Lovely journey! What a lovely blog entry, and beautiful photos...
A note re: your Apache comment--"sunwise" is clockwise, the way the sun shining through the skylight moves around the ger during the course of a day. It is also the way that people are traditionally supposed to move around ger and also around the Navajo hogan, sweat lodge and tipi. When one moves around the ao'bao in a counter clockwise direction it is significant because it is opposite the normal sunwise movement. (In shamanic practice, one movement winds energy up or in, and the other unwinds the energy.)
Thanks again for your beautiful piece. May you continue to find yourself ever more at home in China,
becky kemery
Author of "YURTS: Living in the Round"
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I love the contemplative nature of this entry. Every subset of society seems to have these upper crustys and I find their attitude and oblivion quite frustrating too- if they just opened their eyes and really saw the world and not just their own tiny microcosm they would understand that this entitlement they feel is baseless. I should probably stop since I appear to be climbing towards my soapbox. But great reflections dude.
I love Qing Ming because i'll get one day off ·^o^·.
So nice to see you here.
How is the sandstorm in north china these days? i hope it didn't get that bad.
I lived in Huhehaote, Inner Mongolia - "The Blue City" - for 13 months. I now live in my home state in the USA, where I have reconnected with my romantic interest; where I am working to make a little money; and where I am dreaming of travelling again, writing a book, and/or going to graduate school in Chinese Language or Asian Studies.
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Lovely journey!
What a lovely blog entry, and beautiful photos... A note re: your Apache comment--"sunwise" is clockwise, the way the sun shining through the skylight moves around the ger during the course of a day. It is also the way that people are traditionally supposed to move around ger and also around the Navajo hogan, sweat lodge and tipi. When one moves around the ao'bao in a counter clockwise direction it is significant because it is opposite the normal sunwise movement. (In shamanic practice, one movement winds energy up or in, and the other unwinds the energy.) Thanks again for your beautiful piece. May you continue to find yourself ever more at home in China, becky kemery Author of "YURTS: Living in the Round" www.yurtinfo.org "Yurtlady" on facebook