Leaf: Reading the newspaper. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: A bunch (herd?) of water buffalo under a tree. (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: 1st problem: Cricket ball has landed in a pile of cow crap. 2nd problem: The cow is ramming you with her horns whenever you get close. Solution: Fish the ball out with a stick. Shabaash Babu! (Varanasi, India)

Rae: Today Isaac decorated the table with my paints and ate dog food. You know, in the first hour he was up. (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: This is our friend Barda Bhai (Big Brother) who comes from a place in Russia right near the Mongolian border. He introduced us to his friend from Moscow today. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: I really liked this lovely piece that Miriam made for the center of our meditation circle. (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: The packing and sorting continues! This is a pile of all my journals from the past 7 years. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: We had a little flood in our storage room after a heavy rain the other day, and somehow the one metal trunk that leaked was the one with the school books in it. We had a book drying party. (It's still going on.) (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: Streaks of saffron and yellow catch my eye always, in this city where sadhus (Hindu holy men) roam.

Rae: Lovely wood in the late afternoon light. (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: A Brahmin Bull quietly sleeping and quietly shining. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: Today I bought boards for making signs. (Pai, Thailand)

Leaf: We've been sorting and packing our house to leave India. Today I found my folder full of hand drawn flyers which filled my heart with sweetness. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: The farmers are plowing these fields. I love the color of the earth, with the lovely bamboo stands in the background. (Pai, Thailand)