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Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009 | Views [1258] | Comments [1]
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 knees, begging the other to come back, just go, or not leave.
Four months ago, in a dizzy spell in Delhi, ... Read more >
Saturday, 25 Oct 2008 | Views [1379] | Comments [1]
What does home mean to you after traveling for so long?
When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed of my
country, annoyed with American tradition & culture, disregarding of
my family history, disappointed with my education, ... Read more >
Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | Views [1384]
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) is that of
fostering eleven (what we call) "core values"... Read more >
Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008 | Views [5868] | Comments [1]
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 have so naturally nodded my head in agreement!" It's
one ... Read more >
Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008 | Views [2356] | Comments [1]
"Well. You know what Buddhists would say? You must have some karmic
connection that keeps bringing you back..." � the woman checking me
into the Roots Institute of Wisdom Buddhist Retreat Center , Bodhgaya (Bihar), India And
even I have ... Read more >
Tuesday, 11 Mar 2008 | Views [6935]
India is the home of almost 1/6th of the world population; 1.13 billion
people and around 80% of this population lives in rural areas. Last
weekend I spent a long weekend in a small, rural village on the
outskirts of Varanasi of which I've visited ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008 | Views [1497]
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 order that fills the
holes and packs down to take the shape of ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Friday, 1 Feb 2008 | Views [2241]
A
friend recently told me over tea, "So I'd decided along with everyone
else to stop researching cameras and computers and just buy whatever
you do..." Both off and online, I get a lot of questions on my
camera kit (as it has evolved significantly ... Read more >
Tags: cameras, packing & gadgets
Tuesday, 29 Jan 2008 | Views [1480]
(This is an excerpt from a personal
journal entry from the first week when I arrived in India. I sometimes
cringe and curse at the weird way my sentences wrap around each other
in odd-measured rhyme when I get writing. So know that it's
unintentional, ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 | Views [1412]
I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor had no mercy with the scissors and cut my tresses of words to ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 | Views [1431]
For most Westerners, it's unfathomable for a major city to function
without 24-hour electricity. Yet like the monsoon rains on their
mission to Ganga-ji (respected river), the 1.3 million people who live
here in Varanasi somehow always manage to ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 | Views [1730]
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 and displaced, in
order to find, lure, trap and/or steal ... Read more >
Tags: History & Politics
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 | Views [1312] | Comments [2]
(Buddhism was the first Eastern religion I encountered on my travels and when reincarnation was explained to me, it changed my world in the way it did mapmakers when they were told the earth was round. But it did not so much, “explain” as it, “told me ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Sunday, 21 Oct 2007 | Views [1485]
This is not my first cup of chai with Agam-ji. While the kinship I feel for him might well transcend centuries, Agam has already become a revered character in one of my many lifetimes within this one; I studied the art of silversmith under his mentorship, ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [2882]
Why India? I find the inquiry funny for the fact that the question is, for others, as obscurely obvious as the answer, for me. But I was asked this question three times this week and, only just, woke to the idea that perhaps it was not a rhetorical ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Sunday, 7 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
A new India adventure begins...
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Sunday, 7 Oct 2007 | Views [1657]
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 a pumice stone on my soul. For 15 days I walked. And for ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Monday, 16 Apr 2007 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [2510]
This week, on the streets of Pondicherry, I was blessed by an elephant. And
she raised her trunk to deliver, upon my forehead, a sacred thump, a
story that I always felt compelled to compose, but never found the time
to type, came back to ... Read more >
Tags: animals, elephant
Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [1457]
pouring. drenching. pounding. drowning. rain. When
I was in Pune, they asked me, “Did it rain in the North, in Mumbai,
when you were there?” When I was in Goa, they asked me, “Did it rain in
the North, ... Read more >
Tags: midnight, monsoon, on the road
Sunday, 29 May 2005 | Views [1369]
I don’t look up, but feel the table vibrate as a chair is pulled out
from under it and curious arms fold themselves across from mine... “Hello.” Although
my eyes are reluctant to pull themselves from the egg hunt of
inspiration that I have found ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Friday, 20 May 2005 | Views [2153]
(This
story is a continuation of the post from last week, "this is india - part I".) ***** The Rail Official instructs me to wait until he has finished confirming the seats of the rest of the passengers in the car. As
he leaves ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wednesday, 18 May 2005 | Photo Gallery
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Sunday, 15 May 2005 | Views [1089]
Kolkata/Culcutta, India The Train Station I
jump out of the car, insist that I’ll be safe on my own and Suren, my
in-country co-leader and friend from Nepal, reluctantly gives me a
final hug and jumps back into the jeep and leaves. I turn around ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wednesday, 11 May 2005 | Views [1315]
After a tearful goodbye to my students I suddenly find myself shockingly alone. *That sentence needs some of the sudden S P A C E that I have yet to get comfortable in.* But
the madness hasn't a chance to cease as there's a taxi strike in
Kolkatta ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
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