*show of dualism on Ganga-ji’s ghats*For the third time in a year, I’m in India. I feel ourselves in something of a desperate love affair; one, and just as often the other, on her…
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pilgrimage of poem & music; day 1 in the Dolpa: dilation
We wake and jostle our belongings together in haste; today, as we have long planned, we will begin our journey into the Dolpa. Sacks stuffed, teeth brushed, packs on back, we descend the steep incline…
fine with my simple life
Often a cup a coffee, less likely one of wine, but even better than Joe, a little Kerouac, Eggers or Robins churns my mind with caffeinated flow. It is the first time I have opened…
walking down the up escalator
(I’ve been in a silent retreat and had no idea as to what events have taken place in Tibet this week. I just found out and have yet to research it, but you can click…
a creative life
For about six months I’ve been feeling something shifting inside of me. I can only compare the sensation to being made of sand; where every move I make shifts a million grains into a new…
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…
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…
Footprints in Peru, Day 4: appeasing the apus
“I knew you were better as soon as your laugh woke me up,” declares Javier. Indeed, while my mental facilitates napped through a 13-hour siesta, my body, with the assistance of the antibiotics, regained control…