Around Pinehurst - March (Cairns and Prayers)

Once upon a time

I took a really long trip

to a part of the world

that doesn't have western style toilets.

now.

this is significant

because I have a "toilet thing"

whereby I will not clean them

because my gag reflex just. cannot. deal.

so if you've ever been to a place

where you have had the pleasure of using

various eastern style toilets

oh...say...a place like Tibet

then the beauty of this

Toilet cairn, a bit off balance - Main floor Powder Room

Photo (c) b3 home designs

becomes far more relevant.

At Everest Base Camp (Tibet side),

we collected a couple of rocks.

All around Tibet, rocks are stacked (rock stacking = cairn)

mostly in prayerful repose

for safe travels

Or I think something like that

This cairn is our tribute

to the Great White Western Toilet God

that allows us the grace

to lazily sit our fat butts

on a bowl

that collects things unthinkable

and whisks them away to places

I never have to go

As opposed to crude holes in the ground

that I wasn't even allowed to use

more times than not

because I have lady parts.

Oh...Tibet.

Happy March!