alright, let me try to explain about ironing cotton sheets they start out crumpled like a wad of paper mistakes so some of us women set up an ironing board and begin a task we would not allow you to … Continue reading
Anne Hills
the laughter from the balcony carried the shimmer of a sunset fell like silver coins legal, tender came singing down ringing with each bounce on the dark macadam up over the ledge popped one smiling face then two a Punch … Continue reading
The birds are quite confused this year. In one day the weather betrays several seasons in one hour, the day itself. The fragile flocks head one direction then another circling, in feathered squalls turning, to follow their tails wing tips … Continue reading
My palms are still fluttering with the wings of the monarchs, burnt orange against the slate grey of lake and sky. Little grains of sand are falling from them as they warm to the winding path of our morning walk. … Continue reading
Ambiguity So, why did you go to India? To help, to shop or for faith? To see where I was born. And did you visit the ancient temples? Yes, and the mosques and the missionary churches. And … Continue reading
up here we barely flap our wings warm drafts from the valleys pull through the foothills that roll in endless succession fold into each other rough-cut emerald cabochons rounded by the wheels of time burnished by tireless winds I ride … Continue reading
There are more stars in the sand than in the sky along the Ganges/Ganga. We have put our travel bags in the tent, and met our rafting guide. Now, we gaze at the sparkling ground that leads us down to … Continue reading
From Agra we travel to Moradabad, where I was born at a Salvation Army Hospital. We arrive at our hotel in the afternoon and are informed that one of those 10,000 weddings I’ve mentioned will be taking place in the … Continue reading
April 24th is the most auspicious day to be married in India. Our driver tells us that 10,000 weddings will be happening on the day we depart from Jaipur, heading to Agra. Whether this is fact or fiction we are on … Continue reading
Plant a Million Trees for the Monsoon because the women of Africa have done this before you and if Africa was the cradle of humankind then you, India, were our first steps and we must begin again, placing bare feet … Continue reading