After Work Smiles

by | Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorized

I met Floyd and his mum on my walk from one town to another yesterday. A little rain started to fall and so I took shelter with them as they were coming out of the mountains from working their rice fields all day. Despite a long day in the fields Floyd was full of...

Oneness Delivery to Delican

by | Oct 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

This is my journey to Delican, a remote village in the Filipino mountains, to deliver a portrait of a family that I met on my last pass through their village. The village is 12 hours bus from Manila. One hour by rough dirt road. Three hours hike on a winding foot...

The Book of Job

by | Oct 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

I was talking to a friend the other day. She listed off the various things that have happened to me in the last few months– being hit by a massive Typhpon, landslides isolating my village, getting deathly sick, running out of food, having no connection to the...

Yelling, Cursing and Screaming are Good

by | Oct 10, 2010 | Uncategorized

Have you ever just yelled and cursed at the top of your lungs? I don’t think I have have. Not til this afternoon on my walk back to Sagada, anyway. I am too mild mannered and come from a culture where politeness and reason reign. I’ve been cooped up in bed...

Five Days of Fever

by | Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized

This will be what I call a Vaughn post– where I write about bad stuff. Bad stuff, sickness, accidents, anger, frustration are so much harder to write about. My good friend Vaughn urged me once after two months of golden sunshine posts that I needed to make it...

Steady, steady…

by | Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized

So, for those of you who have been following the 1Mandala project you have been getting our updates each week. Each update is the culmination of months of work by our team. Each newsletter reveals a component of the project that we’ve co-created over the last...