Travel safe, Amy-La

Resting by a Shiva shrine.

After a busy day of long goodbyes and parting cups of chai, Nurse Amy-La (as she is called by her Tibetan patients) left for Boston today in the good company of some Tong-Len volunteers. The Indian mother with the bandaged leg, the old guru with an uncomfortable itch, the Tibetan nuns with high blood pressure, the boy with Polio and everyone else in between including me, have all been healed by her strict regimen of medical care and sillyness. Kashmiri Law, gentleman of Charan, told her today, "I like you, you know how to laugh. We will miss you," followed by the question everyone always asks,

"...when will you come back?"