Furniture on the Terrace

It's amazing how soon things go back to normal. The summer in India seems an eon away now. I'm still working with the material I collected there so I do think about it every day. A few weeks ago I went to Königswinter in Germany to participate in the XI International Seminar on Tibetan Studies. But I missed my panel. Subramanya got a scholarship in the last minute and came as well. In my absence he had to do a straight read while Geoff took care of the demographic part. There were quite a few people from TAR there and we had some good parties.

We cleared out the ground floor and sanded the floors there. All the furniture had to go outside on the terrace. The first week it rained and I had to get up at night to safeguard it. But this week the weather has been sunny. Tomorrow the floors are fixed and we can start bring ing everything inside again.