At this very minute, scouts from every major city in India are making their way to the site of the recent natural disaster in Bangladesh. There, they will pick through the rubble of the dead…
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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 10: collective breaths
Our bridge is only a few hundred hauled-stones away from completion when I wander up the hill following a rumor that the men of the Quelqanqa are constructing a traditional “earth oven” or pachamanca in…
Footprints in Peru, Day 8: one stone at a time
a community service project sponsored by World Nomads Our first mistake is thinking that we’ve come to organize and/or manage; our first lesson is realizing that the locals coordinating this project are professionally skilled and…
Footprints in Peru, Day 7: walking a fine line
a community service project sponsored by World Nomads “Oh! It’s just so beautiful! To live in this amazing valley, pulling your meals from your garden, surrounded by your extended family, breathing fresh Andes air with…
Footprints in Peru Day 1: puncturing peruvian skin & yachcay
Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru “Where are you from?” It’s the same first question every shoe shining boy in the Plaza de Armas has been trained to ask. “The heavens,” I reply in Spanish. He…
positive footprints
Well friends. It’s 4am and I’m in my sleeping bag sprawled on the carpet of a bedroom empty of everything but a packed bag. In a few hours, I’ll commence a day of flying that…
touching peace upon
Where does one feel sadness? It’s not in the head. Not the heart really either. For me it sits at the bottom of my ribcage, quivering, where if it decided to make a run for…
the last turtle
14.1, 3.1, 2.1 15.2, 3.4, 2.3 12.5, 2.7, 2.0 “Oh my gosh, this one’s so little!” I put the slide rule down and, with two careful fingers, lift the little creature up. His width, as…
safe passage continued
(I’ve got thoughts to compose and post, but we’re fast on the move as the semester comes to close. The following comes from a newsletter update that Hanley, the director of Camino Seguro, asked me…