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Find the Monk

Monday, May 8th, 2006

The street looked like most of the others I’d been lost in all week.  This time I was watching for signs of the World Federation of Buddhism.  After recieving some unusually excellent directions at a dry cleaner’s I found the building and bumped into other raggity westerners.  [read on]

Ciao Barça, let me go…

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Barcelona kept me for awhile.  I couldn’t get to bed before 4 and I couldn’t leave [read on]

Inspired by… Dale! … I mean Baudelaire

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Before I left my friend Dale gave me a book and I opened it to find this poem: 

ENIVREZ-VOUS
Il faut être toujours ivre. Tout est là : c’est l’unique question. [read on]

toothpastetoothpastetoothpaste and prep.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

This weekend I borrowed a backpack from my friend Graham, bought and browsed the Lonely Planet guides, then exchanged some of them for CultureShock! Thailand and First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers[read on]

Hard work/Rusty Toyota

Monday, March 20th, 2006

It’s been five years since I’ve left the States so I can’t wait to fly to Barcelona and then Bangkok next month. The last five years I’ve worked really hard at school, supported family and friends, and neglected some other things like music, meeting lots of good people, and traveling. Next August I’ll jump into medical school and the goal is to keep paying attention to the more important parts of life – the stuff that makes us alive, A.L.I.V.E.

“We all live in a Yellow Ryder Truck…” my family harmonized as we barreled through rural Ontario towards our new home. It was 1990, mid-July, Bush I had just invaded Iraq, we were moving to Canada [read on]