a morning in the arab quarter...
a forgotten snippet from “The Gypsy Ashram”
Debra Robinson Sep 22, 2026
One morning we wandered the Arab quarter in Bangkok and had breakfast in a Yemeni restaurant.
The Muslim owner quickly surmised that we were Americans and told us that they had all been praying for us as Hurricane Sandy approached our shores.
He addressed us as ‘my sister’ and ‘my daughter’…