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 | Jun 7, 2020 | Environment, India, Mother Earth
I didn’t write anything for my regular Writers Group tonight.. and the reason is…. Tonight I was mopping up after a cyclone.. “where?.. what?.. a cyclone.. what are you talking about – the storm was last week and it wasn’t even that bad?” No .. a cyclone.. and...
by Shazar | Apr 10, 2020 | consciousness, India, writing
seems to be worse these days.. it’s always one of those obstacles that I need to move around in my life. I sit to do something and find suddenly that there is something way more pressing to do peering at me out of the corner of my eye. Ah – just do that.....
by Shazar | Mar 6, 2020 | India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
The heat is intense. She is flat on her back – the fan is on 3 .. whirring and clattering a little as it labours its way around its age. Stretched out on the striped floor mat, her sari loosened for the night – she cluthces a damp cloth in her hand used to...
by Shazar | Jan 25, 2020 | Food, India, volunteering
My Indian Kitchen Yesterday was a flurry of doing just what was necessary here.. I woke early – meditated for a short time then began my day – my morning things the time for myself – drinking my morning drink and preparing for the day. The morning...
