dhamma footsteps

Chiang Mai: Went down to Bangkok with Jiab and our niece M, aged 12, for the New Year get-together with family, which was happening in the house where we used to live. Strange familiarity of furniture and objects seeming to jump o...

OLD NOTEBOOKS: A VILLAGE NEAR HAT YAI: JULY 24. 2012: Silence all around in the heat of the afternoon, save for the sudden ‘crack’ of roof tiles expanding in the high temperature. Birds and insects for the most part quiet, an isolated singl...

OLD NOTEBOOKS Bangkok-Delhi flight: A glance around the departure area at Bangkok, the gate for the Delhi flight, and there are children running around. It’s a weekend flight; plane is going to be full of kids. Okay...

OLD NOTEBOOKS: Chiang Mai: Stuck in a tuktuk at the intersection, a huge volume of traffic coming the other way. We’ll have to wait 10 minutes maybe. Driver switc...

OLD NOTEBOOKS: Bangkok: The Thai new year came and went and it happened I had to go for a medical, nothing important I thought, but the doc said my blood pressure was a bit high and gave me some pills to take. Anyway, when M got to hear about it, she had to have the term blood pressure explained to her and I became her patient – she’d arranged something on the porch,...