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• DAILY PHOTO: Scene from the Central Volcanic Zone

  

  Taken near Sabancaya in the Peruvian Andes in the Summer of 2010 Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: El Castillo

  

  Taken in the Summer of 2010 at Chichen Itza Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Electricity House & Other Ahmedabad Street Scenes

  

  Taken in September of 2017 in Ahmedabad Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: So You Say Your Job Sucks?…

  

  Taken in Ahmedabad in October of 2017 … Does it “pedaling-around-a-dozen-gas-canisters”-suck? Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin

  

  The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin M... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Finger by William S Burroughs

  

  The Finger by William S Burroughs My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is book #25 in Penguin’s “Modern” series. These short books (less than 100 pages)... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Beautiful Death Poems

  

  5.) In Flanders Fields by John McCrae excerpt [2nd stanza]: We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Mountains with a Splash of Yellow

  

  Taken in Kashmir in August of 2016 on the Great Lakes Trek between Naranag and Sonamarg Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Other Side

  

  one never, ever, crests a rise without killing off a pack of lies the ugly lie: it’s all descent belied by cold, granite torment the pretty lie: continued... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Shimla – Kalka Train

  

  Taken in June of 2015 on the Shimla – Kalka Toy Train station editorial comments passing engine open air postal elephant a curious passenger reminded me of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Foisted, Or: Bizarro Liam Neeson

  

  He fancied himself a Bryan Mills as played by Liam Neeson in “Taken” … only the Bizarro World version. For he had no particular set of skills [least-wise not... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Door-to-Door Durian Delivery

  

  Taken in Hanoi in December of 2015 Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Pleasures of Being Rained In

  

  rainy season spatters onto big leaves — like banana leaves playing the jungle like a white noise orchestra close your eyes and the wall of sound drags over... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Fisherman on Loktak Lake

  

  Taken in May of 2017 on Loktak Lake in Manipur Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Moon Haiku

  

  day moon subdued but looming soon gone sliver moon crescent vanishing hanging lure mountain moon lighting valleys show my trail shadowless til milky moonlight... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Rathaus

  

  Taken in December of 2016 in Vienna Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Amboseli

  

  belly-deep in glacial runoff amid an emerald sea a mud-caked troupe of elephants the marsh free of acacia trees Kilimanjaro looms in the distance the source of... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Barachukki Monkey

  

  Taken in July of 2014 at Bharachukki Falls in Karnataka Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mynd Aground

  

  Masters of the mind? what an arrogant crew thinking they could run a man like a ship and when the voyage ended on a rocky shoal surrounded by pirates pirates to... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi

  

  Taken in October 2015 in Varanasi (Benares) Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL