By the By: Some Old Stuff

Just some old pics from 2012: Drakensberg South Africa 

What I love about travelling is that it opens up a space not just outside but within you. Just look at these pictures and look at the long, barren roads. No traffic. Imagine the silence you absorb from that. And imagine how it feels to be a spec in this vastness, something we forget in the business of life, when we see too much around....that we see cannot see too far. 

Often one can see a man or a woman walking on these roads.  while it is possible that a friend dropped them midway it is also true that people are used to walking far.  

I remember how in Botswana, my mostswana friends used to say, 'You know we laugh at white people, what is this 'walk' they talk about.  We walk for a purpose.  Not just 'walk'.  It is always towards something!!'

All the ideas of development and advancement apart, walking is a form of meditation. 

Here we are back in town or close to...and the silence inside of us starts to break up.......