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Monthly Archives: February 2007

escaping Manila

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Climbing up the top of the mountainside on the back of the motorcycle holding onto uncle J’s waist. The air is vibrant and wonderfully fresh. We ride through a rainfall briefly, but in the heat the rain is refreshing and we weave in and out of tricycles and jeepneys full of people staring back or [...]

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Orthodox Priests in Bulgaria

Monday, February 12, 2007

Weirdly enough, all of the Orthodox priests I saw in Bulgaria were extremely tall and handsome. I don’t think it was just because they were wearing all black, but the height and the length of their robes striding around the monasteries was quite an elegant thing to watch.

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Heat Wave

Sunday, February 11, 2007

It was January, and there was no snow on the ground. The ski chalets, bought up quickly by British families, looked sad and bare on the black, muddy landscape. After the huge car accident, the translator was called in by the police. She was a middle-aged woman with dark circles under her eyes; thin, chic, [...]

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orthodoxy in Bulgaria

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

In Bulgaria relatives put up announcements of the death of loved ones on certain anniversaries. The numbers are very symbolic; someone told me that you have to do it three or four times in the first month, then every few months, then every few years. I have lost the notes that tell me what the [...]

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bulgaria road trip

Sunday, February 4, 2007
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