Human Terrain

Photos from the aforementioned picnic spot for Kabul residents, Lake Qargha.

R. at Qargha

It’s a man-made reservoir near the Kabul Golf Club where you can get a drink and rent a pedal boat or a horse to ride.

A boy came up and passed over me with the smoke of burning espan, a kind of incense from a desert plant. It serves to ward off the evil eye.

In the evening I came home and was very embarassed to fall asleep during a meeting in the sitting room with a Waziri emissary. He expressed confidence in U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and I expressed my face into my lap; pinching myself didn’t work.