[Music] So she had this vision of returning to Ladakh when she first mentioned it to me, I

said, 'Can I come too?' But then later she was like, 'I didn't think you were serious. I'm going alone.'

You know, she had that [Music] idea, and I just wanted to be with her more than anything else.

[Music] I really came to Leh and came to Ladakh because of Caitlin, because she was

[Music] [Music] coming, really not knowing how it was going to work, how it was possibly going

to happen. I knew I wanted so much to come to this place [Music] [Music].

Yeah, come on! [Music] One, two! Yeah, yeah! Two! Oh! [Music] Oh, it's a good throw! Good throw!

Song. Sing for the work and sing for, you know, for the encouragement and the joy of the days. That's also so

important in what happens in this village all the time. Our voices and other people's voices, you know, sort of

all mixed together. On the southern side, in the snow. Uh-huh. Coming down from

high. Look! Whoa! [Music] [Music] Coming! Yeah! [Music] Thank you so much! The fire feels so

good. Is it easy to find water? Bring water. Oh yeah! [Music] [Music] Chocolate drink!

I feel so grateful that this traveled with us. Mhm. So special. So far traveled from your home in what jungle place?

Beautiful one. Mhm. To us in America, to Ladakh. Magical beans! I love life in the village and I love the ducky tea, and

also I crave hot chocolate sometimes. I just want to drink hot chocolate. Uh-huh. Yeah, they actually don't—oh, don't

Oh, beautiful Kakadu. I feel like something I've experienced a lot in my life in America

is just so much abundance. There are so many things; who even knows what all, but so much is available all the time to the

point where people just like, just like take it and don't even think about it. You could just drink the chocolate and

then it's gone. Um, but instead, to be here with it and, uh, you know, really savor it and treasure it feels really

good. Also, we have this much right now that, you know, that's how much we can have now. It makes it feel precious, and so to

drink each cup of it and know each time we give it to the pot, like, alright, there won't be more.

[Music] [Inaudible] [Music] We came here and we

stopped. We didn't go any further; we didn't go anywhere else because it felt so good to be here. And so I feel like

yes, we chose this place, and also no, we didn't choose anything, and yes, we were chosen by this place. And also that was only

because we came here with the longing to be chosen by somewhere. [Music] [Music]

getting water, sometimes it's the sound of Caitlin chopping wood that wakes me up in the morning. What the sounds of this village

and the silences of this village give to us is probably indescribable, but you could say that

it's a sense of peace, a sense of space I would say, and sort of rich, like rich soil, like

rich ground for love and appreciation to grow in...

Wow, that whole cliff wall is dry actually. Oh my goodness, I'm so glad he got a new

stove pipe.  Mhm. Been so smoky in our kitchen and looks like a new base for

One of the B cars? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. Okay, yeah. No, I can't do that to you. Yeah, yeah. I'll

just put them in the sun; it'll be fine. Put them in the sun. Hey, it's [Music]

Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank [Music] [Music] you. Oh, yeah.

[Music] Great. [Music] One... you remember this place?  Ael, remember coming here in the springtime?

I remember walking through the whole field of it, asking Aseong what it was. I remember that sort of wonder,

thinking about how life could be around these cliffs and huge valleys, and I wondered what a balance

looked like between people and their land. I had never seen it. I had never seen it before we came here, you

know, and now I've almost forgotten the feeling of doubt, you know, of hopelessness.  MH, feeling it's so possible

here that is that matters so much these last years, knowing that it can be, you know, that people can live together that

way. I think before it was an idea; it was like an imagining, you know, a dream.

Yeah, for me too. And this place did feel like walking into a dream. This valley still does. Long Gateway dream. Gateway. Yeah, I feel that.

I remember the day we were harvesting our potatoes. You just being like, "Yes! Finally, we're doing our work. We planted this and we're

harvesting it, and we're going to eat it." I remember that. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for doing that with me. Thank you for

coming here and doing so many other people's work for a while, you know, for a time. You know, I remember when I tried to

convince you to stay in Maine and not go. And we didn't know how our lives would change. No, we had no idea. But I

I knew I needed to come here. I knew it as clearly as I've ever known anything. I don't understand that knowing.

I could see that in you, but we had no idea what would come of coming here.

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