Joyeux Noel! Bonne Annee!
Bonne Annee dear ones! Happy New year! A Traditional New Year Greeting Card, late fifties. Coconut Head they called me. Endearingly, I am told. In the mid Sixties, seven year […]
Tag Archives: Solu
The End is the Beginning
Back in Bodhnath. I lay down in bed, slowly awakening. Bell tinkles and the deep song of monks prayers are my reality. Incense smells waft through the open window, a […]
Walking The Other Side
Saturday was Market Day in Naya Bazaar. A joy to walk down the trail from Lura, cross the Solu Khola, and up to the busy-ness of the Salleri side. […]
Schooling the World the old Way? Or a New Model based on the Heart?
One of my favourite ‘things to do’ while working on Beyond the Smile is to do background research and to gather any information relevant to the village of Lura and […]
Namaste Lakpa Bhai!
Logging is always tedious, oh yes it is, do not believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Mind you, silver lines the cloud rewards of reliving experience past. I have been […]
Beyond the Smile is Go!
Well folks, Back in Kathmandu! After our little interlude in Lalitpur, we moved to a lovely place inn Lazimpat called Cocina Mitho Chha. It is a small NGO providing orphans […]
A Dog’s Life
Looking through the TinShed – A nail hole in the sky. It is 7 am and I am standing in a derelict shed facing the “Jung Recreation Reserve” ‘s […]
Beyond the Smile 