PEACEFUL JOURNEY

This photo was taken on my 1983 trek in Bhutan. This small kingdom is removed from our world but beautiful in its natural charm, a wilderness in which a people have blended into the environment, built, altered and amended it in a way that nature was proud to accommodate. The elderly woman in this photo built a very small fire in a corner area of the shrine, either for warmth or as part of the ritual. The shrine was just along side a path that I also used, so we saw each other a number of times. She was old, a mass of loose wrinkled skin. Her clothes were old and tired. God may have come and gone, yet she waited and waited.

by: ROBERT RADIN