Getting the job done: Jua Kali
Finally got the east screen door hung.
And attached the door pull : a thrift store find, repurposed with gratitude for the screw holes, to a certain Dine friend and former colleague.
It is a somewhat jua kali job. Old adobe walls, even recently restuccoed ones, aren’t straight or square.
I still need to do some manoeuvering with wood and foam to make it a closer fit. For now it closes with a rag tie.
Jua kali gets it done. How many times a week do I thank my developing world origins for the legacy of parallel universe paradigm.
A whole toolkit of resources of body and mind.
No. American people do not need to travel to other countries “to appreciate how much they have” (in the opinion of a fellow yoga teacher, referring to going to India) but rather to see how little they have, how much has been lost in the pursuit of materialism and ego.
