experience express train

Posted on December 22, 2007 by sol

My travels through Punjab and Rajastan have passed like the views through my window seat on the express train. Even the experiences themselves have been faster than than the time it takes for me to take out my camera. While I haven’t caught up to the words, I have managed to snap a few shots of the elusive beast and while I’m still hot on the trail, photos will have to suffice: 50 new pictures in the India album.

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*sol bows her “namaste” and gratitude to World Nomads Travel Insurance, ThinkHost and Merc for their ever-supporting roles in the realization of her dream.

a few faces of india

Posted on October 29, 2007 by sol

I’m too busy to type. So instead I invite you to Page 3 of my photogallery to meet the faces and friends with whom — and frames within — I’m currently living life…

moutain thoughts

Posted on September 29, 2007 by sol

I’m back from the Himalayas!

It’s been three weeks, so give me a minute to gather myself, upload photos and compose my mountain top thoughts…

peace,

sol

picture of peru

Posted on August 3, 2007 by sol

Only photos for now, but words are in the works…

click her heels three times

Posted on November 24, 2006 by sol

and then clicks her sticks three times…

…at a pre-wedding dandia.

India. My fourth homecoming to my favorite country in the whole world.

The new South India Photo Album has officially been born, barely weighing in at only one week old, and ever-eager to grow.

snippets of senegal

Posted on November 19, 2006 by sol

No time to type. But I think the videos capture colors of Senegal that would have faded in my print.

The people are the highlight of this country, so I’ll let them speak, laugh, dance, show and share for themselves…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-JCC8-VEc]

And 120 new pictures in the Senegal Photo Gallery

someone give me a super underdog

Posted on October 28, 2006 by sol

A challenge mounts as the pilgrimage continues…

Up, up and over, she goes!

feeling fall

Posted on October 19, 2006 by sol

If you are not a friend of leaves and trees, don’t go anywhere near the photogallery!

And a little video on how to navigate the chemin, sans plan…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90SeXbe7N8]

web

Posted on September 29, 2006 by sol

words.
borrowed and recycled only
they are a poor and crooked outline
of my dot-to-dot understanding
and web through which I see the world

A dozen pilgrims pass me,
strange glances they leave me,
except for one who stops to ask,
“Why? What do you look at?”

Some prefer strings of pearls and diamonds,
adorning a long neck or slender wrist.
But I will ever swoon first,
for the morning’s dew-laced web,
on the snow-white skin of dawn’s fog.

Not a fault of my French, but for forgiveness of all languages,
I sigh a wish to the world where words are stunned mute, and silences speak.
But my wish is a coin,
tossed into a well of unfathomable depth,
and with the padded softness and simplicity,
of that same coin’s awkward splash,
I reply; “Je l’aime.”
And put my pen to paper,
let its point sit and bleed,
adding one more crude period,
to my dot-to-dot understanding,
of this immaculate vision.