Ponderings – Coffee, Tea, and Reverie

The Collapse

October 7, 2018. 7 years ago today I left India, so weak I struggled to even board a plane to Bangkok while keeping my possessions together. Passport, wallet, phone, backpack, carryon, passport, wallet, phone, backpack, carryon was my mantra until I was safely and all together in a hotel near the hospital. My body hadContinue reading “The Collapse”

Let All Creation Praise

I was euphoric as two friends and I loaded our belongings onto the roof of a taxi that cool April morning. Dawn was breaking and it would be an incredibly gorgeous Himalayan day. I was embarking onto a new venture, one I had longed for and prayed about through the previous thirty years. At longContinue reading “Let All Creation Praise”

How Did It Feel?

The virgin’s scream pierced the darkness and startled restless livestock.The curse of Eve had traveled history to even the stable in Bethlehem.The newborn cried to clear his lungs and gasped His first of earthly air.His damp body shivered in unfamiliar breeze;she wrapped him tightly, held him to breast.He suckled, hungrily seeking comfortin that strange, darkContinue reading “How Did It Feel?”

Once Upon a Time

the deepest yearning of our hearts As a child I was an avid reader, especially in the summer. Every Monday during summer vacation my mother took my brother and I to Malvern Public Library where I returned the previous week’s five books, read cover to cover, and I checked out five new books. I vividlyContinue reading “Once Upon a Time”

Winds of the Himalayas

The Day God Sang over Me What does one do when all has been (seemingly) lost? What does one do, where does one turn, to whom does one run, how does one go on? These are the questions I was asking myself during the life crisis I described in my last blog, Along Right PathsContinue reading “Winds of the Himalayas”

Along Right Paths

how my life verse found me My whole world came crashing down around me in October of 2001. Life as I knew it came to an end. I of course knew there were grave problems. I had no idea how grave. Until November 9. When the Himalayan-sized mountain of evidence was presented to me IContinue reading “Along Right Paths”