Pipe dream or passion?
We all envision lofty dreams with the hopes of someday fulfilling it. For those who discount their dreams as crazed chimeras, impractical and unobtainable, the yearning buries itself in a silent coffin of wishful thinking. The shimmer of hope is relegated to a fantasy. For those of tenacious will and drunken passion, a frenzied fantasy can be made a reality.
For one such man, his dream was such… (more…)
Vientiane, Laos.
If seeing Buddhas are you thing, then you’ll never find yourself at a loss in Laos. In fact, at Wat Si Sisket, there’s an impressive collection of over 2,000 of them. Housed in a cloister, the Buddhas meditate around the main temple, each of them aged with its own personality of time, material and ruin. It’s a virtual antiquities museum jogging you to reflect on the history and reincarnations of ‘The Reawakened One‘.
My first impression of Vientiane?
Dust. Dirt. Dry. Barren.
Vientiane was warm for winter, with no oasis of lush vegetation to seduce the eyes. I had just spent a horribly restless night on my overnight train , crossing the border from Thailand into Laos. I was wanting to be impressed..
When I arrived at the Laotian capital, I was still waiting…
(Vientiane, Laos)
Dear Love,
There were things we never spoke of..
Things you never asked about me and things I never told.
There were others.
In the coming weeks, my letters and loves will feel confusing. A flood of memories are unfolding. The ink in my pen is heavy and full — my past and present will flow into one.
Until,
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