My last twenty days ( Read more... )

A long time ago, I had a memorable phone call from a friend of mine, a real heart to heart, after he had been arrested, jailed for about three weeks, then released on bail. After all these years, many of the details are his: his voice, his emotion, his descriptions; though I know many the details, now, after so much time has past, are definitely ( Read more... )

So this past weekend I went to the crystal skull conference in Edinburgh. Now I own this dowsing crystal, and I don't exactly know what to do with it. Anyone know how to dowse properly with energy crystals?

Oh, and apparently my aura is green. Whoa, right?

In any case, Happy Thanksgiving!

I saw off the last of my old batch of Trinity friends yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm telling you, I just stepped out of a movie set. Or a novel. Real life could never, never be this bizarre.

We went to the Tate Modern art gallery in London last week and saw this atrocious modern art display. One of the paintings was this giant blue fourteen-foot canvas with a bit of red and yellow splattered about. The label states approximately ( Read more... )

Safari in Namibia ( Read more... )

I didn’t notice the rain until the hail started. Then there was a cacophony and a terrible prickling noise that wouldn’t stop. I was drinking coffee with Sanela in the hostel common room. The noise of hail made her fingers stop tracing the lace on the tablecloth ( Read more... )

It was surreal, suddenly. The world had turned dark sepia, like a washed and overexposed film, all the shapes all blurred and meshed. I didn’t know if I was dreaming or if I was merely a figment of imagination ( Read more... )

On the plus side, the antibiotics have started to kick in. I'm able to eat more than just soft crumpets and water. I've also booked my course, flights, and (thank god, finally) accommodation in Sarajevo. Now I need to start getting prepared ( Read more... )