mirasforeigntrip

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.........

here 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

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