I’m not sure how I feel about Katie finding the best shell, seeing as how she is from Toledo. Perhaps this is beginner’s luck.
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Letters From Bharat: Oh, Calcutta
January 17, 2016 
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I wasn’t scared. I could easily have hailed a cab. I was just confused and wanted to find my way. On my own, if I could.
Continue reading Letters From Bharat: Sherpa
January 16, 2016 0 Comments
I’m not sure we will ever all come together as Michael Jackson’s song suggests. But I’m pretty sure young Chenju will never work on a tea farm.
Continue reading Letters from Bharat: morning in the mountains
January 11, 2016 1 Comment
It’s 7:30 in the morning in Makiabari, the small mountain village in the Darjeeling area where we have arranged home stays. It is a hazy morning—the clouds have not yet lifted. But you can start to see the surrounding valleys and ridges. I have heard the sounds of a community coming to life since 6, […]
Continue readingLetters from Bharat; waiting in Mumbai
January 3, 2016 1 Comment
We Americans, we love our tasks. But they love each other, in a way that pushes the clock out of the foreground.
Continue readingLetters from Bharat: Mumbia
January 1, 2016 0 Comments
In Mumbia one is immediately struck by the contrasts. Either that or the chaotic traffic, with the constant honking of horns and a sense that lanes don’t exist as rickshaws, buses, cabs and private cars push into any available space. Or the strange, powerful smells—incense burning at shrines on the sidewalk, smog always on high […]
Continue reading holy cow
February 12, 2015 2 Comments
Temples are crowded. Festivals are innumerable. Darkness. Bondage. Idolatry. It is an unending cycle of prayers and sacrifices.
Continue reading unity in diversity
February 11, 2015 0 Comments
People of different religions, languages and palates have been getting along for centuries, with a shared understanding of hierarchy and a karmic view of fate.
Continue reading how to say hello
February 10, 2015 1 Comment
The idea that any guest or stranger is a god lays the foundation for Indian hospitality.
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Advice millenials haven't asked for
The Ordination Papers
"I wouldn't have expected an 'ordination paper' to cause me to want to worship. But it did." -Rob Stewart
The Santa Papers
A seasonal favorite, all year long.
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a rhythm of renewal
There are dolphins playing along the edges of the surf as the sun glints off the white-capped waves. We will go soon and walk beside them.