It poured rain yesterday here in Kathmandu. This is quite unusual for this time of year. But it helps to clear the air of pollution and dust. Already I am feeling myself becoming congested here. I am also here to receive dental care. It is the only place in Nepal that I trust to have [...]
Archives for April 2010
Mindfullness
It is not rocket science that we need to know to awaken to our true nature. Along the path I have found that there are many an individual who would have some investment in being seen as an expert in this field. It has been most helpful to me to have a relationship with another [...]
Moonscape SOLD
IMG_4731, originally uploaded by gord clements. I am not really finished this but I thought that i would take time out from the political stuff to catch up with some of the art that i have created over the past few days. I probably wont have an opportunity to paint in Kathmandu over the next [...]
Follow Your Heart
Do whatever you must do In listening to your heart In living life as it authentically calls you to follow If you share your heart openly with me I will be more grateful to this gift than to any act of commitment or promise of loyalty That is the greatest act of love Following the [...]
Maoist Protest on Sunday
The Maoists will be going ahead with their protest on Sunday. VSO has given us the option to return to Kathmandu before the protest. At this point in time I am planning on returning today Thursday at 2PM. It remains to be seen to what degree there will be problems. I will attempt to communicate [...]
For Nepal: Rather than Love, than Money than Fame, Give Me Truth
This was a quote written by Henry David Thoreau and that iris and I heard quoted in the movie “Into the Wild” the other night. This film is about a young American’s (David McCandless) search for truth and about some of the baggage, challenges and diversions that he had to face on his short and [...]
Time of Escalating Possibility of Conflict
The main opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) has announced indefinite nationwide general strike from May 2 onward. Organizing a press conference in the capital on Monday, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that his party is organizing the general strike for “peace and constitution”. Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (File photo) He also said that the [...]
View From the Peak
IMG_3096, originally uploaded by gord clements.
Young Foragers
Foraging, originally uploaded by gord clements. Young ones going through the refuse at he local dump in Biratnagar
The Taste of an Orange
In past times every time I began to make plans to travel to a new place I would begin to research and in turn contemplate how it would be when I arrived there. My perceptions always never turned out to be anything like the possibilities that my mind created. Nepal was very much the same [...]
