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FEBRUARY 14, WEDNESDAY
VARANASI RETAIL WEDDING MARKET Indian weddings are elaborate affairs with an entire street dedicated to selling wedding supplies: brightly colored decorations of all kinds and elaborate hats for the grooms and wedding party. Susie wanted to visit the market to
FEBRUARY 14, WEDNESDAY
VARANASI RETAIL WEDDING MARKET Indian weddings are elaborate affairs with an entire street dedicated to selling wedding supplies: brightly colored decorations of all kinds and elaborate hats for the grooms and wedding party. Susie wanted to visit the market to
FEBRUARY 13, MONDAY
CLUELESSNESS This is probably my twentieth time or more to visit Varanasi. And it is probably close to my tenth longer stay of two weeks to a month and the fourth stay at the Sahi River Guest House. And I
FEBRUARY 13, MONDAY
CLUELESSNESS This is probably my twentieth time or more to visit Varanasi. And it is probably close to my tenth longer stay of two weeks to a month and the fourth stay at the Sahi River Guest House. And I
FEBRUARY 12, SUNDAY
WALKING IN VARANASI (2) More photographs of the lanes and ghats of Varanasi.
FEBRUARY 12, SUNDAY
WALKING IN VARANASI (2) More photographs of the lanes and ghats of Varanasi.
SEPTEMBER 11, SATURDAY
WALKING IN VARNASI (1) Of course I am not responding to everything I see as I walk down the street, my iPhone in my hand, ready to record anything that touches me. I am only showing the more exotic or
SEPTEMBER 11, SATURDAY
WALKING IN VARNASI (1) Of course I am not responding to everything I see as I walk down the street, my iPhone in my hand, ready to record anything that touches me. I am only showing the more exotic or
FEBRUARY 10, FRIDAY
LETTER TO MY FRIDAY OLD MEN‘S GROUP RAMNAGAR FORT Friday at McDonals was my one scheduled activity each week in Swannanoa, so I notice here also when it is Friday. And remembering the five of you sitting around the table
FEBRUARY 10, FRIDAY
LETTER TO MY FRIDAY OLD MEN‘S GROUP RAMNAGAR FORT Friday at McDonals was my one scheduled activity each week in Swannanoa, so I notice here also when it is Friday. And remembering the five of you sitting around the table
FEBRUARY 9, THURSDAY
RAMESH SINGH BOUNDARY For four years, since I was here last in 2019, the Ramesh Singh Boundary has been on my mind. This is a colony of makeshift houses combining doors and odds and ends and lots of sheets of
FEBRUARY 9, THURSDAY
RAMESH SINGH BOUNDARY For four years, since I was here last in 2019, the Ramesh Singh Boundary has been on my mind. This is a colony of makeshift houses combining doors and odds and ends and lots of sheets of
FEBRUARY 8, WEDNESDAY
(REALLY FEBRUARY 22, 2019) PILGRIMS Todd, Susie and I are settled in the Sahi River Guest House with a wide glassed in porch where we sit with a view over the Ganges. It is $13 a night, so we could
FEBRUARY 8, WEDNESDAY
(REALLY FEBRUARY 22, 2019) PILGRIMS Todd, Susie and I are settled in the Sahi River Guest House with a wide glassed in porch where we sit with a view over the Ganges. It is $13 a night, so we could
FEBRUARY 7, TUESDAY
SAI MAA Yesterday Todd, Susie and I went on a walk through the narrow lanes next to the Ganges and passed by the large building under renovation which four years ago we saw being dedicated to the presence and teachings
FEBRUARY 7, TUESDAY
SAI MAA Yesterday Todd, Susie and I went on a walk through the narrow lanes next to the Ganges and passed by the large building under renovation which four years ago we saw being dedicated to the presence and teachings
FEBRUARY 6, MONDAY
WALKING THROUGH VARANASI BACK LANES The small shops along the narrow lanes running parallel to the Ganges from Desasvamedh Ghat to Assi Ghat attract pilgrims in their bright best clothing who combine doing the Hindu rituals expected in Varanasi with
FEBRUARY 6, MONDAY
WALKING THROUGH VARANASI BACK LANES The small shops along the narrow lanes running parallel to the Ganges from Desasvamedh Ghat to Assi Ghat attract pilgrims in their bright best clothing who combine doing the Hindu rituals expected in Varanasi with
FEBRUARY 5, SUNDAY
ASSI GHAT Our guest house is at Assi Ghat. Ghat means steps to a ritual bathing place. Varanasi is built on a high bluff on the outside of a curve in the Ganges River. In the summer monsoon the river
FEBRUARY 5, SUNDAY
ASSI GHAT Our guest house is at Assi Ghat. Ghat means steps to a ritual bathing place. Varanasi is built on a high bluff on the outside of a curve in the Ganges River. In the summer monsoon the river
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 