Today’s Challenge: Ikat & Non-Attachment
Today, I gave away what were supposed to become my new favorite pair of pants. Last week, we’d traveled through Kochi, home of fantastic fabrics and speedy tailors. I spied […]
Category Archives: Do [Challenges]
Today’s Challenge: An Ode to Overload and Underload
After two weeks on the road, through dusty villages and past at least a few million people, a few thousand cows and maybe a hundred odd goats, we’ve finally settled […]
Today’s Challenge: The Freedom of Opposite Day
When I was a kid, I loved to pretend it was Opposite Day (or “not opposite night” as I called it). I loved the laughter from misunderstandings, the competition of […]
The Last Two Days’ Challenges: Singing Birds A-Flock
“If the heart stays a green tree, singing birds will flock,” a young salesman told me last night, in his friend’s fabric shop in Thekkady. Over the past two days, […]
Today’s Challenge: New Friends and Moments of Zen
It’s amazing what one conversation with two new people can unlock. At our homestay, we met two lovely Brazilian girls, who are traveling through Kerala, to a Holi festival and […]
Today’s Challenge: Putting My Trip To Verse
Another great challenge from Mike… Here’s my note home to my parents turned into a 24 line verse, edited over an amazing cup of coffee at a home stay in […]
Today’s Challenge: Beatrix, Bernadette and the Quest for Magic Goat Milk
Great challenge to write our day as a children’s book from Lauren Furgason… Clearly, Blair and I had fun with this on our long drive through the Tamil Nadu countryside […]
Today’s Challenge(s): Adopting A Wild Animal Can Be Simple
I’m writing this post from a commune in Pondicherry. As I reflect on today’s challenge(s) and how they’ve come to fruition in unexpected and interconnected ways in the past 12 […]
Today’s Challenge: Family Glue Keeps Love True
After hours of travel, we arrived in the beachy town of Mamalapuram, where cows vye with motorbikes and trucks for road space, and colorful boats are beached on the sand […]
Today’s Challenge: Danger Is A Verb, Not An Activity
This morning’s challenge seemed fit for a trip mid-point or a zen location, circumstances where I imagine I would have found my sabbatical groove, not for my first 48 hours […]
The Flip Files: Flip Any Day Into An Adventure 