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Sai Baba’s Ashram
Written by paula in Tuesday, June 15th 2010   

More than a century ago, a 16-year-old mystic began performing miracles in Shirdi, a town in east-central India. He split his time equally between the Muslim mosque and the Hindu temple, spreading a message of unity and tolerance. His message and his miracles won him thousands of followers, who worshipped him as a living god. [...]

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Israel in two acts
Written by paula in Tuesday, December 22nd 2009   

SCENE ONE: JERUSALEM’S WAILING WALL. Bring an engineer to Jerusalem, and he’ll be the first to point out that the holiest site in Judiasm is a structural retaining wall. The “Wailing Wall” is an appropriate name — hundreds of Jews wail, sob and bow at this otherwise ordinary-looking 2,000-year-old wall at the base of the [...]

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Spain: farming in Andalucia; Kim gets lice
Written by paula in Monday, June 22nd 2009   

We’ve spent the last several days on the farm, living in a camper van, and doing some pretty tough labor. One afternoon we spent pounding rocks into smaller rocks with a sledgehammer and then pouring cement over it. Another afternoon we spent filling in the cracks between tiles in an old swimming pool. Another day [...]

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