It’s incredibly strange our obsession with time. We capture still & moving pictures, write things down, record music & sounds, all in an effort to stop time. We save copies of our time in books or little electrified metal and plastic boxes — in our possession or in the possession of corporations who like to call electrified Forge Ahead
Being Here Now
Tonight I found out that Ram Dass passed away. I only knew his name from stumbling across his book, Be Here Now, a few months back wandering at Barnes & Noble while taking a break from work. I flipped through the book, was struck by the wildness of the imagery and text, but ultimately put it back. Forge Ahead
Waimano Valley Loop Trail
Life is often like walking through a forest. Surrounded by oft unfamiliar environments full of different beings that we can’t always see but are surely there living out of view, we move along pathways formed by those who came before us. Both in life and on the trail, we sometimes can only see right in front of Forge Ahead
Patan Durbar Square
Kathmandu is filled with ornate architecture, and one of the best places to view it is in the royal squares, important parts of the old kingdoms that once made up Nepal. Patan Durbar Square’s architecture dates mostly from the 1600s. While I was visiting, many temples and buildings remained closed due to reconstruction from the devastating 2015 Forge Ahead
Around Thamel
Thamel is a popular tourist district within Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. I opted to stay in Thamel for a weekend in order to freshly renew the stay on my Indian tourist visa. On my previous visit to Nepal in 2015, the country was in the midst of violent protests over the passage of a new constitution. Forge Ahead