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To a Jubilant Sea: mangos
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To a Jubilant Sea. Thursday, June 21, 2012. I took this photo in May while I was visiting my parents up north in Rajshahi. Rajshahi is mango country, and mango season is just beginning. When later on I learned the word "fertile," I allowed the memory of that mango pit on Bangladesh's soil to be the image that captured the meaning of that word for me. You are a fertile country, Bengal. Your monsoon rains are coming, and your mangos are ripening. Bengal, Oh Mother mine,. June 21, 2012 at 3:27 PM. I am much...
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To a Jubilant Sea: May 2011
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To a Jubilant Sea. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Longing for the Annapurnas. Our trek, the Ghandruk loop out of Pokhara, was all-too-brief, owing to some visa problems that required one of us to get back to Bangladesh a couple days before our week-long vacation ended. But even in those three days, I saw more mountainous glory than I had ever anticipated. The small taste of Himalaya was enough to seize me - heart, soul, body - and extract a promise that I'd return. Who has summitted Everest 10 times and has co...
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To a Jubilant Sea: April 2011
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To a Jubilant Sea. Saturday, April 16, 2011. To the sea we went. I believe I have discovered my new favorite place in Bangladesh. Is it surprising that it involves an ocean? Although the price feels steep for Bangladesh (the rate for a 6-person bungalow just doubled from $70 per night to $140! And this was the first place in Bangladesh where i didn't see any trash on the ground for three days. Although made from recylced natural materials, the decor was also very tasteful in almost all cases - especially...
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To a Jubilant Sea: diluted haiku
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To a Jubilant Sea. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. About a small turtle swimming. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). From a jubilant sea. A flood o'erflowed,. And pulling at oars sat we all. Laden until it could barely float,. So we filled our feeble boat;. Through torrents we rowed. To a jubilant sea. Those behind - we heed them not,. Nor frenzied cries that danger looms;. Why, any fool can cry life's dooms. Call a curse and fault our fate. While on grassy banks they wait! But as for me with halyard taut.
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To a Jubilant Sea: February 2011
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To a Jubilant Sea. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From a jubilant sea. A flood o'erflowed,. And pulling at oars sat we all. Laden until it could barely float,. So we filled our feeble boat;. Through torrents we rowed. To a jubilant sea. Those behind - we heed them not,. Nor frenzied cries that danger looms;. Why, any fool can cry life's dooms. Call a curse and fault our fate. While on grassy banks they wait! But as for me with halyard taut. And song arising loud in heart,.
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To a Jubilant Sea: August 2012
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To a Jubilant Sea. Friday, August 31, 2012. Proud in the mud (or "the surprising hibiscus"). This afternoon I was surprised by the sudden appearance of this pink hibiscus in my garden. That's why- when the green plants of my treasured green space began to wither and die last year- I hired a gardener for a day to doctor it up a bit. Tik koron, shundor koron. Fix it, make it beautiful," was my simple plea, "Oh and rong lagbe. On the flowers and birds of Bangladesh. From the States I brought back a pair...
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To a Jubilant Sea: Eleanore Godfrey Thorpe
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To a Jubilant Sea. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Here I am again, sheepishly returning to this blog that I've left abandoned since October for no reason other than my lazy surrender to these eyes that are so tired of computer screens. However, I daily berate myself for missing the opportunities to pen stories of Bhaktapur's temples in Nepal, of village treks in Bangladesh's hill tracts, scuba diving on Thai islands, or even of the rare luxury of a decadent sushi feast in Dhaka. The Gardner library incident...
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To a Jubilant Sea: August 2011
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To a Jubilant Sea. Sunday, August 14, 2011. As the sun rose over what have been called the “killing fields” of Sri Lanka, I fought to keep my eyes opened and focused on the scenes rushing past the window of my bus to Jaffna. The journey here had been a long one so far - as most in South Asia admittedly are. The third term of teaching English in the Access Academy at AUW had come to a close the 14. By the UK’s Channel 4, with footage of the undeniably atrocious war crimes was produced recently and s...
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To a Jubilant Sea: September 2013
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To a Jubilant Sea. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. About a small turtle swimming. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From a jubilant sea. A flood o'erflowed,. And pulling at oars sat we all. Laden until it could barely float,. So we filled our feeble boat;. Through torrents we rowed. To a jubilant sea. Those behind - we heed them not,. Nor frenzied cries that danger looms;. Why, any fool can cry life's dooms. Call a curse and fault our fate. While on grassy banks they wait! But as for me with halyard taut.
