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Hot Days in Gujarat
Mandvi Beach Resort – hot, windy and dry like a desert with an ocean next door. After hillhacks and trekking in the mountains, we decided to visit some friends in different places around India before heading to Bangalore. I’ll say this was the least good part of the trip, but reviewing the photos and recalling…
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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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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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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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Hillhacks (in Summary)
Tod & I just returned from Hillhacks, a tech conference for “hacking and making” in the Himalayas. It was an incredible experience for both of us. Dreams came true, doors opened, and plans formed. But I am getting ahead of the story. Ironically, the one thing that didn’t happen on this trip is what took…
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Memories of Dad at Anam Cara
This is Dad’s window at Anam Cara, a writer’s retreat in West Cork, Ireland. I waited until our last day there to go into the room to look at it. It casts a beautiful rainbow on the bathroom wall. The design of palm trees and pampas grass echoes the plantings in the front of the…
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Revisiting Anam Cara
Twelve years ago, Tod & I visited Anam Cara for a poetry workshop given by my sister, Jenny Hill, and Jack McGuigan. (My main memory of that trip is memorialised in this poem.) When I realised that we’d be in the area this year for the European Juggling Convention in Millstreet, of course we had…
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Couldn’t Drag Me Away
Group Shapeshifting workshop at Florida Flow Fest We’re just returned from three weeks of travel in the US. The first week was in Florida where I taught two workshops at Florida Flow Fest. It was a delightful festival with lots to learn and plenty of people to meet. I made some nice connections there and…
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What’s important?
Tod asked me a difficult question last night as we discussed current events and the state of the world. “What’s important to you?” The question carried an implied “And which of these things are important enough to act on?” which does limit the answers to more than theoretical concerns. I had three main areas of…
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