School’s Out for a Photo Shoot
We awoke at 6 AM to the usual clamor of our kind, but clumsy kitchen boy fumbling with the tin cups and metal utensils on the thin metal table. While laying exhausted in bed, it seems as if he is dumping everything out of a bucket from a considerable height, and then scraping and slamming [...]
Quibla Bandi Boar Hunt
We are now in a small village in a mountainous region near northwestern Pakistan, an area called Quibla Bandi. We have commandeered a house on a hill overlooking a small lake, and the green sprawl of wheat fields and farmsteads below. There is something that is ultimately more peaceful about the countryside, and the sound [...]