Category: Pakistan
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Buzzing in Karachi, Part 1
*The following is a snippet from a memoir I’m writing. It reflects on a scene that took place in Karachi, Pakistan, while meeting a new friend. Next week’s essay will complete the piece.* It was a late night in Karachi and the air was thick with mischief. I’d come to the city with a friend…
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2023: Year in Review
On a brisk evening in October 2022, I took a long run through my Denver neighborhood, listening to nothing more than my labored breathing and some wandering thoughts. Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, was fresh on my mind after I’d just devoured her book Big Magic—an insightful self-help text on harnessing…
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Pakistan: The Karakoram Highway & Hunza
I’ve dreamed of this land for over half my life. The Karakoram Highway found root in my mind through a collection of mountaineering memoirs I’d read in my early 20s and flourished like bindweed in a forgotten garden. Climbers en route to K2 and Nanga Parbat pulled aside the curtain with their descriptions, promising an…
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Heading Home
I’m headed home. After 3 months of weaving my way across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Pakistan, I’m returning to the U.S., carrying glimpses of a new reality I’d previously failed to comprehend. I’m thrilled to see my family, my partner, and my friends. But I’m tangled up in the knots of purpose and place,…