Last night I saw the movie Eat, Pray, Love, based on the Elizabeth Gilbert book. At first, this had been a film that was a definite ‘yes’ on my list of films “to see”, and then I read some pretty relevant criticisms of the film and thought, maybe not. When I was living in Sweden [...]
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
3 Aug
Week #4 in the Ashram: Escapes and Exams
Shortly after writing the week 3 post of my Ashram experiences, Dylan arrived at the Ashram and we escaped early Saturday morning to attend a dear friend’s wedding in Haliburton, Ontario. Lots of driving, little sleep, a sip of wine, black tea and sugar (all things I had not been exposed to for 3 weeks) [...]
23 Jul
Week 3 of Ashram Life
This week started off with a huge Hindhu festival called Kavadi. We were expecting 20,000 people to attend, but we think the numbers were closer to 10,000 and it wasn’t as crazy as we thought it would be. However, there was definitely still some crazy things, like the hooks in this man’s back:There are strings [...]
