I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.
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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
The Man Within My Head
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
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