Goodbye Masala

Goodbye to occurences like these:
-while receiving our lung, I was wondering why Khenpo Pema Sherab had a stuffed animal--a small white dog--on his side table. When suddenly, a mountain of pecha's fell on my head...
-after we'd banished the giant cockroach from under the bed, shooed the gecko out the door and unsuccessfully tried to stalk the mosquitoe--we went to bed
-and the dums are drumming, and the army of kettle bearers surge in (in the temple, the monks are like so many bees going about their jobs--and birds take flight)

Goodbye To
-absolute "no's"
-colored laundry on the line
-cold bucket showers
-heat and sticky backs of limbs
-a dry tap
-bougainvillea and monks everywhere
-ants marching across the wall (carrying dead insects) to the windowsill
-to carrying buckets of water across the street, up to our rooftop hospital room
-slow everything

Goodbye India