spiritual travel
Monks, Mud, and Meditation: A Day Above the Clouds in Namobuddha
Rain has a peculiar way of compressing time. It stretches the minutes in a hotel lobby like taffy, makes the already questionable Wi-Fi even more metaphysical, and turns our trekking plans into a Netflix binge of collective staring. By mid-morning, the clouds part just enough for us to remember we are still in Nepal — a country where [...]
Blood, Butter, and Banter in the Kathmandu Valley
…in which I meditate in a cave, get politely kicked out of another, and end the day drinking rum like a well-meaning colonial ghost. I woke up in Kathmandu on day three with the sensation that my legs had been sneakily replaced in the night by a pair of antique sewing machines—functional, but protesting every step. Not that it [...]