“When I was a kid I had a spark in me, yanno? Like I was always a happy kid, like I always had a bit of a flame going, and nothing could really knock it out.”
So this woman says to me - very sweet, darling - “Would you like to see the lama?” So I’m thinking it’s a fucking animal somewhere, like a sheep type of thing or whatever…
Spoiler alert: the woman did not mean the animal.
Mike DeStefano tells us about meeting a Tibetan monk (aka a lama) during some of the worst days of his life.
[photo via wwarby on Flickr]

![So this woman says to me - very sweet, darling - “Would you like to see the lama?” So I’m thinking it’s a fucking animal somewhere, like a sheep type of thing or whatever…
Spoiler alert: the woman did not mean the animal.
Mike DeStefano tells us about meeting a Tibetan monk (aka a lama) during some of the worst days of his life.
[photo via wwarby on Flickr]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72gyjeTh71rojx62o1_500.jpg)