title: Mystery at Blessing Lake: The God's Green Earth Chronicles - Vol. 1
author: Heidi K Kaether
description: Heidi Kaether is a resident of rural Wisconsin, where she has lived most of her life (other than a few short stints in Illinois, Connecticut, and Sicily.) She is a very blessed mother to nine children (here on earth), wife of nearly twenty years to one wonderful man, and daughter of The One True King.
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  Walking in Clouds
  
  A Journey to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar
  
  KAVITHA YAGA BUGGANA
  
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   _To my father-in-law,_  
   _who loved books and who would have been delighted_  
   _to read this one._
  
   _And to my parents,_  
   _who raised me with the confidence that a woman’s place is in her home, her
  office, her studio, her lab, and wherever else her_  
   _dreams may take her._
  
  Contents
  
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  The Lake and the Mountain
  
  Travellers, Waiting
  
  Amid Giants
  
  Reality Hits
  
  Other Journeys
  
  First Camp
  
  One More Day
  
  Readers
  
  Along the Karnali
  
  As Long As It Takes
  
  Deities
  
  Crossing a Line
  
  Soldiers
  
  First Sight
  
  Why We Worship the Gods We Worship
  
  Dipping, Cleansing
  
  Lights on the Lake
  
  Chiu Gompa, the Bird Monastery
  
  Last Town
  
  The Mountain of the Gods
  
  Love Stories
  
  Pilgrims
  
  Kailash at Night
  
  Blue Lights
  
  Walking in Clouds
  
  A Stolen Day
  
  Moon Lake
  
  Returning
  
  Transient and Eternal
  
   _Index_
  
   _Afterword and Acknowledge