>Well, I didn’t go to see the Buddhist ceremony yesterday. There were number of reasons why I didn’t go, which are too numerous to mention. I was very disappointed, but I know I will have other opportunities to learn about…
>I have been working with the Limbu weavers in Kathmandu, Nepal since the second week of September. It has been difficult to get online until recently because I was living in the outskirts of Kathmandu in a place called Gokarna,…
>This is a wonderful description of how to crochet 3D shapes! I have been looking for instructions on how to do some of these for a very long time. An excerpt is below. Crochet is usually relegated to the domain…
>This is a blog action day that I heard about on COLOURlovers. I think it is a wonderful way to get people to focus on the issue of poverty. An excerpt from the article is below. Our good friends over…
>It is amazing how adaptable life is! An excerpt from the article is below. In the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California, scientists have isolated a bacterium that fuels itself on arsenic. read more | digg story
>It is amazing what kinds of phenomena are out there in nature! These are images of Brocken Bows and Glories. An excerpt is below: Imagine hiking on a sunny mountain and witnessing an unforgettable phenomenon worthy of a Hollywood special…
>I was looking for a map of Kathmandu, Nepal, as I will be there for the month of September and I found this map on Lonely Planet. It has icons showing various places there, which I found very useful. I…
>I will be going to Nepal this September to visit with a group of weavers of the Limbu tribe to learn about Dhaka weaving. The women belong to a fair trade group in Nepal and they want to broaden their…
>On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that begins in Canada’s northern province of Nunavut and…
