(beep of smoke detector)
“That might be something to think about - mead pickles” “Pickle mead?” “How would that work? I don’t know about that…”
“Two nights before Tibetan New Year and that night we Tibetan tend to make noodle soup”
“We are going to make a dough out of this and squeeze it so all your fingerprints are in it. And while you doing that[...] you pray that all my sickness, bend and cut there, all my sickness, pray and throw them away.”
Children’s voices sing calmly
(These are prayer flags which are old and they’ve fallen on the ground, and you can’t just throw them away)
“We’re burning these in order to destroy them?”
“And it’s the same with teachings or scriptures…they can’t be thrown away so they should be burned.”