Printing prayers

Printing prayers | 10.31 I’d written about this, earlier — http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=346 — the power of that which is transcribed to translated prayer. That prayer is a series of sacrosanct sounds, it’s a vibration; it’s a...

The Tiger’s Nest

Bhutan Journal Taksang Monastery | The Tiger’s Nest For a decades, coming to this remote outpost, was a dream. You could call the entire trip to Bhutan as the exemplar for this sense of remote connection — something powerful and distant; something...

remote connections

Greetings and good morning. It’s been a while — and it’s been a wild while…literally. Things are primitive here, but actually more primitive than I’d thought. Hard to find ways to link in, even in places that I’d thought I’d...

Scent and the making of smoke…

Bhutan Journal I’m a lover of scent; I’ve explored that for some time; I’ve even got a collection of rare old books on fragrance — and fragrance making. I just like to smell things. Books, pigments, antiquities, art objects, stone, leather,...

Light, dark, shadow

Light, dark,  shadow | 10.29 | Trongsa Dzong I’ve learned a lot about light. And about seeking it, finding it. Going there. Where light is. And where it isn’t. In fact, I’m still learning about light. And I’ll be always learning about light,...