I paid a long overdue visit to the arts rehabilitation centre today; sadly I have been distracted recently by working visits to India and the like. But it was good to find morale so high in both students and teachers. Ceramicist Alex Hunter has been replaced by local potter Hari Govinda Prajapati (Hari Potter?) who is a leading light within the Kathmandu ceramics scene, so that has been a good catch for us. Rebecca Hawkins remains full of enthusiasm a couple of months into her attachment and her regret at having to leave us at the end of the month is quite tangible. She has been really taken with the whole enterprise and told me today of how amazed she had been at the transformation in the students' demeanours even over a few weeks. To me this seems to be an infinitely more successful approach to managing troubled min
ds than bringing in a troop of counsellors.
I took this photograph this morning of a Grey-backed shrike sitting in the bush outside my office window. It's not uncommon in this part of Nepal but it's a quite beautiful bird, often heard (it has a distinctive shreek) before it is seen. It's beautiful enough for us to have translated it into mosaic in the past.
ds than bringing in a troop of counsellors.
