by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
Bhutan Journal The Treasure Revealer at 7 Years of Age. His Holiness | Terton Drukda Dorji What length, these days. What breadth, in experience. Beginning at 4.30am, climbing to Taksang, being the first there (on the most spectacularly auspicious day), summiting above...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
What splash, what psychedelia, that is India! Dizzy-making, whirling, whizzing, a deep folio, colorations like anything, but all mixed up. Splattering and spattering — carnival. Color spinner. What inspirations, found in the sheer nerve of these combinations....
by Tim Girvin | Oct 31, 2007 | Diary
Printing prayers | 10.31 I’d written about this, earlier — https://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...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 31, 2007 | Diary
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...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 31, 2007 | Diary
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...
