Mar
06
Night Train to Yerevan
I was shaken awake by a dark grey blur and slow, deep voices. As my eyes opened, a tattooed rosary
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Odd Ends:
Articles, reflections, poems, and travel tales of the weird and wonderful.
Feb
22
One Last Sunday
I lay there with my head resting on the grubby pillow of some cheap Nepali digs I’d found after
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Feb
22
Afternoons With Marjane
And we'd sit in her dingy little kitchen drinking rose tea, watching the steam from the Persian rice
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Feb
21
Art As Nourishment
For most people, art’s an amenity.
Puppetry on the periphery of Life.
We consume, excrete, work, make love, sleep,
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Feb
20
As I Watched You Bathing in the Ganges
Something stirred in me as I watched you bathing in the Ganges.
Your young, slender body relinquishing the sari so
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Feb
17
Andheri Mornings Pt. 1
I'd washed up in Bombay by early March 2020, two weeks before the world shut down.
Auroville had
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Jan
26
The Crumbling West
Everywhere, in all directions, our Western social fabric is crumbling.
Undermined from within by millions of privileged ignorami wielding their
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Jan
19
A Collective Memory
There is a collective memory on this planet forgotten somewhere in the archaic recesses of our story.
An amnesia birthed
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Jan
18
Religion: The Antithesis of Art
Religion is a mastication.
It makes reality more digestible; more palatable.
It is the great distraction of the masses, as
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Jan
03
Egypt: A Guide
Ah, Egypt.
Often misunderstood, under-appreciated, and glossed over with superficial, half-baked assumptions trivializing its socio-cultural complexities. It's a
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