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Packing List Mantra

Saturday, June 12, 2021

  GUATEMALA CITY —Packing a bag is an act of meditation.  The packing list, written down and repeated becomes a mantra that embodies the will to move from one place to another, the incantation that calls the trip into existence. This is a list, and a story about a list, that I have been working […]

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Trips That Didn’t Happen

Sunday, June 6, 2021

GUATEMALA CITY—I wanted to call this essay, “Trips that Never Come to Pass,” or “Trips that Never Happened,” but that would presume to know the unknown. “Trips that were Postponed,” assumes they actually will happen and, “Trips that Were Postponed but Might or Might Not Happen, Who Knows Anything Anyway?” is just awkward.  My life […]

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The Camel Fair of Pushkar

Sunday, April 26, 2020
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Varanasi & Ganga Ma

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  VARANASI — It is the black hours before dawn. The boat pushes out into the slow current. The ghats and towers of the ancient city are outlined in the light of dim electric bulbs and small fires. Those lights create a half circle of light over the river that fades into the black of […]

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The Camel Fair of Pushkar

Sunday, November 27, 2016
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Night City

Sunday, June 19, 2016

BOMBAY–Rush hour starts late by American standards. At 8 a.m. the traffic is light. At 4 or even 5 in the evening the traffic is insane but light by Bombay standards. 7 p.m. is a madhouse of trucks and horns and motorbikes and rickshaws and trains and buses heading home into the evening.  The city […]

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The Coming Storm

Thursday, June 2, 2016

MUMBAI—There were drops of rain on the windscreen this morning. The surface of the Sea Link bridge was wet and there were towering grey clouds in the near distance pierced by light grey rays of sunlight. The news tells of rain in the countryside, rain to the east, rain in Sri Lanka. The official start […]

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The Gateway To India

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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A Moment in Traffic

Thursday, May 26, 2016

MUMBAI — I had been out photographing the streets of south Bombay all day.  It is the hot season.  I was tired and on my way home and almost ready to put my camera in its bag.  We stopped at an intersection and I looked over to see a little girl staring at me.  I stared […]

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Bring the Mountain to Mumbai

Thursday, May 19, 2016
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