I haven't been able to bring myself to write here for some time now--too immersed in life to be able to enter this space. The summer has come, and almost gone--the second summer I didn't feel the cold New England sea.

Still, we jumped into the icy waterfall pool in our underwear, there in the woods. We've slept in the hammock under the stars. We've gorged on tomato pie, berries, cucumbers, corn. I've read the beautiful Bitter in the Mouth and lived in a tiny tent in a forest in upstate New York.

Now, we are off to see Sakya Trizin in Vancouver, then on to India and Nepal...