Life has been pretty busy for us since getting back from Chiang Mai two weeks ago. I’ve been working hard at the farm while the entire family (myself included) has been fighting off colds. A selfish joy in the midst of the hard work and sickness, though, has been the arrival of our new bamboo…
Category: Tools for the Journey
Chiang Mai Hostage Crisis: Day 21
It’s been three weeks since we’ve been home. It started as a simple trip to Chiang Mai to see friends and do some business. We never thought this would mean three weeks of captivity. Finally, though, it seems that the hostage release has been negotiated and we’ll be allowed to go home. I suppose you…
Spirited Away (in Thailand)
Some of my favorite movies are those by Hayao Miyazaki. It was in Spirited Away that I was first introduced to the ideas of “spirits”: little beings with one foot in our physical domain, another foot in the spirit domain. It seemed very silly to me at first. How could anyone believe it such things? The irony…
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