The climate of Seattle seems to have settled over central Kentucky. Local weather forecasters have stopped joking about the perpetual rain, and have begun making resigned pronouncements. April was the wettest ever recorded here. Since February, we’ve had only a few three-day stretches of sunshine, widely separated by weeks of downpour. In a blinding rain last Saturday, I persuaded
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Back in Shigatze, we went to a Tibetan market near the entrance to Tashilhunpo. This was a festival market, for which the streets had been closed. Horse traffic was permitted, however, and riders with shopping bags across their saddles trotted briskly up the street as heavy, horse-drawn fruit carts ground down it. The dozens of tiny bells sewn to collars
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What if you suddenly remembered something terrible you’d done years ago, but when you confessed it, perhaps earnestly believing that the truth would set you free, no one believed you, or could even agree on the pertinent facts? Who is your worst false friend? A lover who appears to adore you, but prefers the quiet status quo to a potentially
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