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Dear Sugata The full moon is rising on the roof top of the Imperial Hotel, Thamel. Did I tell you we have our old rooms, with Gunilla sleeping in your room? Like you she enjoys sitting out the sun on the flower potted terrace. She has your long legs! Our day is altogether peaceful. You… Continue reading Kathmandu: Shiva Puri, Pathupathi, Garden of Dreams

Dear Sugata The Chhairo day breaks with a coffee with Fr Greg, who I have grown to love for his candid responses to my emails from Norway, cutting to the quick with his understanding of you and affirming and acknowledging my role, which I needed to hear at the time of shifting ice flows. Fr… Continue reading Kathmandu: Chhairo

16th April Dear Sugata Gunilla, you daughter, arrived exhibiting commendable energy keen for a beer her first evening landing.  She began recalling not your story but the previous time she was here in 1981 with her husband. With your attention to material detail she brings with her a 1980 map of Kathmandu (published by non… Continue reading Kathmandu: Gunnilla arrives

Dear Bärbel, Haimo and the dictionary Well, here we are almost a year on. Where are you? I am in Kathmandu, awaiting Gunilla, who arrives this evening. I have with me some of Sugata's ashes, and hope to find a resting place for them and this story, in this land he brought me to, nearly… Continue reading 15/4/2008 email to Barbel, Hamio and Dictionary

  Dear Sugata   I am returning to Kathmandu, awaiting Gunilla, your daughter. I have with me the last of your ashes (saved from the mice who I thought had eaten them in my caravan!), and hope to find a resting place for them and this story, in this land you brought me to, nearly… Continue reading Kathmandu April 2008 with Sugata’s ashes