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I originally began, and titled, this blog when I traveled to India for 6 months in 2011. I ended up helping the royal Panwar family start an organic farm, cultural conservation center, and hotel in the foothills of the Himalayas, 6 hours drive north of Delhi. Hence the blog posts from four years ago depicting those wonderful travels. I often think fondly of the kind people I know there.....

Happily I am continuing this blog, and keeping the name. My intention is to engage with and bear witness to the shift in consciousness I believe is happening all around the world. It is a miracle to be able to join people everywhere who are healing ourselves, each other, and the Earth through discovering the unity and the freedom of being alive.

On this journey though our magical world, we become aware of how we create our inner and outer world as one. Let us be true to ourselves, that we might inspire each other! Witnessing so many ways of life, we recognize to the archetypal spiritual forces vying for the world, disguised in the veils of our personal story lines and ordinary lives. Every moment is a sacred offering, when we decide which ones we serve.

I will be posting draft chapters of my first novel, "Otherwise What?, as they become available. Most recent posts appear on top. Thank you for reading :)

Friday, May 27, 2011

Honoring another culture







Sometimes I get so caught up in watering the plants, applying for organic certification and non-profit status for Darbar Farm and millions of other practical details, I forget to comment on the amazing wealth of this culture surrounding me. There are so many people who I find fascinating to pass in the street. So many impressive scenes in the rugged mountain landscape. So many puja shrines dripping with faith and color. So many fruits I've never seen, new words, gems of ancient wisdom.... Like the food here, Indian culture is spicy, diverse and very rich. I don't have much time to write, but here are a few pics of everyday kinds of things that make me pause inwardly and wish I was a better writer so I could compose some verse to render this countless glimpses of poignant beauty of ordinary life immortal.
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