i was a peace corps volunteer in nepal back in the eighties. one afternoon some school children ran past my mud hut. inside, under the thatch roof, i was hard at work reading hemingway or perhaps journaling, maybe even doing laundry, though this was usually done in the morning, after a breakfast of rice and daal, by hand, down by the river. afternoon rem was an occasional pastime. but i was awake, i remember that.
as they ran past, the kids chanted 'aap bhanne ke? aap bhanne mango!' this translates to 'what is aap [in english]? aap is mango!' a transliteration of the sentence - that is, what it sounds like - is the title of this blog, my email, etc. every time i see or hear it, i am transported back to that idyllic time.
besides, who doesn't like bunnies and mangoes?
