![]() ![]() We in the west are so very fortunate with our educational opportunities - even if college does cost a king's ransom these days, it is possible. He would like to get a student visa to study more in Japan, but so far no luck. ![]() He's very sharp - currently he's reading "The Tao of Physics" - and is obviously understanding it from the conversations we have. The youngest son, who had just been born when I trekked up to Muktinath, is the waiter in the dining room. The older son is the one who brings me my "bed tea" each morning around 6:45. There's a daughter, who has a darling 2 year old of her own, who is busy in the kitchen with her mom at meal times. Or more accurately, his wife actually runs the guest house with the help of their children. Whenever I arrive back here, I greet them with a "Toshi Dili" ("Good Fortune" - the modern Tibetan greeting). I see him sitting on the porch of their living quarters at the back of the guest house most of the time, prayer wheel steadily turning. It's a magical, barren spot, high on the backside of the Annapurna Massif, where there is a spring where fire and water both come out of the earth into the air. She and her husband come from Muktinath in Mustang province, an area I visited when I went trekking in 1980. She seems to be very sweet and very strong. I hear her gravelly voice over all the other human sounds of the area. The matriarch of the family and strongest personality is the granny. ![]() Like all guest houses I have ever stayed at in Nepal, this one is run by the family that owns it. ![]()
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