The everyday life of a busy nun (I made her wear a vanilla robe and a headpiece from the Apachii Goddess Shop): the work at the mill, the prayers, helping sick people in the monastery's apothecary. Share 7 comments Pages 1 Dennywood member 164 kudos 15 March 2025, 9:25PM ...
David Briggs
Eat in as much as possible to save money.Check! In most places, you can purchase groceries in local markets or stores and eat at home with substantial savings. We found a small grocery store about a fifteen-minute walk away from our apartment. Going to a local store is part of the fun...
he rests in the dormitory. It is summer, but a heater is still needed at such a high altitude. Modern technology, even something as simple as an electric heater, is still seen as novelty in the monastery.
As of Thursday, a total of 5,152 makeshift board houses had been built on resettlement sites across the region's affected areas. The Dzongbu Nunnery is a county-level cultural relic protection site in Ganden Village, and Zimgag Chodewo Monastery in the neighboring village of Zimgag is a re...
After graduating in 1972, she worked as an assistant in the Gulfport offices of Dr. Daniel Conwill, III, and made plans to become a nun. These plans changed when she encountered Thomas Wiltz of Biloxi and his vintage Ford Mustang. The two married in 1974 and had two children, Elizabeth...
As soon as I reached my hotel in Kalpa, a cute husky came to visit. We had so much fun. He returned to his home after a while. Kalpa village and fort in the dead of the night.A Husky dog in Kalpa After staying in Kalpa for a few days, I felt a strong desire to visit Spiti...
Oh gosh, all these self exorcism after a conversation with someone whom I asked to be shared a secret with. When a secret is shared enough of times, it no longer stays as something that locks us in. Of course, it’s never an end state as new secrets develop along the course of lif...
Home in this sense seems to point to one’s identity, at the deepest level. Thus we are all searching for a ” home “, which eludes most of us. In a sense, his donkey served as a symbol for Nasruddin’s ” true ” self. This is clear in the anecdote, where he loses the donk...
I jotted down a few aspects that have encouraged and helped me along my path. The things inside me, the things of Heaven and the things in the body of Christ that remind me of who I am as a writer- and that my gift, YOUR gift, is not for you alone. It’s always for another,...