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Its a new month, and a new banner. I took this photo of some travel mate's shoes at the Lord Shiva Temple in Machakos, Kenya (2008). We had to take our shoes off to enter the inner sanctuary. People I was with were reacting very differently. Some were crying, some were taking pictures, others wanted to get the hell out of there.

I was excited to see the temple, but was unmoved. I am coming to discover that when I am traveling and happen upon a religiously significant site, I look at the monument with an anthropologists eye. I don't look back on it as terribly affecting, but educational and historical. A lot of that must have something to do with my serious beef with religion (not just Christianity).

Peace and No Worries.