(I have a new group of Dragons students arriving soon and this was from a note I wrote to them, related to the previous post, that I think continues to provide insight on life in…
Browsing Category philosophy
a few questions & answers
I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor, having no mercy with the…
mental experience
Left over Art Project on the Lawns of Tagore’s Visva Bharati University I don’t actually remember how to compose without a keyboard, so now you get my journal short-sentence scribbles. Welcome inside my head… On…
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…
collapsed cairns
I’m mentally disturbed by how quickly I forget the things I know. Only by the patient curiosity of the finger twirling creation ringlets in its hair (and thus into my life), do I get the…
divine chaos
Why India? I find the inquiry funny for the fact that the question is, for others, as obscurely obvious as the answer, for me. But I was asked this question three times this week and,…
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…
A Final Footprint in Peru: conclusion
Before we leave the village of Quelqanqa , we take one last tour of the sites laying (quite physical) tribute to the successes of our manual labor. We walk down the valley to visit the…