full of eucalyptus leaves

from esalen to atlanta

"what you are looking for is what is looking"

st. francis

lulu in ganga ma

lulu is taken from alight's flickr page, and the following william stafford poem as well, "climbing along the river".

willows never forget how it feels to be young

do you remember where you came from? gravel remembers
even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean

exactly at midnight yesterday sighs away

what i believe is, all animals have one soul
over the land they love they crisscross forever

bassets of india

bassets in goa?! surfing. this is lulu, taken from alight's flickr page.

also, i found preeti narayanan, she's a basset breeder in bangalore.

"i was seven when i decided that i was going to have a home filled with dogs. everyone thought it was very amusing. my parents even bought me a dog figuring it would take care of it. hmmm...don't think it did. we are a family of 27! raj, my daughter - tapasya, our 24 dogs and myself. our crowded little home is in suburban bangalore and we are fortunate to have understanding neighbors who don't have a fit evey time the dogs decide to do a rendition of 'who let the dog's out'! there are no kennels in our house and all our dogs live together. i also board dogs and guess what they too live with my dogs while they are here!" omg.

www.wintershillbassets.com

coconut lions in mysore

the subcontinent coconut lion has a fat nose to help it smell distant coconuts. i was not going to mention it as they are treasured and not really to be talked about, like yoga:) but now that i've drunk cobra blood i'm told i will smell different to the coconut lions and they will not mind me. they are pretty grouchy and dangerous by all accounts. powerful jaws that can open coconuts and feisty dispositions keep people away even though the lions are only about the size of a koala bear. the 27th pasha of ponchigorom wrote a great booklet about the lions but it's out of print and he's dead. and krishnamacharya's patron, and by way guruji's, s.a.s. wodeyar, maharaja of mysore, is said to have had some in the mysore palace gardens. they're still around southern india and a big part of my wanting to go there is just to see one.

chitta meme, google your name plus "needs" and see what comes up

eeyore needs prozac.
eeyore needs a zoloft.
eeyore needs a hug.
eeyore needs to kill himself. ?!
eeyore needs a bumblebee duvet cover. (chitta!)

i also googled my other self to see if this could get better.

robbie needs to collect 5 different girls throughout woods, desert and ice.
robbie needs your help.
robbie needs rehab.
robbie needs good manors. [thanks, you moreon]
robbie needs therapy.
robbie needs a gf.
robbie needs to find an easier way to date.

bangalore golf club

i'm already thinking about mysore and all the troubles i will cause there. i wonder if golf is ok on a moon day? i love the idea of bangalore gc's emblem, the bangalore crow. seems the course doesn't need hazards. it has the bangalore crow, a big bird that picks up and flies away with players' balls from the fairways thinking they're eggs, and when they realize they're not they drop them from on high. who knows where? maybe they land with the FUR! or in the hole. i vote this as the best course in the world. i am not bringing Big Pinkie with me, though. Big Pinkie is my driver and she has betrayed me for the last time. if norman allen won't let me bring my mat to mysore Big Pinkie can't come either!