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Illustrations: children's book
1) Moss, The Bike-Riding Mosquito
front cover first town

next town students of Kashtent go home

Book Layout and Cover Designs

1) Professor Richard Dowling's book
University of Maryland
also at amazon.com with view inside
covers and interior layout

2) Bifford Debs, M.D. (author)
From the Other Side book covers (to be released June 2009)


CD Jacket Layout and Designs
1) stedawa CD: in it for the long haul
2) stedawa CD: Peoples of the World - A New Day

Excerpts from sketchbook
1) variations on a face




2) memories

This is a painting of a friend who I met after finishing university, who I lost contact with during my world work-tour.

I gave the painting to another family, the Aggarwals, when they were in Thompson. They lost their son in the Air India crash off the coast of Scotland. A few years later, his mother died. There were also some other tragic losses of family members. Such a kind family. They helped me a bit with background info that lead to my writing the Ganesh song (on CD#2). The father and his daughter were in southern Ontario last I heard. I think it is sometimes very hard for people to accept the kind of deep-wracking emotional upheavals, but then again, it is said that we are never tested beyond our limits.

Visiting them brought back many of my pleasant memories of living in India. Sitar and flute music really enchant me like the song of a bride.

3) India Café


Chai! Chai! can be heard by train-travellers in India. As the train pulls in to every station, children, youth, or adult salespersons holding trays of small glasses of tea run up to the train windows looking for thirsty customers. On the streets as well, there are many tiny to large cafés and restaurants that offer tea and small edibles. I really enjoyed having chai and idlis. They can also be eaten with sambhar. Often, riding my bicycle, I would stop and enjoy the small tea stalls on the roadside on my way to Pondicherry.

In northern India, men wear dhotis, in the south they wear lungis. Often a rolled-up towel or cloth would be worn on the head as protection from the strong sun. Women, bedecked in bangles, anklets, nose-rings and other adornments, floated by in colorful saris.