me, and learn the rudiments of how to appreciate <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">living, sharing, and contentment? <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Thank you Jonathan Livingston Kabaragoya for opening my eyes, they\u2019ve been <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">closed for way too long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66791 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kabaragoya-\u2013-Sinhalese-for-Water-Monitor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Kabaragoya \u2013 Sinhalese for Water Monitor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Livingston Kabaragoya* Eco Village at Sunrise We wake up together at dawn, each day, and watch the golden radiation of warm sunshine touch the far banks of the Dodanduwa Lagoon and paint the Gin Ganga in subtle shades of colours and hues. 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