at orgyen dorje den
ditto
charlie chan's
from the window in andy nguyen's--an amazing "thai buddhist diner" (as the guidebook said)--in sacramento
mocha at reno's oh-so-strange vegetarian pneumatic diner
wendover casino insanity
snowstorm driving!
so yes, there was more to this trip than just the rinchen terzod--but nothing else really mattered--i just liked these pictures i took.
k and i hadn't seen yangthang tulku for a few years, and had never received an empowerment from him--never mind dozens! truly wonderful.
in truth, the trip was like a reverse pilgrimage. everything went smoothly on the way there, but leaving...lots of obstacles! a $25 toll fine, crosssing the donner pass at midnight in a blizzard (visions of cannibals in our heads), and then snow and more snow! i think the mandala didn't want to let us go. and we certainly wished we didn't have to leave...
3 comments:
What lovely pictures! Sounds like a great trip (not so much the getting back, though!).
thanks kate! yeah, it was really special! so nice to get out of our normal routines for a few days...
Well hello dear jenn, I finally got to your blog again, its so nice to be on a non-rigid schedule. Nice little tid bits of your life for us to read -- you are a very talented writer and should definately be doing more of it. Your weather changes so fast there, one day snow, the next flowers. Your spring is so much earlier than ours, what a bonus. Off to do some cleaning - have a wonderful happy day!! Love, Mag
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