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Trekking the Himalayas
I thought “trekking in the Himalayas” sounded pretty intense. “Let’s go trekking” conjured pictures of mountain passes and fancy gear. But amongst my friends, at least, trekking is just a hike in the mountains. Towards Triund As we were finishing up hillhacks, Manuel and I decided we’d finally escape some of the event tasks and…
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Tink at hillhacks
Hillhacks is challenging to write about. It’s got a lot going on. The only common theme of everyone’s experience is transformed perspectives. People come to Dharamsala, attend hillhacks, and go away changed. They quit their jobs. They leap into projects with new collaborators. They fall in love. They change careers. They take the first step…
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Hillhacks Gala Show
Highlights from the Hillhacks Gala Show One of the cool things we did at hillhacks was to create a Gala Show on June 6. At our venue, Shiv Shakti, we discovered a natural ampitheatre in the woods and created a wonderful stage. There was a crew clearing brush, we cleared rocks, dug out steps and…
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Off to India again
Tod is taking his sabbatical and we are off to India for ten weeks. I’m organising the school outreach program at hillhacks in Dharamsala and after that, we will see where the monsoon winds blow us. What a great adventure!
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Unexpected body work
Yesterday in Yoyogi Park I was hula hooping while waiting for a friend when an older man holding some attractive red tasselled ropes walked over to watch. He looked interested, so I stopped and offered him a hoop, “Wanna try?” He shook his head and pointed at his back. “Oh, but it can be…
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49 becomes 50
Today’s my birthday; I’m 49. Forty nine’s a square, one of my favorite squares because 7×7 was the first part of the multiplication table that I memorised and always felt confident about. I loved that two pointy-angled numbers combined into two digits with the same shape – one pointed and one rounded. I don’t think…
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Scorching Orange and Mint Salad
We had a strange assortment of leftovers from a party, including a bag of oranges, a bunch of mint and and a whole jar of black olives. A friend recently returned from a trip to South America gifted us some unidentified dried chiles. This must be a salad! The addition of cilantro and salt rounded…
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The 2015 Equinox Storybook
At our annual equinox bbq yesterday, we collaborated on a short story. Each of us wrote a sentence then passed the book to someone else. The results are odd and probably say quite a bit about the mind of each writer. I did the illustrations this morning and photographed the pages. Things…
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1993: Sisters in Song
Cleaning out some of my photos and memorabilia, I came across this treasure. Me, Louise Zbozny, Shirley Mounts, and Jen Zbozny after our first place triumph in the Fiberfest Talent show. We performed a ten minute musical. Country girl (Louise) versus her city-loving sister (me) with Jen as our neighbor and Shirley as the Narrator.…
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Juggling in Yangon
I spent the past week in Yangon, Myanmar, for a juggling festival & social circus project organised by Serious Fun in Yangon. Me and two dozen other international jugglers flew in to do shows and teach workshops all over the city. We worked with disabled kids, a monastery school, rescued child soldiers, and the general…
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