Friday, September 3, 2010

alas. along. alone. alove. the...

the land of the valley is being covered and traduced one way or another these days.

there's some excessive, ruinous 'plotting' up here across from where nick and kerry lived, next to karma and pia, and past us on the road to tokha.

fortunately, it's pretty quiet on our immediate periphery.

one bureaucrat built a home in our way back but that's where i planted the 'dhungri' bamboo (nepal's biggest) that christopher and i brought back from charikot my last year at save (four years ago... It's among the fattest/tallest bamboo we have, so his three story home has disappeared behind lush, big bamboo leaves above a rock garden that i've been digging out the past few months on the w/end.

so, all's good with the wide open, forested view of the 8,000' shivapuri ridge line from the backyard.

but, eyes wide open, we all know, it's coming, it's comin' and it ain't stopping...

the ancient, once sacred valley is filling up with habitation and housing well before the proposed, promised federal republic of nepal can spread the wealth and construction out to future provincial capitals around the country.

but it's late, very late for the beauty of this place.

alas. along. alone. alove. the...

as joyce wrote a long time ago about his beloved, bespoiled, emerald land...

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