Posted by The slender, bare-headed man, swathed in red and seated in the circle just to the left and slightly in front of where I stood watching the ring of monks seated around the massive tree gestures to me to sit down next to him. Gently he pulls the square carpet upon which he is sitting out…Read more »
Posted by Wait for it…. My plane rises out of the cloud of yellow-brown smog that shrouds Kathmandu. I peer out my tiny window and watch as the ground falls away and the rumpled green carpet that I associate with Nepal’s topography slowly comes into view we leave the city behind. There is the usual veil of…Read more »
Posted by What time will the flight to Kathmandu leave? I asked knowing full well that regardless of what the ticket agent might say, he had no idea. Could be on time. More likely it would be late. The question before me whenever I travel by air in Nepal is not will the flight will be on…Read more »
Posted by Today I woke with a smile on my face. A good night’s sleep for the first time in several days had washed the cobwebs from my mind, it was clear, ready to leap with an open heart into whatever the day had to offer. Quite a contrast to yesterday, when I was in the throes…Read more »
Posted by The apartment is quiet tonight as the dogs have gone to their home-away-from home as I prepare to travel to deliver another training in eastern Nepal for another week. I haven’t had to wipe up any dog pee, or rescue the TV remote from the jaws of someone who has mistaken it for a chewing…Read more »
Posted by I am not sure whether this gradual rising feeling of terror in my chest is due to the less oxygen in the at 13,000 feet or because my mind is slowly registering that am suspended in a plane not much bigger than a mosquito by some unseen force. I can hear the engines and feel…Read more »
Posted by The gray dust of Kathmandu and its neighboring “suburbs” is ubiquitous. It is everywhere. I remember now with fondness the red dust of Rwanda that used to drive me nuts. It had a rich depth to it that the gray dust of Kathmandu does not have. Now the black shoes that were always tinted red…Read more »
Posted by For someone who likes specialized fabrics, a trip to the sari store is nothing short of miraculous. As breath-taking as the cascades of colored lights falling off the buildings for Tihar (celebration of light), the walls of the sari store are a brilliant mosaic of color from floor to ceiling. The colors are blinding, yellow,…Read more »
Posted by Caveat: This is a long one, 20 years is a long time. Do not attempt to read it at all if you do not like cats. You should not have released an intact male back into the city. My new acquaintance, and part of a network of “cat people” in San Francisco who dedicate…Read more »
Posted by It is true that most of the houses in Nepal are of the same basic 12-15 ft by 12-15 ft cement block style. It is also evident that the advent of cement must have been transformative for the entire country. It is also true that most of the cement buildings are fairly plain and those…Read more »
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