The book Windblown Clouds was published in October, 2003 by Escape Media Publishers in Morrison, Colorado, USA

The Asian edition of Windblown Clouds was published in June, 2006 by Pilgrims Publishers of Varanasi, India and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Back Cover of the Asian Edition

The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. From the earliest times there have always been some who have perished along the road. Still, I have always been drawn by windblown clouds into dreams of a lifetime of wandering.

~Matsuo Basho

    Windblown Clouds tells the tale of my first extended journey at the age of twenty-two.

   The USA edition is in two parts. Part One takes place on the Greek island of Corfu, where I lived atop the island's highest mountain in an ancient stone monastery with the monastery's sole inhabitant, an old monk who had lived alone on the storm-wracked summit for over four decades.

    “I think you should come with me to India.”
    Thus begins the Indian edition (which is part Part Two of the USA edition), the day I leave the island, go to Italy to renew my visa, and get on the same ferry returning to Greece. I happen to sit next to Ed Spencer, a brilliant seventy-year-old ex-Harvard professor, turned wandering holy man who makes this offer within an hour of our meeting. Though unsure whether the old man is some kind of a bum or a realized being—or both, I agree to go with this enigmatic stranger whose credo is, “Take the money out of your pocket and put yourself in the hands of the unknown.”
    The ensuing journey, recounted in the pages of Windblown Clouds, takes us on an epic journey by foot into the heart of South India and then to the Himalayas where I made my first contact with the Tibetan people.

    In the words of Kathleen Raine, the renowned and decorated British poet: “Thomas K. Shor’s story reminds us that we are, or could be, travelers in a world of marvels, of love, and encounters with men and women themselves on pilgrimages of the imagination.”

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