Turning the Wheel
Posted: November 20, 2015 Filed under: articles, buddhism, people, time and space Leave a comment
Pharadon Phonamnuai on the essence and fun of planting trees in Chiang Mai.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/771044/turning-over-a-new-leaf.
Laotian moonshine, look closely
Posted: November 18, 2015 Filed under: photography, places Leave a comment
Bottles of moonshine on sale next to the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos.
From Finding Them Gone by Red Pine
Posted: November 17, 2015 Filed under: books, buddhism, people, poetry Leave a comment
Looking For a Recluse and Finding Him Gone
Below the pines I ask the boy
he says his master has gone to find herbs
he’s somewhere on this mountain
but the clouds are too thick to know where
– Chia Tao, (799-833)
Bill Porter’s (Red Pine) new book is a meditative tour of the grave sites and homes of China’s greatest poets, another one-of-a-kind journey by America’s most interesting Buddhist scholar and travel writer. It will be published in January 2016.
From Melville’s Moby Dick
Posted: September 24, 2015 Filed under: books, states of mind, time and space | Tags: american fiction, herman melville, moby dick Leave a comment
One of dozens of such illuminative moments: “… for it is so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one of the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while causelessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.”
The White Man and Laddawan
Posted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: people, photography, time and space | Tags: laddawan hamric, photography 2 Comments
Me and Laddawan with two friends at a neighborhood bar two nights ago. They were projecting a TV program on a screen behind me. September 20, my birthday.
Backwoods Church In East Texas
Posted: September 20, 2015 Filed under: photography, sight seeing | Tags: backwoods churches, photography, southeast texas 5 Comments
Part of a documentary photography project I worked on in the 70s and 80s.
Orchids, Ingenuity & Recycling
Posted: September 4, 2015 Filed under: photography, sight seeing, states of mind, time | Tags: ecology, orchids Leave a comment
IPhone Photograph
Abandoned Backwoods Church in East Texas
Posted: August 21, 2015 Filed under: photography, places, sight seeing, time | Tags: backwoods churches, photography, southeast texas 6 Comments
Part of a documentary project on backwoods churches in The Big Thicket country of southeast Texas that I worked on during the ’70s and ’80s.
Forever Fashion
Posted: August 19, 2015 Filed under: people, photography | Tags: art, fashion, hill tribes, mekong river Leave a comment
A profusion of textile art on my friend who lives in the mountains on the Mekong River near Laos.
First You Must Last
Posted: August 17, 2015 Filed under: books, sight seeing, writers | Tags: ernest hemingway, writers Leave a comment
Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home in Oak Park, Ill. “Il faut, d’abord, durer.” – (“First of all, one must endure.”) – A saying of Hemingway, from a letter.
the roy hamric journal 