Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [933] | Comments [3]
music flows through the streets of this city like the lifeblood of god penetrating humanity. it is what the people here live for, singing in the streets with a passion that is impossible to misinterpret. it is a perpetual festival, a land where the sound ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Friday, 22 Dec 2006 | Views [667]
the secret ingredient is FD and C YELLOW #5, not tumeric. they sprinkle little packets of it into their clay tagine pots,after frying the vegetables in lamb stock and chicken fat. first the oils, then the onions and spices,the colors and stocks,and then ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wednesday, 20 Dec 2006 | Views [672]
the breath of the desert reveals itself in the migrating ripples of such subtle grains depth in the afternoon shadows dividing dunes all dissolving after dusk when it is soft stretched tight across the surface like the skin of infants. the desert ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Wednesday, 20 Dec 2006 | Views [714] | Comments [1]
the signs are glowing, almost a blinding neon pink, lighting the path that has already decided itself. my first friend in marrakech was born in a village that is my name spelled backwards: assila. my second friend let me borrow his vest one night, ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Wednesday, 20 Dec 2006 | Views [690]
within each pomegranite resides sweet gems spilling succulent secrets that teach us how to be full and patient and vibrantly juicy in each moment and they are in disguise as fruit
Tags: Food & eating
Saturday, 9 Dec 2006 | Views [765] | Comments [1]
it is only the second day and i already have a novel's worth of the extraordinary to retell. participating on this exhilerating stage of life-marrakech is a theatre of perpetual perfomance: everyone in their elvish hoods and elvish shoes, spinning dervish circles ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tuesday, 28 Nov 2006 | Views [646]
LISten, bLISsed in:
it just so happens to be that lis, the name i have been forever called, is the suffix contained within the latin names for nearly every species of lepidoptera in the genus evergestis. evergestis lunulalis, evergestis dimorphalis, ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
