Archive for June, 2009
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 it’s been processed in some way [...]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
One honest smile
An article by Derrick Jensen, I’d like to share. I think it’s very very good.
I say it’s very good and also, I think you will see, I think it’s a direct attack of my entire style (read: joie) of living.
But I don’t disagree, per se. Indeed, I cannot, but rather, I think his comments and [...]
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Too hot to power.
Well. It’s June.
Everything is a pastiche of flux and jumble, as always. This time around, something about the perfume of the mangos and the national elections, the month of pilgrimage in Hindulandia (the holy places alight with religious nationalism, if you can parse that one), the face of the “most sacred river in the world” [...]