postcard no.//001
bhubaneshwar, india//5.2.08
on assignment for runner’s world magazine amidst a record early summer heatwave, the air thick with the smell of flower offerings, car exhaust, and animal excrement. a barechested cherub, some slightly devilish devotee, smears a dab of paint on my forehead while praying for me and in the same breath “some change for pictures for temple?” a touch to the head of a cow, the symbol of unselfish giving.
