reed reunion

ok here is paul zinkin ...

as time is passing and sometimes when occasions becomes so much when every day becomes like a passing with so many experiences with so many chance meetings it becomes difficult to keep up..... i dont have the time to upload look at photots when from 630 in morning till 1230 atnite we are just intereaatcing and each interaction is like bringing up so much.... i am now in portland its almost 1 at nite.... am leaving to denvier tomorrow and wana lupload this inbetween chats with friends and kids keeping me up to date with great changes in lif e in india....... but i want to keep this as my memoriy of this trip

pix above is with paul zipkin...he was the cutest guy at my years at reed, and he is now at prof at dukes and will be coming to india to set up a college in india ... ..
and this my reminde r of the wonderful times we spet the memories you brought of these the discussions we had..... and our future associations... it si 1 at nite and i cant do it right now but its on record.........

ahere is suzie and me with my advisor in psychology at reed college dr william wies... we went o his house in portland and had a most wonderful lunch and lots of stories and warm memories... i had often been to this same house where thelma and bill siest were most gracious welcomers of us in their home... i shall try and puttheir comments up as comments ont his blog about our talks.... and as he said it ws wonderful to see what my students had done in the 40 years since we last met.

Ahin my nephew with vikram and nalini when they came to my talk at reed
ahin nalini me and the girl is darly, ahins girlfreind... they had come to portland for arlys sister graduation.... coming straight from airport for this
ahin and me............
pix have gone up and down..... suzie at the talk
nalini discussing something with darly and ahin after our talk
as usual mira making some dramatic point i hope;..... out discussion was entiteld humanaties from a non western perspective....reed is a liberal arts college which has a compulsory humanaties course in the first year which covers western civilisation.... our 40 minute presentation was on the need to expand this to cover non western civilisations..... the talk was well received.much applause much discussion


well sasha who has been complainig more pix...this should make her happy.... this is entering the reed reunion day 1 on wednesday 2nd the day am supposed to do talk... suzy and i will present together... so am in sari... here is janet neyberg with whom i stayed for 4 months in the summer of 67 with her family in lake oswego, sasha and ashi have been there....... and deedee another freindin our class the suzie.... behind is the students union
outside having tea and coffee at the alumni college

us at the talk...several pix of these ..






after the talk people around to see
having a drink evening after talk
suzie and i are staying at one of vikys empty flats just opposite his house.... nalini has 2 cats and suzy is dreadfully allergic, so we cannot stay there....... the view from this house and ciks is petacular.you c an see mount hood , the river........ this is morning sunrise.......... the last we saw of the sun for 5 days........... after this cloudy
reed is celebrating its 100 year in 2011 i think, and they are collecting class stories ... here is one evening session held after storm warnings were up, hail started falling, so people ran off... dark clouds...but then it cleared up and we came back... one story... there was a student who always was reading and one nite he went to the busstop outside read and was reading under the lampost...a cop car came and asked what he was doing, he said reading.... he was promptly picked up taken to the cop station.... the next night, hundreds of reedies were under street lights all over the city... apparantly it was reported all over, as reading shelley by moonlight
there was an open house which discused our topic, humanaties in a non western perspective... here i am making an announement of what we will discuss ... simultaneously a wine tasting going on where ex readies who are now involved in wines are showing off their wines
the discussion... more are involved but cant get in the pix... me in the centre leading the group.... the guy next to me is on the reed board ..... everyone totally in favour of an expanded course..............covering all civilisations
the woman next to me says she was in the dorm with me and i gave her a sari.... which she still has and would i show her how to wear it again.... next to her is another woman from our dorm, who also remembered me...she has been thought cancer and a rough time
at the class dinner meet this couple dick burnhart. my class who tandem byclyed from agra to mumbai to the world social forem 5 years ago..they give me a signed copy of their book..... am leaving this with viky to inspire ahin and all to come to india
suzy and me at the folk dancing after much wine
me dancing at folk dancing
the class photo...we hold a plate with a number in front of our face, our names written on the other side......return the plates then the pix is taken so they know who is who


suzy and me with pat mcmohan... he tells me that i took his picture for his senior thesis, and he often takes it out and looks at it to reflect on himself........ suzie and i go to library to see this...all our thesis are not available since they have been taken and not returned...yeh that means someone liked it.... next day we go to the archives get copies of our theses...i see the pix...and finally know who he is ... he is into buddhism, and came to india 2 years ago and went mainly to mathura....
me showing how to wear sari

suzie and my camping trip in olympic national park

landed in seattle and met my oldest freind suzie with whom i had dropped out when i was 18 and travelled all around the US and canada in our volkswagen... it is like coming home.... there is like an instant connection and we are talking hugging all the time

the first day we go and have lunch with the rnowned poet gary snyder a poet of the wilderness, who lives in a 100 ace farm in california....... in the evening we go to his poetry reading....2000 people who have paid money to hear him...he dedicates the evening to ron, suzies husband who has just died of cancer and to suzie......very touching.............

next day suzie goes to hear amma...........oh well ... many emericans around for the husgging saint.

