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...sunglasses. Therefore, my return has been fraught with a pain not felt by most Harvardians who study abroad over the summer. Many of them spend time in a foreign land by building automated sewage systems out of discarded lead pipes, living in burlap huts, and showering with a hollow gourd. These poor souls inevitably suffer from severe culture shock when they re-enter the United States. They find it materialistic and complain about the sheer surplus of caramel macchiatos. This is not what happened to me when I returned from Bella Italia. If I did experience any culture shock...
...waiting for a Mass. Ave. traffic light to change. After politely refusing two homeless persons’ solicitations, I occupied myself with the conversation next to me. “I love that music!” said one girl, gesturing to that ubiquitous street musician who plays a gourd attached to a string. “It’s pretty soulful,” her companion agreed.“I kind of wish we could hear more music like that, instead of that stupid stuff on the radio,” said the first one, swishing...
...Traditional crafts, storytelling and painting are on show, as well as over 1,500 performers in the women's elegant southern buckskin dance and the men's more strenuous war dance. More than 20,000 Indians and tourists attend to watch elders conduct rites?in the understated yet powerful gourd dance, men pay tribute to the warrior spirit by shaking rattles and lifting their heels to a hypnotic drumbeat. "They're not just performing for the crowd, but conducting ancient rituals," says Connie Hart Yellowman, director of the Red Earth Festival. "It's a time to socialize for Native Americans...
...head. Life was to be savored. "Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples," as novelist Asai Ryoi wrote in 1661, "singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating like a gourd, floating along with the river current...
...says, "that I am still alive." He does stretching exercises along with a radio broadcast, then eats breakfast: whole-grain rice and miso soup with vegetables. He puts in two hours of picking weeds in his 1,000-sq.-ft. field, whose crops are goya--a variety of bitter gourd--a reddish-purple sweet potato called imo, and okra. A fellow has to make a living, so Toguchi buys rice and meat with the profits from his produce...