Hughie walks a tiger at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanburi province, Thailand 06

Hughie/Sonam Angchuk/Chang Ke

 

The clouds above us join and separate
The wind in the courtyard arrives and returns
Life is like that so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?

Lu Yu

content on this site

web dev a portfolio of my web work. designs and hosting using my own
MagpieCMS content management system
pictures stuff from my history, circus, Buddhist pilgrimage, scuba
poems

mostly in haiku / haibun style, heavily influenced by Zen.
i usually wait until an experience rolls around inside for a while
and then bubble to the surface. then my task is to take
anything extra away until I have the 'aha' feeling.

'sunshine and shadow' is a collection of sundry writings

'mahabodhi moonlight' was written in Ladakh, India, Nepal and Thailand from '05 to '06

First Burn
4 chapters of sci-fi written phonetically (fonetiklee)
guitarclassical pieces and my own compositions
Carroll Archive
my family's site with many pictures and a genealogical tree
mani stones

show and tell about my love affair with Avolokiteshvara's mantra 'om mani padme hum'. i learned to carve them in Ladakh