The smell of spicy-sweet incense, the heat that soaks beyond bone marrow into DNA, the smooth-sharp crack of HindiGujaratiMarathiMalayalamWhoKnowsWhat over the constant background of horns. These combine to hold me[…]
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Uncivilized India
So far, pretty much everything I’ve had to say about India has been easy to categorize as praise. It’s not perfect, though. In one way in particular… Uncivilized India is[…]
Read moreSikhs Do More Than Feed People
Arriving in Delhi after 18 hours on the Rajdhani Express, James and I donned our packs and stumbled off the train. We both looked left, looked right, and followed the[…]
Read moreStained-Glass Butterflies and Men with Guns
Violence. Authority. I imagine that the police in India are aiming for the latter, but I can’t help but see the former. Here’s one of the little comparisons that I’ve[…]
Read moreAlmost on the Move
Well, we’re hanging out on the balcony at the Hotel New Bengal, waiting for some laundry. We had a lovely time with Vishal and Sneh and their son, Akshay, who[…]
Read moreMid-Night in Mumbai
It’s not actually midnight – it’s actually about 2am. With my time difference, it makes it midafternoon to some part of my hind brain, but the rest of me feels[…]
Read moreLast Day in Moses Lake
So, here’s the story. When I was 19 years old, I sat in Denny’s, 100 yards off of I-5, and looked out the window at the traffic. I had failed[…]
Read moreCSS – Angel or Devil
And who cares? Well, I do. I have a one-eyed monkey’s grasp of HTML and now I’m doing the bash-it-and-see-if-it-works version of messing with CSS. I like wordpress, and I[…]
Read moreBoth Trash and Treasure
In a week, I will have quit this apartment managing job. I will be in Seattle for the last time for a very long time. In two weeks, I will[…]
Read moreShedding a Tear for my Korg
First Monday without a day job. Hardly noticed, there’s so much to do! We shipped some ebay sales – the big sad ones. The Korg x50 keyboard and the Roland[…]
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