Small Places : Nick L Belardes [45 of 128]

• "People from your city, your family, your neighborhood and outlying villages celebrate this festival for 5,000 years.
• "Customs are as ancient as the streets and air. All around you are lights and smiles. There are great temples and wide festival streets.
• "You stop for a pastry delicacy smothered in cheese. The ancients walked the same road, ate the same food,
• prepared in exactly the same way. "You see, a roll is not just a roll. It is a cultural artifact constantly remade in the likeness
• of its former self. "Every day they are reborn and you can have another. Time overlaps.
• This is the enlightenment of the roll," Vishnu says. Mike doesn't get it. On the pier I have a moment alone with Mulani.
• Far below we can see Vishnu and Mike tossing a Frisbee across the sand.
• Each dives over sea kelp and jellyfish carcasses to catch passes. Occasionally Mulani waves down to them while we walk.