I am not going to present an overall summary and evaluation. To arrive at such a vantage, it is too soon! I’ll simply post a few favourite photos for it says much more and I don’t have to tackle the frustrations of articulation. Nepal dheri man parcha! … [Read more…]
November 21, 2009
Never mind. Each step made me warmer and the juniper has a funny way of calming you yet startling eyes wide afresh. The way was still brown, still in rain shadow region. I was all humming buzz and bliss.
November 15, 2009
I’ve landed in Pokhara after an eventful ten days. In a nutshell I was in Manang area, Tilicho Tal and other Annapurna districts. More later. Just a message to say all is well. I’m missing everyone horrifically. Adieu x
November 7, 2009
Here I am. In Chame on the Annapurna. I’m alive and going brilliantly. I’ve never felt so darn fine. The girls I’m travelling with are super super. Must go internet is ridiculously expensive!
November 3, 2009
We walked through the city and it was festival time so small circles of men were seated around grain paintings singing low songs. The children were in small groups throwing marbles and eating sweet milk lollies. There were yellow and pink lights blinking softly from every shrine we passed. Magical!
October 27, 2009
Here it begins after weeks of neglect. The blog and the affairs of the web have become secondary of late, the rushing reality of leaving village and school a more dominant thought. Typing this up, I can’t recall the last entry, so I don’t know my beginnings in updating the events. So, my apologies! I’ve… [Read more…]
October 2, 2009
So much where to start? I've since played soccer for Kilroys (a restaurant in thamel), scored a goal, did a cartwheel, met and spent time with a lovely German woman, ridden crazy like on the tops of buses, motorbikes, walked the Langtang, climbed 4300m, sampled chang and raksi, hung with yaks, mountain ponies, met characters, played on huge festival swings, received blessings and tikka, usurped old ideas, planted new ideas, watched mustard seeds flower into carpets of yellow, watched clouds shrink to humble gauzes, seen mountains grow bold in the air growing more cold each day.
September 2, 2009
In the village the world is changing, corn season is over and mothers, daughters and grandmothers have been pulling up the last of the corn and carting it up the mountain for the goats. Soon the cauliflower, eggplant and brocoli will go in. Now it means we have an uninterrupted view from any part of the village of the valley and the mountains with their heads wrapped in scarves of cloud.
August 26, 2009
Sick! Stupid unfiltered water. Am recovering and feeling well but made Prem very nervous. Time is short, so just a lesson for you all .. westerners have zero tolerance when it comes to funny water. Am missing you all! Love Ishsteep (my new name)
August 19, 2009
Anyway, thought I'd really open the door and invite you in for Nepali tea (complete with salt and sugar). The village we're living in is called Dadagon (aka Dandagoan aka Dagaduon), it sleeps on the side of a mountain peeping into the valley watching mountains roll by and give birth to mountains. The house I'm living with is a beautiful mud brick lung of air infused with spice and muck.
December 15, 2009
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