The news came yesterday with a jolt as sudden as the tectonic shifts thrusting earthly plates under and over, up and down. These are the same plates and force that created The Himalayas over millions of years. This time, the world bears witness and tears, awed once again by nature's power and bereft at man's ever-present vulnerability.
Friends in Kathmandu are fine, but many aren't. News trickles in as the death toll advances. Treasures are lost and yet, hope somehow is found amongst the ruins. Suffering and survival. Twins born of the human spirit. Buddhism was also born in these mountains, offering a path out of the suffering in the Wheel of Life, which again is being tested on an enormous scale.
My thoughts are held in these mountains and with these people, in this frozen moment of heartbreak.
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