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A year since my last visit, I approached Tsoknyi Gechak Ling with warm anticipation. I was eager to see the students. They are warm, shy and playful; and exuberant as all children are. They are also Tsoknyi nuns, growing in … Continue reading
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This is a land of sharp and strange contrasts. The breathtaking beauty of seeing an entire range of snow-capped mountains on the descent to Kathmandu Valley; the luggage taking over an hour to find its way to the carousel. The … Continue reading
Passover comes with its wandering, its breaking through, with its lamentations and deliverance, a vehicle of mystery punctuating the night with its eternal voice. Passover comes for the delivered, the crouched down in the sand, the wandering in the blackened … Continue reading
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I’ll just step right out on a limb here and say that poetry arises out of transition. Or at least that’s where mine seems to come from. It is that instant, or in a succession of instants in which the … Continue reading
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The first thing I have to point out about this post is that it contains no original photos. Disappointing, yes, but unavoidable. There is no possible way to record Songkran without risking destruction of the camera. That’s how wet it … Continue reading
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