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March 3, 2017. POSTCARD #253: Chiang Mai:. A short flight to Bangkok to see the needle man for the last attempt to anesthetize the head pain I’ve had for more than a year. Back to Chiang Mai the same day and it feels like it never happened, except for the pain where the needle went in the. Try to look normal while pushing out the capsules from their crackly celluloid enclosures, but what’s normal? It’s at times like these you notice the construct out of context. How am I seen? Next thing for me is an app...

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February 18, 2017. Duty-free, then boarding and take off catapulted 5 miles up into the night sky, look out and see a few stars shining. No one interested in food or drinks on this raggedy old, middle of the night, flying bus to Bangkok. Large, long-legged Indian men, block up the aisles with limbs like tree branches, trying to get comfortable in the small Thai economy class seats. I sleep as long as it takes for a neon tube light to be switched off, and switched on again,. When time and space and change...

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Valentine 2017 falling in love again. February 14, 2017. POSTCARD #250: New Delhi:. Then there was a small noise, and in response I opened my eyes; a shocking brightness of the here-and-now what’s happening? Some people were leaving and the rustling of their clothing had drawn my attention. Closed my eyes again and the inner enfolding sensation was still there. It continued like this and when we left I carried it with me, looked at my watch and maybe an hour had passed, completely enthralling. The panora...

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5 a b c. d. and e. Figures in a landscape. Updating this Art page has given me a reason to explore in the ‘old files’ which otherwise would have remained undisturbed. Are there, any evolving forms left unfinished a decade ago? The next image (b.) is the original sketch I think. I see it’s made up of four pieces of paper stuck together with scotch tape. I have no memory of doing it, but that’s not important because much of the original has morphed into something else. 6 a b and c. Structures. Right now I ...

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Dhammapada page is updated every fortnight. Commentaries are by Ajahn Munindo and the verses are from: ‘A Dhammapada for Contemplation’ (2nd edition), Aruna Publications 2006. A complete archive of verses is available, please click here. 8212;———————-. NEW MOON Saturday 25th February 2017. Mistaking the false for the real and the real for the false, one suffers a life of falsity. Dhammapada v. 11. 8212;———————-. FULL MOON MAGHA PUJA Saturday 11th February 2017. Moving Through the World. Hunger is the gre...

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March 3, 2017. POSTCARD #253: Chiang Mai:. A short flight to Bangkok to see the needle man for the last attempt to anesthetize the head pain I’ve had for more than a year. Back to Chiang Mai the same day and it feels like it never happened, except for the pain where the needle went in the. Try to look normal while pushing out the capsules from their crackly celluloid enclosures, but what’s normal? It’s at times like these you notice the construct out of context. How am I seen? Next thing for me is an app...

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Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...: June 2012

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Indie Vibes and World Tribes: music, film, travel and. The Best Entertainment from Far Corners, Nooks and Crannies. Sunday, June 03, 2012. A BAND CALLED CARAMELO, FLAMENCO OF MANUEL AGUJETAS, and THE FILMS OF CARLOS SAURA. Alfonso Cid handles those male vocal chores, mostly on “La Luna.” They never claimed to be a purist flamenco group btw, but influenced, so no false advertising here. The opening song, “The Girl is Gone” sets the hybrid pace, with a mosque-like chant “ no te vayas, nina. Serving up scra...

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Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...: January 2013

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Indie Vibes and World Tribes: music, film, travel and. The Best Entertainment from Far Corners, Nooks and Crannies. Thursday, January 24, 2013. MALI’S JIHAD #4, and Counting: The Day the Music Stopped. It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of lives in a place where life doesn’t allow much margin for error.  . The griot and djeli. Posted by Hardie Karges. Links to this post. Monday, January 14, 2013. By Paul Theroux si...

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Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...: June 2013

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Indie Vibes and World Tribes: music, film, travel and. The Best Entertainment from Far Corners, Nooks and Crannies. Friday, June 28, 2013. Vaud and the Villains - How Do You Spell E-C-L-E-C-T-I-C? The last thing I had in mind when I left my apartment last Saturday was to receive some musical epiphany at LA’s  . Park… yes, THAT  . 160;I really wanted to go see Alex Cuba at Levitt Pavilion in  . And I really like Alex Cuba, but you know what they say: “Time is money.” . Posted by Hardie Karges. Here’...