i rode from Nako down through Tabo on to Kaza today as i heard that there was going to be a celebration there for the lama's birthday...tabo is a beautiful place and i wish i had spent the night there as they have a beautiful monastery with stunning wall fresco's some over 1000 years old and well preserved...i would have liked to see the monastery at dankar as well and maybe spend a night in mud...however i thought that the lama's b-day comes only once a year and what an opportunity it would be to participate in it...well it wasn't that great...first of all there wasn't any cake...i mean it's the lama's b-day and no cake...i spoke with a 11 year old representative of kaza and i expressed my disappointment...he said that i would have to go to Darmasala to get cake because that's where the lama was...i told him that i didn't understand after all we are celebrating the b-day here in Kaza and the lama isn't here...he disagreed and insisted that only where the birthday boy is will there be cake...i told him that i didn't like that idea and that i was going to go buy some cake for myself so i could celebrate...he smiled and came around thinking that i had a pretty great idea and that it would be auspicious to share that cake...
while sitting watching the lama's b-day ceremony a village girl beside me sneezed on my arm...it was a wet sneeze too...i even said bless you to her...although i don't know her...where she's been or what type of sneeze that was and i am thinking that maybe i should have said god bless me...i still feel the wetness on my arm and i slowly begin to rub my elbow against my t-shirt...wouldn't want to insult her or anything would i...
rest in peace
mag
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