Archive for 'Cuzco'
Remind My Soul: Love, Shamans, In/Dependency, Planets
A few airports and bad plane meals ago, I was in Cuzco, Peru, with two friends, and we stumbled upon a shaman. Well, that’s not actually what happened. What happened was that we were playing the souvenir-hungry tourists and walking into every door with shiny things on the other side, and we walked into this [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2007 under Akrobatik, American, Angel Herrera, Cusco, Cuzco, Gloria Steinem, Incan, John Gray, Men are From Mars, Peru, Ph.D., Shamanic, Women are From Venus, addiction, airport, akka'ala, ancestor, antepasados, aya'ala, bell hooks, bicycle, bisexual, boa, buddhism, buddhist, catholic, ceremonial, chakra, chemistry, clothing, co-dependence, coca, coca leaf, coca leaves, communion, condor, dependence, dependency, dichotomy, earrings, fish, food, forgiveness, gender, gender dynamics, growth, handmade, heart, heterosexual, higher world, homosexual, honesty, indigenous, intimacy, love, makka'ala, mars, matrimonial, monogamy, mysticism, one night stand, partnership, physical love, pipe, plane, polyamory, pre-Christian, pre-Incan, puma, relationship, relationships, remind my soul, romance, romantic, rubber bands, self awareness, self-advocacy, self-identification, serial monogamist, serial monogamy, sex, sex positive, sexual, sexual communion, shaman, shamans, shame, shameless, single, skepticism, soul, souvenir, space, spiritual, spirituality, sweater, theology, tourist, tourists, underworld, universe, venus, virgin, virgin/whore dichotomy, whore, wiphala, world.
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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