*The Earth Laughs In Flowers – some joy in the time of corona.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. Buddha In 1950 one …
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Love In The Time Of Corona – finding our way home
We got in by the skin of our teeth, but we’re not home yet. Our journey began February 8th with …
Workin’ Man Blues – daily working life in Rishikesh, India
10 Feb-10 Mar 2019 and 10 Feb-9 Mar 2020 Rishikesh, India India’s unemployment rate of about 7% is lower than …
Rishikesh Redux: baggage and street vendors
10 Feb-10 Mar 2019 and 10 Feb-9 Mar 2020 Rishikesh, India Twice she asked us. Would you like to take …
A Soul Dyed With Colour – India’s Rishikesh
10 Feb-11 Mar 2019 Well this is sweet. We’re in a huge airport lounge with everything we could want – …
Ancient Grace: the cathedral and town of Chartres
9 Feb 2019 I’m standing on the station platform. The train doors are closing and are more than half shut …
Paris is always a good idea. Stories of a brief winter sojourn
5-8 February 2019 In December 1973, when I was 23 years old, I left Australia for the first time. The …
Winter In The City of Light – ordinary and extraordinary Paris
5-8 February 2019. I’d returned from a solo seven-week journey to Japan and China in early June 2018. The summer …
Birds Of A Feather – The George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
They are there when you first walk in, just a short distance down the path from the entrance building. Dozens …
A Blue And Green World: Cowichan Days on Vancouver Island
The Coast Salish First Nation, the first people to live there, gave the place its name. They called it Quamichan …
Water Water Everywhere . . . hiking the Dragon’s Back in Hong Kong
10 June 2018. I’m sitting hunkered down in the shade, squished up against the low bushes on the side of …
Treasure Islands: Hong Kong’s Lamma Island and Cheung Chau
9 June 2018 I never forgot Cheung Chau. Back in 1978 it was one of the most exotic places I’d …
The Streets Of Hong Kong: a photo essay
24-26 June 2018. From Yangshuo we travelled to Hong Kong: a two-hour ride in a private van to Guilin, followed …
The Great Wall That Wasn’t, and other tales from China
16 May-7 June 2018. All the stories that couldn’t find a home in any of the other posts about China: …
