Category: Religion
Updated on August 20, 2016
Getting Real (Quiet) at Le Village des Pruniers
Some of the greatest experiences of this trip have been the unplanned, the ones that snuck up on us and spontaneously presented themselves, as if fated. That’s how we wound up living for a week at Plum Village, …
Updated on July 30, 2016
Seeking Peace in Jerusalem
To visit Jerusalem is to visit the whole world in a single step: it seems, during our three weeks in Israel, that we have studied all of history as it has played out on this tiny patch of …
Posted on May 26, 2016
Perseverance and Impermanence in the Himalayas
If the air conditioner in Alleppey, India had been more powerful, we wouldn’t have come to Nepal at all. We’d planned to spend two months in Sri Lanka, split up by a short visit to southern India …
Posted on April 26, 2016
Losing My Religion (in India)
Kerala in April was a furnace of diabolical proportions, the air a humid stew. The locals wouldn’t stop telling us each day how unusually warm it was. (Yes, we’d noticed.) If Kerala truly is “God’s Own Country” as the state …
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