This time last year I trekked the Everest Base Camp trail in Nepal. There are no words for what’s happened to Nepalis the past few days. Not only have they lost homes, a way of life, and their livelihoods––their culture and history have been leveled too. The loss, too big to process, will take time. …
While traveling, I rarely knew what day of the week it was and dates didn’t mean much. I totally immersed myself in the experience of awakening to the world. A world very different from the one I’d known before. Easter caught up with me in Nepal and it took my breath away. I used puppets, …
I beheld the sight of the sun’s rays bathing the slopes and drifts of the Arabian desert from the air at dawn, painting the sand pink and gold. After a stop in Abu Dhabi, I arrived in Kathmandu that afternoon. The evening found me celebrating yet another New Year, The Nepali New Year, in Bouddhanath––a neighborhood …
