A narrow set of stairs squeezed between shops selling funereal goods off a narrow alley in Bangkok’s Chinatown leads you to the  Charoen Chai Community Preservation Project. The first thing you see as you mount the stair are the rafters, exposed and blackened as if by fire. At the top of the stairs a [...]

    Imlil, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco I sit on a stone in the shade of a walnut tree and watch a young farrier hammer 3-inch nails though a mule’s hoof, nipping the excess nail off before bending the stub over. It seems over-kill on size, but as I’ve never shod a mule who am I [...]