Welsh historian, author and travel writer, Jan Morris wrote, "Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic."
#JanMorris #India

Welsh historian, author and travel writer, Jan Morris wrote, "Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic."
#JanMorris #India
Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today, our passages are Isaiah 62:6–65:25; Philippians 2:19–3:4a; Psalm 73:1-28; and Proverbs 24:13-14. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #JanMorris #Isaiah #Philippians #Proverbs #Psalms #TheMessage
🪷 #HappyBirthday: ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 Nov 2020. She was born 2 Oct 1926 as James. 🪷
2024 Guardian article by #JanMorris's son Mark. It has its reading challenges but interesting too that biological sex & gender tension is referred, #GermaineGreer brutality affected her too. Read with some latitude. Contemporary #AprilAshley no mention.
#JanMorris was a member of 1953 British #MountEverest expedition, that made the first ever confirmed ascent of #Everest, the only journalist to accompany the expedition, climbing with the team to a camp at 22,000 feet. She too was a trans woman who knew early on.