tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157465049811771952024-02-18T17:56:52.358-08:00first manhattan then we'll take berlinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915746504981177195.post-71954361683090494802015-02-15T21:49:00.000-08:002015-02-15T21:49:57.207-08:00We ate everything ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: MinionPro;">Cathy wrote this small ode to after her visit with us. I was touched by the piece and wanted to add it here. Thank you Cathy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As I emerged from the Metro steps at Boulevard Saint Michel, I was not prepared to be cast so intimately into Paris; stone
buildings are softened with curves, fountains call for your stray fingers, and people everywhere, eating. I was swallowed
up by the smell of butter, smoke and dirt as we darted with luggage in hand to the Crêperie Des Arts. Our bodies brushed
against other bodies, passing cafe tables, and trees just opening for spring. We hurried. We were hungry.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We devoured them all: cheese, egg, banana, chocol</span><span style="font-family: MinionPro; font-size: 11pt;">ate. We ate every scrap of tender crepe, then licked our fingers. And
thus began be the pattern of my brief stay in Paris: great hunger followed by ravenous eating, then back again to hunger, all
immersed in curved iron, spires, and door after door leading to food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Every morning Paul brought back a small bag from the patisserie to supplement our spartan breakfasts of baguettes and
hot chocolate. It was something new every day: pain au chocolate, Norman tart, almond croissants. We ate them all,
knowing there would be no lunch and miles of walking before returned at night. In the days that followed, I embraced the
communal nature of eating in Paris. On park benches we shared bites of crackly croissants, crumbs dropping shamelessly
into our laps. We looted the scraps from one another’s paper bags, hoping for a forgotten meringue. Even at breakfast, we
tore at our buttered baguettes until they disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It’s better to buy a little knife, so you can slice the bread, cheese, and peppers you bought at the market that morning before
shopping for canvas linens for Paul’s art in Montmartre. At Abreuvior Street and Place Dalida, we found a bench, made
sandwiches, and watched the people walk by the pink houses on Abreuvior Street, down from the Sacre-Coeur.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“Do you want a picture?” I asked Linda.<br />
“No,” she said. “I just want to sit on this bench and look at this street and the people coming down.”
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I stole one anyway. Not of the pink houses, but of them, eating olives and the last of the baguette. Over the next few days,
I took a few of Linda and Paul in Paris, and thought about how immersing in an experience without a camera represents
hope. Hope in one’s ability to remember, hope in returning, and hope in one’s experience.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Rather, we sat a long time at Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, discussing the symbolism, the politics, and the intertwining
bodies brushing the green sea.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">And then there was Bernardino Luini’s Salome receives the head of John the Baptist. Her youthful, smug face, the hand of
the executioner, the act of holding the plate. We sat a long time there, too.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">After the Louvre we took the long walk to the Jewish Quarter for falafels, cold sodas, and fruit tarts. At the little park
around the corner we shared a bench and watched children run and the teenagers play ping pong and smoke cigarettes.
With heavy eyes and stomach we stretched our legs, smelling the blossoms teased open by the afternoon sun.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“Are we here to experience?” I asked Paul later, between mouthfuls of cream and banana crepe, “or to say that we’ve experi-
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“Sadly, I think most are here to say they’ve experienced,” he replied.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It’s better to share in Paris. To feel the hunger for walking, then to eat in the sun, passing bites between you. It’s better to be
frugal in Paris, to bypass the tours and the taxis and smell the city on your clothes when you go to bed. Without pictures,
we fear we will lose Paris. But live like the city is yours, and it becomes so.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We will remember the smell of the wind-lifted lilacs and hanging over our bench as we drifted to sleep, the vibrant blue of
the Van Goghs, and cool stone of the cathedrals. We will remember the long eclairs, the giant meringues, the tender maca-
roons. I can see the stretched shadows of streets in evening light, the tree-lined paths to metro steps, and people kissing on
every street. And we will remember the urine stains on the walls of the cathedral, the shoe-worn, stone steps of the metro,
and riding my bike near cars so fast their sudden breeze lifts your shirt of your sweating back. In her beauty and her belly,
Paris accepts you, elevates you to her own through the acting a part in her dirty, sweet opera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I’m in a quiet corner of the airport, waiting to board my flight home. A young woman breezes past, finds a small table,
drops her bags, and pulls out a small paper bag. with several French macaroons. Checking the lighting, she brushes off the
table and arranges the contents of the bag—delicate pastel macarons—in a whimsical stack. As she maneuvers around the
table, I hear the hear the distinct, slow clack of an expensive camera. My mind wills her to eat just one—to drop it thought-
lessly in her mouth. But quickly, she stuffs the macaroons back in their bag and hurries off.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Then, I thought of the clafouti we ate on the stone steps of the Heritage building, with its dark, sweet cherries and sugary
crust. And the old straw chairs we sat in at Saint Merry’s Church as we listened to the mournful baroque cello. Or the old
man in the cafe in his suit and red scarf, flirting with the waitress. The ring on his finger, the hat at his side, the way the
waitress touched his arm. I pulled out my notebook and began to write.
