23. LIVING IN HAPPY VALLEY, PART 4 (some memorable evenings)
DINNER WITH THE NEUTRAS I often visited Beatrice Wood and up the road from her lived Rosalind Rajagopal in Arya Vihara ('abode of the saints' in Sanskrit), Krishnamurti's former home. I would occasionally visit Rosalind for conversation and particularly to talk with her about her interesting past. One afternoon she invited me to stay for lunch and we had a delicious meal of papaya stuffed with cottage cheese and served with tasty sesame cookies. Rosalind could be distant, formal, and aloof. Her eyes had a striking milky, cold blue quality. She was high strung and it seemed hard for her to relax. Her full-size poodle was her loving companion. She had suffered a critical episode of blood poisoning years before in Europe and was treated at the famous Bircher-Benner Clinic in Switzerland. There she was introduced to having muesli and raw apples which she thereafter maintained in her strictly vegetarian diet. She was always strict about ...