Back to Bethlehem

[Ray McMillan uses “home” to speak of both Regina, SK, and NE India.  He and his wife Ellen are among the kindest and most serving people I know.]

When travelling, I much prefer non-stop flights. Last April, on a flight from Yangon (Burma) to Kolkata I was disappointed when informed that we were making a stopover at Bodh Gaya, center of the Buddhist world, 479 km. northwest of Kolkata. A multitude of orange attired passengers disembarked, each on a pilgrimage to the place where the Buddha is said to have attained “unsurpassed, supreme enlightenment.”