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.
We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be
reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was
in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The DDR was infamous for their State
Security (the Stasi) looming over every facet of it’s citizens lives. </span></div>
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working in the midst of Gedenkstatt, the Stasi’s secret walled off city of
office blocks, electronics facilities, surveillance technology, forging
machinery, data and records centre, chemical experimentation lab, and secret
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Lives of Others.” It is a film about a Stasi agent who steps outside the
strictures of his assignment in an ill-fated attempt to save a couple who he has
become obsessed with. They stand out because they live honestly, which is at such odds with how
disingenuous life in East Germany had become. Working in the midst of the Stasi
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and people grows a security apparatus. On my first morning in Berlin I went for a run and found myself fascinated by a large old less-used complex of buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I found, this area was also used
by the State Security Services. It made me aware that “security” consumed an
ever increasing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>percentage of the talents,
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how amateur the DDR was when compared to our secret society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have recently become aware that our
governments are involved in secret renditions, black sites, enhanced
interrogation<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=915746504981177195#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>, drone
strikes, remote targeted assassinations, rules of engagement, the down loading
of all our emails and texts, back doors into computer programs, paying internet
companies for access, private security contractors, and massive data storage
facilities in the desert. We have become the Stasi global in scope.</span></div>
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intrusive nature of this small communist country. The Germans behind the wall
called themselves the German Democratic Republic (DDR) and in order to preserve
their republic they annulled Democracy. But from them we learn that no matter
how consumed a culture can be with security you can never be totally and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">phone pic of the view from my painting studio window</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Painting: "Stairs" (from Stasi office building turned studio ... maybe eventually Langley will become a large studio space ... "IMAGINE")</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Etching: "title yet to be determined"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only in India, is cricket played on every vacant lot ...(like soccer in the UK, Basket Ball in the USA, or hockey in Canada)</td></tr>
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full, reschedule you through another city, make you wait in the airport 8
hours, promise you a hotel but never get you one, force you to storm the first
class lounge, only in India will the management back down when you threaten a scene, change the gate without posting
it on any board, and still get you into Katmandu late on the second flight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Only in India can a communist protest be organized in
support of a woman in the middle of a hunger strike. (she is demanding a proper
investigation into the murder of her husband… by the way only in India are 66% of prisoners serving time have not yet been convicted of a crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poorest might stay in jail 5,6, or
7 years without a conviction for a petty theft, only because they cannot afford
bail or a lawyer) <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">only in india is it OK to have a pellet range attached to whatever local attraction.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">and only in india is riding elephants one of those attractions.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to get in the next door at the airport</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">5. when been patted down, everyone gets the pat down </span></span><br />
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dangerous</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">8. when going through the gate, next, the soldier, who looks at the
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We got off at the wrong train stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When recognizing the error we realized
the train we had been on was still in the station, I grabbed our luggage and
ran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we got to the train Linda
protested that she<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“was not sure
what the correct direction of the stop.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Linda dug her heels in and said “I won’t!” I jumped off the train, furious!
