Swings
On the beach five bamboo poles are laced together with reed grass. Sisal rope holds an enlarged seat (a tide worn plank with blue paint and years to go) on which we stand swinging between Read More …
Back to School II
All good stories have a sequel, and if they are lousy stories they may have three or four. I was digging in the oceans of memory and unearthed a few tidal gems. The first was Read More …
Road Show Revisited
Moving through villages and along roadways I got the chance to see the emergence of the very new and the blooming of the traditional. The mountain of Watermelons is staged for the taking, touch one Read More …
Back to School
In bold tropical colours fruits fabricated in paper mache line up on the monastery grounds like students for roll call. This is not your average school! This is the Monks school where the poor get Read More …
Blessings all Mine…
In the 32 degree evening heat the ice-sculpture melts away. The heat returns the ice to water. The stylized dancer melts away and the bondage of her art melts into muddles of history. Story has Read More …
Art and the Phare Circus
A solo acrobat circles his stage with rice and slowly lays a golden rice mandala on the stage. Rice is more than food, rice is inter generational respect and trust. The acrobats reminiscent of the Read More …
Going Down the River
Just to set the record straight, we were going up the river, but it didn’t have a catchy song title. On the way up we saw the Royal Palace of Cambodia on the Mekong River, Read More …
Holy Rollers
A visit to the Royal Palace in Cambodia highlight the affluence of temples and palaces built with the donations of the poor. A disparity between thos who lead and those who follow has grown, continues Read More …
Back to School
A father picks up children after school. The transportation is not the issue! These children attend school in shifts. Either seven till eleven or one till five. The utilization of school facilities is brilliant, Read More …
Keystone Garden Seeds
In the south of Vietnam as we near the Cambodian border, near Than Cho there is Evergreen Island. A community of some 80 families who live in this Eco aware island without cars and roads. Read More …