Greetings Friends! I love being in China, and I LOVE Yunnan! It is definitely one of my favorite provinces. It is a magical place – one where the skies are blue, the clouds a glowing white, the mountains reach for the sky, the water flows clean and clear, and the temples shine with their bright…
Greetings Friends! Like many of you, I am struggling with many feelings, including grief, anger, fear, devastation and great loss after the result of our election. I feel we have missed a most wonderful and powerful opportunity to have Hillary as our chief leader in our country. And instead, I am struggling to come to…
Greetings Friends! Oh so much to share!! One of the many things I’ve been reflecting on while here in China is just how fulfilling each day is. I love the simplicity of waking up knowing I’m going to eat yummy Chinese food ALL day! 😀 And that I get to speak Chinese ALL day too!!…
Greetings Friends!! YAY!!! I LOVE being in China!!! I still am not sleeping past 4:30 a.m. yet (due to excitement and jet lag…and the fact that it’s almost the summer solstice and the sun rises here before 5:15 a.m.) But I enjoy getting up, greeting the day with qigong practice while the sparrows flutter and…
Greetings Friends!!! 🙂 Oh YAY!!!! I’m so, so, so HAPPY to Be HERE with my beloved Chinese family!! 🙂 So in my last blog I left off with us arriving in Zhengzhou! I was soooo happy to arrive, as it has been over 1.5 years since I’ve seen Dr. Zhao and Ayi! I adore them…
Greetings Friends!!! YAY!!!!!!! Oh my Goodness!!! Guess What?!! I’m back in CHINA!!! 🙂 Haha! I’m so excited to be back here!! I LOVE being in this land that is like another Universe, yet I feel so at home! I had decided to stay in the U.S. last year as I was healing a back injury…
Greetings Friends! Another China adventure is coming to a close. Gosh I find tears welling up in my eyes. I so love being here. I feel I can be of good, good service here and I feel so grateful to be gifted with a whole other “world” (CHINA!!) to explore so richly, so deeply and…
Greetings Friends!! Oh gosh! So much to share! Even with only a few days going by, there’s so much in each and every day! 🙂 So first, after completing our 15-day trek and flying from the highest airport in the world (in Daocheng Yading) to Chengdu, several of us from the trekking trip enjoyed another…
Greetings Friends! Yay! So below are many stories from the 2nd half of our trek/pilgrimage to beautiful Mt. Genyen and the high Tibetan grasslands….so without further adieu…. On to Genyen!!! Oh my goodness!!! It was just amazing to be back at this sacred mountain. There are now 2 monasteries here as the new one…
Picture taken by Ardai B. Greetings Friends!! Oh my goodness!! So much to share! We just completed our 15-day trek in the Tibetan Plateau! This is the last time Szu-ting, Dave and I are offering this particular journey….and it was such an auspicious one. So much to share from our journeys from Chengdu to the…