Linda frantically looked through her notes and yelled a station name to the
platform guard who repeated “yes, but yesterday, ma,am, yesterday.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again I ran for the train jumped on and
again Linda repeated “No I won’t !“ Even more angry, I again jumped off and
pushed the luggage in utter disgust. However, only in India, the train slowed
down, (magically or through some human intervention) came to a stop and we able
to get on the last car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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when returning to the scene a few minutes later see that ants are carrying away
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Everest poking its peak out from behind Lohtse. View from Kala Patther.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This blog entry was imagined as the pictorial climax of my
6 months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took photos each step
of the way to record our legendry ascent to the highest place in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then at base camp, at -15
degrees and 5400 m the SD card failed. So I will annotate a truncated version
of the events.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">waiting and waiting and waiting</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Day 1-3: The airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First flight into Lukla is gold, we were on the second
flight, and Katmandu fogged over and the flight was cancelled. Day 2 we got to
the runway, sunny weather, step onto the plane, the pilots step off, share a smoke,
and get into a truck and drive away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bad sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spend the rest
of the day in the airport, at 4 the flight is cancelled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Day 3, we are determined to fly
somewhere, Lukla sure, but if by 10am we are not in the air, refund, and fly to
some other part of Nepal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get a
boarding pass at 8, miracle, as we are only booked for 11, wait in the
departure lounge (which smells of urine, you can imagine how intense that smell
was at 3 pm the previous day) we pass through the gate, onto the little bus
that lurches toward the plane, onto the runway, get on the plane, the pilot
starts the engine we taxi, takeoff, but I know only when you land is a trip to
Lukla real.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Landing in the most dangerous aiport in the world is an
experience in itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You drop
over a ridge, wind buffeting the small plane, the runway appears below, looking
to be vertical and very short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
plane lands hard, brakes are applied, and very quickly a rock wall appears in
front of the plane, which marks the end on the runway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plane into a small parking area, passengers
are whisked off ,one propeller still turning luggage tossed off and then on, 12
new passengers are quickly ushered on, and the plane leaves within 5
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Takeoff is a terrifying
descent down the short tarmac and liftoff as the ground descends into a gorge
and the plane begins a precipitous ascent to scale the nearby mountain range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mani Walls and Buddhist script carved onto rock slates</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A dog followed us for the first day</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">view from one of the 6 suspension bridges</span></td></tr>
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companies and hire a guide porter directly. The men that confront us at the
airport are mangy and shifty, not like the clear faced, nice men that helped
the other trekkers at the airport, the ones vetted by the companies that hire
them. We walk across the one street of Lukla with its dirty hotels and take
safe haven at a tea house, and then I walked alone without my bag, and
successfully navigate finding a reliable guide for the trip. (I asked some
nonchalant men sitting in the sun and guickly a 12 year old boy appeared, I
have to decline, and say I am looking for someone your age, and I am introduced
to an experienced guide, Pemba, phew). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lukla the green mountains, villages, river, and small gardens quickly shake off
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have had a fever and a head cold for 4 or 5 days, probably exasperated from
sitting in the airport, but at altitude with no heat, snow, and when the pipes
all freeze, the illness explodes into a fever of 102, coupled with shakes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(brushing my teeth is like using an
electric toothbrush) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily the
worst of the illness happens on a rest day, a day to acclimatize to the
altitude, and I get anti-biotics, pain-killers, cold tablets, throat syrup to
guzzle and which soon freezes, and try to get better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mountains newly covered in snow surrounds one as you walk, following a ridge,
then descend to the river, then again climb 500m to the monastery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decide to descend a little lower to
Deboche as this section of the trail is covered in ice and the descent at 4pm
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river and cross the bridge looking up the valley and Amadablam that looks like
a mirage as the sun sits behind it and it appears only faintly sitting in the
sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You climb from the river to
Pengboche and make your way up the valley eventually climbing to Dingboche at
4400m. On the acclimatization day the views of the two valleys emerging are
fantastic Amadablam on one side Taboche Peak on the other. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Dughla, climb the pass, cross the memorials of those who died on Everest, and
enter into what is now the Khumbu Valley. A straight valley greets us, and we though
the snow following the trail past Laboche towards Gorapshep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The end of the day is a circuitous
traverse of the ridge above the glacier, but you are greeted with remarkable views
of the entire valley and the peaks of Nuptse, and Lohtse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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altitude, the 7 hours of walking, the broken nails on your big toes, the frozen
squat toilets, the loss of appetite, no vegetables, the 12 hours a night in
your sleeping bag, it is all for the view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be on the top of the world to see a landscape that can
only exist in one place. Amazing, beautiful, spectacular, and in one case the
word awesome seems completely appropriate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dughla, and down towards Periche (a wind tunnel that looks like a town from a
western movie, one street, a few lodges, some corals just out of town, and a
bar or two.) We walk over the Periche pass and down to Oches having dropped
1500m in the afternoon. From Oches
we descend the following day to Namche, and from their the next day we make it
to Lukla, where we spend the night in a dark town, cold lodge, and dank room
and pray we can get a flight out of the town the next day. At this point you just want to get hot shower, a salad, and a good night
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Kolkata are like the set of blade runner and I wanted to write something about
this, about how the extraordinary becomes gradually normalized, but I was reading a book while here, and came upon this monologue
delivered by a character in the novel.
