Category Archives: Experience the Moment

Day 8: Entrances and Exits

Posted on April 14, 2015 by

ENTRANCES AND EXITS I fly through today to tomorrow. Do entrances /exits Take on special meaning? Way in / way out L’entrée / la sortie Departure / Arrival Depart / Arrivée The first time You enter a building, A room, … Continue reading →

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Day 5: Fragments Flying in the Wind

Posted on April 9, 2015 by

Oh, it has fallen right in that pile of wet leaves. It’s fragments of some old paper. Maybe tissue paper. Whose is it? Wait, it is a letter from Christmas past. No, that is not possible. Pasts don’t write letters. … Continue reading →

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Day 4: Lost and Found, Part 1

Posted on April 8, 2015 by

Sometimes you feel you have lost something really important in your life but in the end it provided the motivation to change. I remember a time in my life when I had moved to Honolulu to be with a new … Continue reading →

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Day 3 Mood Indigo

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

“You ain’t been blue” is how it starts.  I recall as a teenager playing that record (a disk with grooves that when encountered with a special needle produced sound) over and over again.  I would dance and dance around the … Continue reading →

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Day 2: The Beulah House Revisited

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

  My grandmother and her two sisters lived in the small town of Beulah, Colorado. Nora Annie England Challinor Thomson was an intellectual, talented woman who was always positive.  She had a deep sense of caring for all people.  My … Continue reading →

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Free Write. Right?

Posted on April 5, 2015 by

Free write.  Free, right?  Is that really free?  I don’t have to pay for it.  Wow.  Is that the rite of free.  Free what?  Freedom, now that is a good concept.  We all don’t have it but aspire to it. … Continue reading →

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India Through My Eyes: Part 7 Jaipur

Posted on April 4, 2015 by

Jaipur was the first city in India where I arrived on my own.  I had opted out of an overnight train from Varanasi  to Delhi with a connection to another train to Jaipur. I was concerned about what would happen … Continue reading →

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India Through My Eyes: Part 5 Varanasi, City on the Ganges

Posted on March 21, 2015 by

  The impact that Varanasi made on me was extreme.  I was moved by the spiritually of activities along the Sacred River Ganges.  I had been aware for many years that Varanasi was the site of the dead being set … Continue reading →

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India Through My Eyes: Part 3 The Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

Posted on March 14, 2015 by

Overcome all obstacles to get to the Lotus Temple in Delhi at metro stop Kalkaji Mandir.  The day that Lenore and I went throngs of people were present.  They were wearing beautiful clothes of a variety of colors.       … Continue reading →

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India Through My Eyes 2015 Part 1: Introduction

Posted on March 8, 2015 by

My inspiration for travel to India was my mother’s trip to India the year following my father’s death.  She ended up traveling alone for nine months to all parts of India.  It was in the 1970s where e-mail was yet on the global scene.  She wrote … Continue reading →

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