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…
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marbled black lab
We check each other out. Her cream and mint salwar-kameez is conservatively muted with fine emblem work that I have never seen in the popular clothing stores that I frequent in India. I’m wearing a…
non-dualism
*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…
a time hangover
This has been the longest year of my life. I realize this entirely now upon touching down in India. For while I feel this country to be at least be a few emotional Christmas’…
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…
a stone on simmer
Handing me back the piece of paper with the single word on it, my student says, “Um. I’m not sure I know what this is…” Part of the mission of my work (in experiential education)…
6 minutes from my doorstep
Captions below….. This is the doorstep to the house where I live. The house used to be owned by the King of Nepal. This is the stray dog, Muchachito, that guards my doorstep. He was…
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…