This morning on my day off I went for a walk up into the hills beyond the town limits. My home is at the northern boundary of Dharan . My back yard begins to rise into the Himalayan foot hills. As the temperature is beginning to rise into the mid thirty’s my house is well [...]
Archives for March 2009
Blogging from Nepal
I am finding that the most satisfying blogs for me are the ones that are the most truthful and that reflect who I am. This can be tricky. There is part of me wants to embelish my experience and my self importance. But I think that in coming to live life fully there is no [...]
Embracing Doubt March 25
From March 17 I am noticing that this theme about searching for something seems to be one that I talk about a lot. It is once again on my mind. Just coming to know some of the locals in a new more intimate way than the training in Kathmandu had permitted has caused me to [...]
Important Person in Town March 25
This town of the same population as Peterborough is much smaller in some ways for me. Every one here seems to know what I am doing. It is possibly partly that I am one of the few whites that is here but somewhat inseparable from this I think that it is as well a sense [...]
Fear and Opening March 18
I read a story the other day and it touched me as containing the seeds of much truth. In the story a person arrives at the doors of heaven demanding service saying “don’t you know who I am ”. When the gate keeper does not respond he asks “why is this so”. I can relate [...]
My Home in Nepal
When I returned to Dharan I was surprised how many people stopped to talk with me and noticed that I had been away for a while. My friend next door Ganesh and his twenty one year old daughter Anisha and his 19 year old son Reagan dropped by and we talked for a few hours [...]
Return to Dharan
I have been in Kathmandu for 24 days now but I will be flying back to Dharan tomorrow morning. I returned here on February 20th to attend a quarterly review session wit VSO and was planning to return after a week but because of bandas and protesting the east west highway was shut down. The [...]
Kathmandu P Guest House Still Life
Kathmandu P Guest House Still Life, originally uploaded by gord clements. My first painting in Nepal from the Kathmandu guest House that I was staying at for the first few months. I used watercolour and pencil for this painting.
Banepa Foot Hills
Banepa Foot Hills, originally uploaded by gord clements. Walking in the hills of Chunko Besi and Banepa in Nepal there were many an opportunity for inspiration. The Himalayan mountains stand behind the hills hidden by the misy. I took the opportunity to do an on site water colour painting of the Annaphurna hills
Color Dessert
112 Desert Color, originally uploaded by gord clements. I was feeling in a colourful mood and this painting provided me with an opportunity to play with colour in a more abstract way than usual. I still attempted to capture the blue of the sky an colour of the earth and plants.
