When I was 7, I’d rally a small neighborhood troop, To carve a tunnel through the blackberry bramble. Lift the warmed wooden lids off garden snake traps. Part overhead golden grasses in search of field…
Browsing Category on pilgrimage
killer whales surfacing from the subconcious
That was the caption of my dream two nights ago. Yesterday, encouraged by my partner, some of the bigger ideas of my subconscious, like in my dream, began to surface. I don’t know, yet, what…
an orange american dot in a sky of tibetan clouds
How can almost a year have flown while my words still stumble? It’s a messy thing. Catching the processing of experiences down to something real, that happened, while at the same catching experience up to…
Pilgrimage of Poem & Music: Day 3, in the ring of the wind
A shortage of ponies keeps us, with bags packed and stacked at the doorway, hesitantly stationed in the tiny trail-head town of Jomsom. Today, Sangeetha and I follow our whim through the the alleys and…
re-defining home
(The following question was posed to me by the editor of TravelBlogs.com) What does home mean to you after traveling for so long? When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed…
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…
a new revolution ’round the sun
The Himalayas are a holy place. For a moment, I forgot this. And remembered them only, as big mountains. But slowly crawling along the valleys and ridges of the Earth’s crust had the effect of…
following a pilgrim songline
So where were we? Ah, yes. Eluding the croissant-pusher. In Australia, I once learned that the Aboriginals used to track their way through the vast bush by secret songlines; riddles, in song format, of which…
la petite fille
I try to hunch into the longer shadows cast by the spotlight. Then I try turning around and searching for some speaker or spectacle that might give me more shade. I quickly realize that all…