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Monday, October 19th, 2009
some moustachioed assistance
dear loyal friends in an effort to make the cooking com bigode website more intelligible to all living beings, i have decided to add a page housing photographs of the general public cooking with moustaches. now, let it be said that i am _Well Aware_ that some people don’t have moustaches. the moustaches in the [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
death and enchiladas
Humans! In India when speaking of our dead, the people say “she left the body” rather than “she died”. That is, there is a deep clarity — for me our subconscious patterns of speech reveal deeply the structure of how we think — about what death is, or as it has sometimes occurred to me, [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
basta the airplanes, 2009
to commemorate the 15 flights i have taken to date this year just when i thought i was getting ready to (famously) “settle down” i painted the following picture for my stewardess from newark to seattle and then failed to give it to her, because i liked it. – ankurbhai
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Back in Sequim
83 Lost Meadow Lane Sequim, WA 98382 USA until December perhaps 360 683 5398 home no cell phone lots of love.
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
welcome home tripper delight
Well, it’s been a long time coming. Home. And here I am, in the early fall sunshine, snowless mountains towering over this little valley, baskets of mushrooms and carrots in the cold room, and a suite of tottering laptops with which to do my holy work. Of course to be home you have to leave, [...]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
advertising push
i am in india, new delhi, headed for the himalayas once again for a 10 day retreat with no access to mid-technology (telecom) and developing what they tell me is the true high-technology (mindcom). so we’ll see. but the point is that at 7pm on august 9th, which is a sunday in new york city [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Mangolandia by ankurbhai
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
drawings from the mango farm…
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
leaving the mango farm ahead
heading out of mangoland early in the morning and i finally got around to taking some pictures of the nursery, mango hut, etc. im absconding with two kinds of pickle — one spicy and one a shredded jam — and a few kilos of rice, which some of you may get to joy if the [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
morning farming notes
june 9th. almost noon and i’m finished with the morning labor, appropriately enough. i’m been steadily waking up earlier each day, trying to get to a placetime where i can follow the advice of the himalayan swamis (all so caring, all so dedicated to my learning) who advised me to wake up at 3:30 every [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
cooking with mangos
june 9th. some culinary notes and quotations 1. from an art book on sujata bajaj is there something secretly written inside each of us? or is each of us a tiny fragment of the vast script which tells the story of the world? 2. breakfast: poha. poha is a sort of pounded rice. i think [...]