Author Archives: billybaba
JANUARY 22, MONDAY
BUDDHIST BEAUTY AND PEACEFULNESS Yesterday jet lag caught up with me and I went cross eyed by noon. But late in the afternoon as the day was cooling and the sun was setting on a cloudless day Winsor took me
JANUARY 22, MONDAY
BUDDHIST BEAUTY AND PEACEFULNESS Yesterday jet lag caught up with me and I went cross eyed by noon. But late in the afternoon as the day was cooling and the sun was setting on a cloudless day Winsor took me
JANUARY 21, SUNDAY
A DAY IN THE VILLAGE On Sunday Winsor and I with the Anuradhapura Coordinator’s wife and child drove a long way to a celebration of the ways in which Sarvodaya had helped their village, primarily with a nutrition program that
JANUARY 21, SUNDAY
A DAY IN THE VILLAGE On Sunday Winsor and I with the Anuradhapura Coordinator’s wife and child drove a long way to a celebration of the ways in which Sarvodaya had helped their village, primarily with a nutrition program that
JANUARY 20, SATURDAY
IMMERSED This was my second day in Anuradhapura in northern Sri Lanka, the ancient capitol of Sri Lanka. I arrived on Thursday and slept after the long drive from Colombo. Friday was a rest day and all I did was
JANUARY 20, SATURDAY
IMMERSED This was my second day in Anuradhapura in northern Sri Lanka, the ancient capitol of Sri Lanka. I arrived on Thursday and slept after the long drive from Colombo. Friday was a rest day and all I did was
JANUARY 19, FRIDAY
BEING HERE It is so simple, really, that I wonder why it amazes me. I am sitting in Swannanoa looking out at Four Brothers mountain with the low today of about zero, and then I sit in a plane (four
JANUARY 19, FRIDAY
BEING HERE It is so simple, really, that I wonder why it amazes me. I am sitting in Swannanoa looking out at Four Brothers mountain with the low today of about zero, and then I sit in a plane (four
JANUARY 18, THURSDAY
COMMOTION I arrived at Bandaranaike National Airport in Colombo at 5 a.m. Sri Lankan time, 5:30 p.m. Swannanoa time. Where I wandered from counter to counter after discovering I needed to pay $60 for a tourist visa available on entry,
JANUARY 18, THURSDAY
COMMOTION I arrived at Bandaranaike National Airport in Colombo at 5 a.m. Sri Lankan time, 5:30 p.m. Swannanoa time. Where I wandered from counter to counter after discovering I needed to pay $60 for a tourist visa available on entry,
JANUARY 17, WEDNESDAY
INDIAN BUREAUCRACY Again and again over the years I have run into Indian Bureaucracy, whether writing down all my computers when I entered India to make sure I took them out again or refusing on the last trip to India
JANUARY 17, WEDNESDAY
INDIAN BUREAUCRACY Again and again over the years I have run into Indian Bureaucracy, whether writing down all my computers when I entered India to make sure I took them out again or refusing on the last trip to India
JANUARY 16, TUESDAY
SPACE AND TIME This is the first time I have flown directly from the United States to Sri Lanka. In all the many times that I have come to Sri Lanka I have been leading a group and I scheduled
JANUARY 16, TUESDAY
SPACE AND TIME This is the first time I have flown directly from the United States to Sri Lanka. In all the many times that I have come to Sri Lanka I have been leading a group and I scheduled
JANUARY 16, TUESDAY
SPACE AND TIME This is the first time I have flown directly from the United States to Sri Lanka. In all the many times that I have come to Sri Lanka I have been leading a group and I scheduled
JANUARY 16, TUESDAY
SPACE AND TIME This is the first time I have flown directly from the United States to Sri Lanka. In all the many times that I have come to Sri Lanka I have been leading a group and I scheduled
JANUARY 15, MONDAY
SARVODAYA Tomorrow I leave for Sri Lanka. In the early 1980’s Chris Ahrens, an adjunct at Warren Wilson College told me about Sarvodaya, a Gandhian Buddhist village development program in Sri Lanka. Before this I had taken several groups of
JANUARY 15, MONDAY
SARVODAYA Tomorrow I leave for Sri Lanka. In the early 1980’s Chris Ahrens, an adjunct at Warren Wilson College told me about Sarvodaya, a Gandhian Buddhist village development program in Sri Lanka. Before this I had taken several groups of
JANUARY 14, SUNDAY
LETTING GO Again I have the intense feeling of being two or more places at once. Sunday I went out to brunch in Black Mountain with my son Tom and his wife Kathy. We went to The Blue Ridge Biscuit
JANUARY 14, SUNDAY
LETTING GO Again I have the intense feeling of being two or more places at once. Sunday I went out to brunch in Black Mountain with my son Tom and his wife Kathy. We went to The Blue Ridge Biscuit
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 