Oh. Creaky, rusty fingers. Of which I would prefer to point at the Himalayan monsoons in blame. But really, we all know, the real culprit is disuse. Blog content comes to me like the first…
Posts tagged india
photos first
While my bags are packed (flying to Nepal today) my thoughts are not. I’ve actually two flights, the final landing me in Lukla, where the biggest mountains in the world grow. I’ll be high in…
arranged love marriage
IMG_5263, originally uploaded by seekingsol. One of my students recently quipped, “…arranged marriages give me faith in marriage.” And as quickly as I agreed with her, I wondered, “what a once-foreign idea with which I…
the people in my neighborhood
IMG_5372, originally uploaded by seekingsol. Sorry friends for my absence; between my sicknesses (minor) and those of my students, I’ve hardly found a free moment. I did just upload some photos from a quick walk…
interview with a village family
India is the home of almost 1/6th of the world population; 1.13 billion people and around 80% of this population lives in rural areas. Last weekend I spent a long weekend in a small, rural…
india is an arranged marriage
Village Faces, U.P. India, originally uploaded by seekingsol. (This is an excerpt from a personal journal entry from the first week when I arrived in India. I sometimes cringe and curse at the weird way…
leftover stew
I specifically remember the days my mother cleaned house because for dinner, there was always a slightly mysterious thing boiling in a pot, that we (the kids) renamed, “left-over stew.” Well, as I blow the…
being & becoming
“To a western observer our civilization appears as all metaphysics, as to a deaf man piano playing appears to be mere movements of fingers and no music.” – RABINDRANATH TAGORE, India’s greatest poet, who won…
stepping off the edge together
I’m currently in Bangkok, Thailand and will be on a plane to Delhi, India this afternoon. I’ll be India for the next four months, three of those during which I’ll be working as an instructor…