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capable of giving up everything for something I believed, in something I
wanted without thinking about the risks? Have I ever believed in anything or
anybody intensely enough to do that? I realized that I never believed in
anything seriously and that's why I never made a radical commitment. Does it
have something to do with the fact of being more or less European and white and
being born in that rich protectorate that is the north of the world, where
everything is arranged so that nothing ever shocks you where life really ought
to disgust one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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anger. I feel ridiculous poor disgustingly poor in spirit. I feel infinite
sadness having it all and at the same time having nothing. It is contradictory
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destruction and learned books and terrible peace treaties; many people have
died so that we the grandchildren of the century can have what is crushing us
today, as if we were on the verge of falling into a deep sleep and opium sleep.
Coming to a place like this is a way of breaking up completely, opening your
eyes and once they are wide open you can't let them close, Beyond the borders
of our beautiful countries there is a terrifying outside world filled with
life, a black sun that stretches over a number of continents only revealing its
beauty after the first impact. What we see on the surface is horrible and cold
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that is lovely and everything is bright and shiny, But with time what we see is
the horror. I do not want to go back to that Opium dream that is out paradise
of the north. I'm staying here with real people and real problems, Where
everyone has to go up on the trapeze without a net and the struggle for
existence is real and not a metaphor; I've found life here, I've understood the
value of that miraculous fragile thing called life and that's why I developed an
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the business of navigating a changing India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They run a small home-stay in Munnar the heart of the tea
area in Kerala.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Munnar is a
respite from the rest of India. Cooler temperatures and the orderly carpet of
tea plants spread over hundreds of hectares of luscious green hills, are in
stark contrast to life below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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business as they they try predict India’s response to its interaction with
modernity. Using their conversations with Europeans they have a small window
into what is next. However theirs is an uncertain dream in the flux confronting
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by hyper-competitive entrance exams their son attends boarding-school where he
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</span>Anil says, “this cannot be healthy” and thinks his son will leave this
system stunted socially and personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But what can you do in a country that demands competition for limited spaces
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 17px;">However, the view of the gorge below has eventually drawn others to share the dream. A massive hotel is being built a block away. The idyllic paradise has been shaken by a large mega construction. Anil’s frustration is palpable and he sees this intrusive style of development as wasteful, environmentally and socially. The money would be better used promoting people to expand their homes, create home-stay’s, and encourage a more equal distribution of social capital that would be sustainable that blended into the natural landscape. They are frustrated with a culture of greed that is pervasive in this new India. </span></div>
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</span>Like many in modern India families have been wrenched apart as Indians
have taken advantaged of a global economy and moved to North America, Europe, and
the Middle East. But they are living their dream and it is too late for them.
But they worry for their son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Should he not be able to enjoy the privileges of a western education and
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he is 16 and they would
miss him terribly and are concerned how he would manage on his own in a new
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then how could they
afford this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although comfortable
in India the money they earn would not go far in Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means his education would be
prohibitively expensive and would require them to liquidate some of the
investments they might rely on in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children, but with sacrifice comes with expectations. However, he is
uncomfortable making claims on his son’s future he really just wants him to
have the best in the world. Anil’s and Jeeva’s real concern is that they will
not be able to visit him, touch him, and they might in the end lose him. How
can they facilitate what is best for their son in a fiscally and personally
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be able to choose whatever she wants to study and be happy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells me her favorite subject is
Science, but Jeeva see’s an artistic talent that she hopes will remain. But
they do not want to fuss about her art, “let her discover it on her own.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe there is an art school near
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best school and to be wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marriage will ultimately define their future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, a dowry is still necessary, but for a boy to marry he
needs to be well off and established and that requires the best education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about a love marriage? (they
themselves fell in love at school the 18 year old Anil flirting and courting 16
year old Jeeva under the watchful eye of her father the Botany professor.) So a
love marriage? Yes this Ok, but they will wait and see what happens in the
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Jeeva, as long as it is
a Christian partner, this will be alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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landscape. For our part, Linda and I
were so privileged to be allowed to share their concerns, dreams, and
views. The greatest facet of
travel is to be able to meet people and get to share their humanity. Anil and Jeeva have given us that
chance and we wish them well as we all make decisions about our respective