next day suzie and i pack up and are out of thehouse for our drivingholiday...we drive an hour take a ferry drive to her aunt and uncles house on whitby island, amazind place, another drive, another ferry and to the camp ground.... we have brown rice and lamb which suie has cooked in seattle and go to the tent to sleep......

boy was it cold........... i tell suzie lets leave for the beach house..i dont think i will survive another nite in the tent

anyway we first walk down to the worlds largest sandspit come back and start our drive..... its a long drive so we stop at aother by a lake which is not so cold.. meet many nice guys who help us put up the tent go out for a hot meal, and spend the nite next to the lake............ beautiful

next day we go the worlds older spruce tree 1000 years old....... and drive down the coast about 100 miles to vikys house..........so lovely to be watm... good schotch a loving brother and dearest freind what more does one want. a nite of dancing with suzie...she is such an amazing dancer combining tai chi and i dont know what else................

gud fun


having dinner at the lodge in the second place we camped...with us is a freind rob whom we met whilst driving down... he called us his two sistersand told everyone that the family has adopted all these children from different places
sunset over the lake at the lodge where we ate
suzie reclining on the tree on the trail
at the lake where we were driving through
at the camp fire tring to make tea at the campsite.boy it was freezing at nite rain but suzie got a fire going
suzie in meditation i think, or is it sleep on the beach in front of vikys house
viky , my brother putting up a kite at the beach at his house
me in front of the twin rocks at vikys seaside place
suzie working on our presentation for reed ..finally
suzies one match fire at the campgorund
putting up the tent
suzies uncle, age 81, who ives on whitby island in washington showing me the snow mountains across the honeymoon bay on his nikon telescope
on the ferry across to whitby island ... see the snow clad mountain which is mount baker
suzie and me on the ferry ....... photos are all blurred ...something seems to be wrong with my lens

the flight from paris to seattle

the flight from paris took off at 1030 am . thankfully got a window seat
we were flying back in time landing in seatlle after a ten hour flight at 1130 in the morning so it was daylight all the way
it was the most amazing flight ... we flew over greenland........for two hours we flew over sheets sheets sheets of flat snow with nountains often peaking out
then blue deep blue sea
looking in the distance it seems like there is land and is it a beach .such a clear cut of land it seems ...but tits snow..........
pix cant capture the expanse so white as far as you can see
sometimes it seems that there is ince over lots of water
when there are breaks in the snow you wander is it water?
is the white clouds?

sitting next to a young ukrainian who is going to alaska to work in a restaurant the flight costs him 1400 dollar he has paid 1000 dollars for the work contract.he will work 2 jobs a day at 10 dollars an hour, rents a place of 200 dollars and will make back his expenses and also some more for his education..he is studying engineering
we have a gud time cheering to f=champagne then red wine then white

whilst watching out have movies going on ....... watched the curious case of bengamin button, woody allen scoop, last chance harvey, christina goes to barcelona......... cant see the end of that ..flight is landing

its been so great to meet suzie........ her daughter rachel comes for dinner.suzie has the diary we had kept during our trip.in 1967.we had dopped out of college when i was 17 and drove from protland to montreal to new yord new orleans to new mexico.... at places it is faded out the parts that went into the water... her daughter reads the short descriptions on each day and we relive our adventures....much laughter......... next day we went to lunch with the poet gary
snyder.evening his poetry reading with 2000 people paying to hear him. he dedicates his reading to ron and suzy. rons book has come to suzy the day before, the one he finished proof reading on his bed ........... he died with suzy and his two kids holding his hand......... in the house where we are......... its amazing to me that suzie and ron are so respected for the work they have done in linguistics...........

we had calvados apple brandy a speciality from brittany france to celebrate......

off tomorrow to theolymic national park camping

pix at brittany at maharaj saptah

my room mate mangala from italy she made lovely pasta and we went for lovely walks on the beach and talked of life advaita philosophy
maharaj and siddharameshwar maharaj after the puja my garland on nissaradatta maharaj what flowers
the garland i made
us dancing
the samadhi >>> it says I am always with you.lawrences room looks out at this us all doing bhajans behind

a close upof the samadhi >> the calligraphy book i had made for lawrence on the left side with a flower
the samadhi with thegold kalash which had been made in front
puja time at samadhi the sea behind
yours truely in front of the flowers for the puja
the green house from which we went to pluck as many roses we want...... allunder the white thread cld be taken
we tied baskets around us and walked down collecting roses in it
roses roses roses
wow windmills onthe train ride to quimper in brittany

pix from paris

andre breton museum of modern art
outdorr market at bastille
well indians have reached there also
the bastille
montemarte
floe in the gardens
recycling glass in paris
andre bretons surrealis painting in the museum of modern art
painters on the street at montmarte
moulin rouge theatre..... cost of a show was 90 euros..... 4000 rs so was happy with the outside and seeing the pics outside
me at the same flower garden
a stained glass window at notre dam
now you know what this is
the famous pyrimid in front of the louvre......... remember da vinci code
floe andme at the cafe after having coffee