Butter Lamp Girl
She arranges the cups so the count is 108, twelve rows of nine on a steel table marked by use, straightening wicks and filling each, according to implacable tradition. “Nah – massshstay,” eyes up…
Young Monk Becoming
Mingma Sherpa, age 8, waits in the courtyard of Thupten Choling monastery wearing Chinese-made jeans and a Chicago Bulls t-shirt. Tears river down cheeks turned to watch his dad disappear along the broken and muddy…
Cheese
A big cheese wheel, Gruyere, came bouncing, crashing down from a rack with several more in tow, emerging from the collapsing shelving with alarming speed. The cheesemaker, who doubled as the shopkeeper since laying off…
The Straight Lines of Fairly Dunn
It was already hot at eleven, and even though he’d only been plowing a short while Fairly left the long field to rest under the lunch tree letting George and Ross wander and eat grass…
The Day the Yeti Left
This is the place where elevation invented stairs. Several prototypes can be found abandoned in the forest. Be careful not only where you walk but how.Elevation in these parts has a reputation for being a bit…