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 17px;">We stayed a week in Kunnar. Wow. Not much
to say only one of the most beautiful stretches of beach in the world. What
makes it remarkable is that life around the “Home-stays” goes on as before. No
touts or honking or “what can I do for you mister” or “where you from” only an
authentic curiosity from the locals who are fisherman, school children, and
local villagers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 17px;">This cannot last. Ten more years at most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An airport is being built nearby that
should change things and then all the land along the shore will be bought up
and hotels and guesthouses will spring up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roads will be pushed into the area (we had to walk down a
steep hill and follow a 5 minute foot path) then another magical spot will be
gone or at best shared. Although, this inevitability will be seen as
development and progress.</span></div>
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window of my beach hut onto the ocean, in a bathing suite, 30 degrees, no
clouds, swimming every 20 minutes, Frisbee, great food, sun-burnt, long walks
along the beach or following footpaths through villages, this is paradise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in India. Kerala voted in the first Communist Government in the world and then
voted them back out again. That the Muslims, Hindus, and Christians live in relative
harmony with each other, there is no religious conflict.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On the first night in India Linda and I walked through the
neighbourhood for the first time to stretch our legs and get our bearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came across a religious ritual being
performed on the side of the road and I stopped to take a picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was quickly besieged by a man, then a
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some might mean 20 rupees so what.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Then a spoonful of sugary fruit cocktail was put into my hand and I
licked. Constantly people would
repeat “buy some” and as I finished I reached for my pre-organized 20, haven
been separated from all the newly acquired crisp 500 rupee notes in my pocket. Finally getting up and asking how much for “buying some” they
laughed and explained bisum was the name of the gruel I had just eaten and bid
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Renouncement, is a virtue of Indian religion. Going can be depressing leaving behind your
home, dog, garden, cars, work, and families is difficult. But you tear it
apart, wash it all, bleach, pack, visit, clean, and drop it all off. I had a
dream I was packing up my classroom, the room was large and things were all
being cleared. The phone rang and
it was the principal but I could not talk. The cords were all wrapped and interlaced
and I was instructing someone to throw all the paintings away, and the hurt
look of the students was palpable.
I then found myself outside the school hidden behind a bush and in the corner of my eye I saw movement. I threw my spear and it penetrated
through a deer’s back, who then staggered away. I felt terrible, lost, and irreconcilable,
I tried to call animal rescue but the shame of it woke me up. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tells tales of traveling to Africa from Germany in the early 50's. Day’s in the
air: Rome, Malta, Nairobi slowly leaping towards Johannesburg. He met a woman
along the way wearing leopard pattern clothing, a large landowners daughter, who
took a liking for my father, in no small part because of the book he was
reading, “The Love Making of __.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For him and people of his generation flight still meant exploration the
beginning of an experience that has changed from the exotic and romantic to commoditized
and organized; a challenge for planners. It is in modern airports that you
really sense this. Your unique adventure is shared by millions. Like you they are
pushed, shuttled, herded, bused, checked, and scanned. Scenes from "</span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Koyaanisqatsi" flood up to me. Those endless fast motion
images of subways, highways, roads, and people being pushed through the body of life
like so many cells, and you suddenly feel lost in a vast mechanism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that is what makes the idea of travel so amazing. Seven months to think only your own
thoughts, to live a life of your mind, free! Making things, even travel blogs, to be rushed by a sense of urgency to make more pictures. That is the most exotic
of thoughts. It makes the inconveniences of travel a joy, exhilarating, the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915746504981177195.post-27807815567210824312014-02-02T19:43:00.001-08:002014-02-10T06:39:26.265-08:00For my father who has always criticized me for not writing.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Write the great travel adventure. Paul ...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was always, “dad I am an artist, the travels eventually appear in photos or
paintings.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">To which he
would resort "bah" and most recently, the sensitive father that he
is, "pictures don't say anything, you need words!" (Based on the
number of paintings I have sold he is empirically right)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My Dad brought himself up on great travel narratives. Edgar Snow who visited Mao and Gandhi in China and India, the writer who traveled to the Caucasus in Russia in the 1930's and fights with Tito in Yugoslavia, and Skorzeny the great German adventurer. In his mind these books lit up his own sense of adventure, they may have been the reason for his quest to leave Germany and explore Africa in the immediate post war world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So here it
goes, words. I have made some small attempts at recording travels. I made
some small books "Annapurna" and "All the Rooms..." these
being just photographs bound together thematically. I also made a book of
images of people more or less at work. Beaten to it by Salgado and
Burtinsky I still recorded my same fascination with the patterns of life in a
small book titled (creatively ) "Asia." But these were furtive
attempts, Here I will actually use them, words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Typically
words elude me. I will obfuscate and certainly correct them. According to
a recent student I also abuse them. So to actually construct words is
intimidating. Construction is a difficult task. constant tinkering is needed and required. I probably lack the discipline for it.
Luckily an on-line audience demands less of them, words.</span></div>
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