The sky is blue, and the clouds are white. Drizzling nights and burning daytime sun, yet leaves you perfectly content. The rainy season cultivates wildflowers, mushrooms, and other vegetation that charm the plateau. The pedicularis (lousewort) flowers in cream and purple color, The meconopsis poppies and gentian in blue and white, And potentillas anserine (silverweeds) […]
Wishing you all a Happy Losar. Losar is the Tibetan New Year. It’s the year of the dog. The holiday mixes both sacred and secular rituals. From a cultural perspective, Losar is like Christmas for Westerners, except Tibet’s New Year in Reb gong lasts 18 days. Year after year, we relish the rich heritage of […]
2017 was a year of change. My little family relocated from Madison, Wisconsin, to Vancouver, Washington and then finally across the river to Portland, Oregon. I’ve made changes before, moving from country to country, continent to continent, but never twice a year. Each move enabled me to meet new people, gain new perspectives, and experience […]
