Category: Peru

Cultural Exchange, Interbeing, journey, Peru, Presencing

Postcards from Pisac, Peru-An on-going visual and descriptive diary of my interactions with the people and places in and around Pisac

– 10/19/15~Snapshot: I meet an old man with gnarled feet and few teeth on the river path. “Buenos dias; como estas?”, I say. He tells me he’s very tired and won’t have a bed until tomorrow night. I sympathize and say, “lo siento”. He offers me some soda from his 2 liter bottle of Oro, an Inka Cola knock-off, the color of Mountain Dew   … Continue reading Postcards from Pisac, Peru-An on-going visual and descriptive diary of my interactions with the people and places in and around Pisac

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Ayni - Reciprocity, Cultural Exchange, mindfulness practice, Peru

How Do You Flow Your Current, see? Spending Money as a Mindfulness Practice and Act of Lovingkindness

Google Translate.  It’s a great help to a new to a Spanish-speaking-country-but-not-so-fluent-Spanish-speaker such as myself.  But it doesn’t always get translation correct.   Case in point-  Google translated Soles, the local currency here as, “suns”.  At first I thought was a pretty funny error.  But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it, as a concept and as a mindfulness practice– think about … Continue reading How Do You Flow Your Current, see? Spending Money as a Mindfulness Practice and Act of Lovingkindness

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Cultural Exchange, journey, Peru

My Unexpected Healing Experience at the Fiesta de Virgen del Rosario

Yesterday, I went to Taray, to see the Fiesta of the Virgin of Rosario, who is their patron saint (and an incarnation of the Virgin Mary), and this, their annual big festival. I thought it would be interesting from a cultural perspective, but was not prepared for it to be such an emotional/spiritual experience, never having resonated with Christianity in general or Catholicism specifically, and … Continue reading My Unexpected Healing Experience at the Fiesta de Virgen del Rosario

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