by Shazar | Sep 3, 2021 | Food, India, travel
Food Glorious Food – Hot chappatis and chai!! A challenge we all face when travelling can be the food. It’s such a basic comfort – and travelling can show us very quickly how attached we can be to our usual diet. “Where’s my muesli? Where’s my...
by Shazar | Jul 6, 2021 | consciousness, Environment, India, Mother Earth, travel, volunteering
It was a train to Mumbai – I hadn’t caught that train before.. I had no idea what it was going to be like. I didn’t know that I would have to run.. have to push and jostle and shove to even get on the train. I didn’t know that there would be no place to sit.....
by Shazar | Mar 22, 2018 | India, Life Skills, travel
You might think I learned to follow the rules, or that the Indian bureaucratic system was embroiled into a complete mess.. or possibly I could have learned that the best thing to do when entangled in these webs was to listen carefully and totally follow what is...
by Shazar | Sep 6, 2017 | India, Life Skills, travel
I wake early on Saturday morning – its relatively quiet yet.. kids doing sport yelling deep in the background – birds – the occasional rickshaw sputtering. The sound of the mop and bucket cleaning the tiles downstairs. The metallic clatter of the...
by Shazar | Sep 6, 2017 | consciousness, travel
Emotions are the roller-coasters of life. How would my life be if I can detach from my emotional body? Would that be freedom? Would that be flat, like a desert plain with no ripples, no valleys, no heights? Who would I be if I left my emotional self on the shelf...
by Shazar | Apr 18, 2017 | consciousness, India, Mother Earth, travel
I saw a doco about a man who paints on walls.. he painted in Vanuatu and there he contributed to the community. He painted a wall in a very obscure place – far from the tourist walks. He paints big walls in big cities, but this small contribution warmed his...
