Author: tjiskavw

all are embraced during Holi Festival and I wish it could be replicated around the planet. During the day, I was welcomed into homes, asked to join others for selfies,…

Holi is a Hindu festival held in spring and like the season, it is about new beginnings. People are encouraged to release inhibitions inherited by the past and start fresh…

As Shel Silverstein said, "Draw a crazy picture, write a nutty poem, sing a mumble-gumble song, whistle though your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'cross the kitchen floor, put something…

sweet souls at that!

residents of an apartment complex invited me to their party and join them for dancing and singing. I was given a milky drink with herbs and painted with more red.…

I hope to arrive at my death late, in love, and a little drunk.

no one is immune to celebration - even the coolest. Festivals are the great equalizer!

The colors of the Holi festival have multiple meanings - red symbolizes purity; green- vitality; blue- calm; yellow-pious. These guys were covering all the bases. They asked me to take…

my driver liked to graze while traveling so we made many stops at festive looking fruit stands like this one to buy snacks on our way to Jaipur