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Kunzang Drolma Longing to Awaken

Kunzang Drolma
Kunzang Drolma
Young, Arizona
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 11/18/2009
Last update : 10/20/2009
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About Me

  • I am Australian, and have been living in the wilderness of Northern Arizona for eight years, the first several on my own. I was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun by HH Penor Rinpoche of the Nyingma lineage in 2000.

Kunzang's Blog

  • journey

    October 20, 2009

    • words, ideas, thoughts arise and dissolve before i sit to write. i will write that, i imagine, but somehow the moment shifts,  time collapses and the paper bears no marki have returned from my past back to the present and discovered they are one and the same. my trip was more than, better than i could ever have anticipated. the days flowed seamlessly, there was love, joy, rain and sunshine, wind ...
  • Heimat

    September 5, 2009

    • Next Wednesday is lost in time for me. I leave this country on Tuesday evening and arrive some 13 hours later on Thursday morning in the city in which i was born, on a continent in which I have not set foot for nearly nine years.Probably not only Wednesday will disappear, as I re-orient myself to family and friends who are currently etched as memories in places and times that dissolved long ago. ...
  • heat

    July 22, 2009

    • Heat seeps under the door as you sleep, enters the cracks in the walls, permeates the pores of your skin.  It swaddles you in invisible rags that burn at their touch, constricting your breath; you are drowning in air that scalds your lungs as you sink.  Heat is a second skin, you feel it against your own; it clings tenaciously like a lost child who believes you are its mother, it will not ...
  • regrets

    July 12, 2009

    • As my mother lay dying, regret often filled the room. The "what ifs" and "wish I hads" emanated from a lifetime of a brilliant, beautiful woman who felt her potential was never realised. Thwarted at times by the men in her life - father refusing to allow her to be a doctor, husband not allowing her to learn to drive for many years, insisting she cook dinner even as she ...
  • Madelaine

    June 11, 2009

    • Nothing much to say. A lapse of inspiration? However, wanted to let all the kind people thinking of Maddie know that she seems to have pulled through whatever mysterious liver ailment had floored her. I haven't taken her back to be re-tested (still paying off the last bill!!), but she is her old, energetic, hilarious, sweet self.But the fact she has heartworm weighs heavily; her heart is enlarged ...

Comments I've Written

  • That is a sweet story

    - as good as a dose of chocolate! Hope the weather calms down!
  • thanks Jodi

    i could never imagined it being so very good, And recognising my 'australian-ness" ; who would have though the call of a bird could evoke so much.
  • ahhh

    what to say. your presence has been like a fixture, the familiar clock on the wall whose tick measures time, and then - suddenly - silence.
  • Have fun!

    That sounds like a real treat.
  • there is no consolation

    for the loss of someone you love. But you have beautifully conveyed his love, his life and his passionate presence in the world, and shared that with strangers.

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