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: Goddag Letter #10, Pondicherry, 28 Dec - 09 Jan New Year’s was amazing. Svaram gave a wonderful performance at the Matrimandir, which I attended with friends I had made over the past weeks in …

: Unearth Kāla #5, Arikamedu an Indo-Roman Trading Port? 
After my workday today, I went on my bicycle to Arikamedu. I’d been told this was the famous Indo-Roman port on the east coast. In the 1940s, …

: Goddag Letter #9, Chinese Calligraphy and Bone Inscriptions , 2 Jan Hei, god dag, In the fall of 2018, I was sitting in an atelier tucked away in one of the small alleyways of Suzhou, China. There, I calligraphed a …

: Goddag Letter #8, 22 - 28 December, Cow Escape, Egg Explosion, and Tamil Genius? I was cycling down Auroville when suddenly a cow jumped out of a home. She was dragging a long rope with her, which had a log and branches attached to …

: Unearth Kāla #4, Egypt’s City of the Horizon and India’s City of Dawn

 The similarities of sun worship, internationalism, and earth religion between the ancient Egyptian Akhet-Aten and Auroville have fueled speculation …

: Peace Pasture #2, Sadhana Forest For this week’s Peace Pasture Series, I visited a food forest and reforestation community called Sadhana Forest. While it shares some aspects with …

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Goddag Letter #7, from the "City of Dawn": Solitude Farm, Dehashakti, and Tamil Class Hei, god dag, A weekly update. This week I mostly spent time in the archives at Auroville. The most surprising find was about Sri Surendra Nath …

: Unearth Kāla #3, The “Planetary History” of the Krishna-Prometheus Project In Unearth Kāla I uncover dead time. Kāla, or time, personifies the force destroying all things. This series of letters is there to remember them. …

: Goddag Letter, 14 December, Auroville Weekend Hei, god dag! Just a small update on the last three days. I had been in Chennai at the end of this week to walk through the Theosophical Society in …

: Peace Pastures #1 Peace Pastures #1 This peace pasture report is part of a series where I go by farms that I buy animal produce from. This blog series started because I …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, Madurai and Rameswaram, 2 December 2025 With all the good memories of Hamilton still in my head I was dropped off by Siobhan early morning for a long journey to Madurai. After Irish set …

: Weekly Update Hamilton, 20-25 November 2025 Hei, god dag, Personal update, 20–25 November 2025 Writing these notes on my way from Toronto to Madurai… The last days were truly some of the warmest …

: Auroville Forest Photos Hei, god dag, Here is a small photo update. These were taken in the maze of pathways in and around Auroville forest. A forest I traverse every day to …

: The Fri Peace Odyssey and The Aurobindo Ashram, History Foundling #2 Hei, god dag, History Foundling #2. 05.12.2025
On my third day in the Auroville archives, as I was leafing through the World Union journals, I came …

: Queen Huh (?) Memorial Park, Historical Foundling #1 Hei, god dag, 
This is my first historical “foundling”. In these posts I share notes on things I find out about a place, person, or event that …

: The first goddag letter and the gregarious flowering of the Pigeon Orchid! Hei, god dag! 
In the first two months of archival work I’ve been lucky to meet so many interesting characters and new places. And, since close-ones …

: Unearth Kāla #2, The Fri Peace Odyssey and The Aurobindo Ashram Hei, god dag, History Foundling #2, 05.12.2025
On my third day in the Auroville archives, as I was leafing through the World Union journals, I came …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, Madurai and Rameswaram, 2 December 2025 With all the good memories of Hamilton still in my head I was dropped off by Siobhan early morning for a long journey to Madurai. After Irish set …

: Goddag letter, 25 November 2025 God dag, Writing these notes on my way from Toronto to Madurai… The last days were truly some of the warmest and most welcoming travel days! Very …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, Peace History Society and Swarthmore, 16 November “It’s better if you go to the doctor!” Henrike insisted, as she was preparing to present her conference talk, “A Missing African Peace?”, at the Peace …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, Sabarmati and Nisargopchar Ashram As I stepped into the old yellow house of the Mehtas, I immediately felt part of a family. In the heart of Ahmedabad lives this welcoming and upbeat …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, Diwali Days, 26 October 2025 My long Diwali celebrations of 2025 had been some of the most memorable and spontaneous days in a while. I believe Diwali started early for me, on the …

: Unearth Kāla #1 Queen Huh (?) Memorial Park Hei, god dag, 
This is my first Unearth Kāla Post. I called it Unearth Kāla, because Kāla is a sanskrit term meaning “death” or “time” and I am …

: Backlog Goddag Letter, 18 October 2025, Arogya Mandir God dag! A letter from 18 October 2025: “The next stop, I am getting off of this train - no matter what!” I said, fully determined. Abhishek glanced …