02.15.2009 by Shannon
Hello, Hanoi
(Part 8 of Many)
More stories from my first couple of weeks…
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It is Têt, and Bắc has invited me to spend this special new year’s week — a week so fantastic it is like New Year’s & Christmas & 4th of July & everyone’s birthday combined, I am told — with her family in Hai Phong.
On the bus we pass by fields green with rice paddies. The air is cold and bone-drilling. I do not want to write, but I have told myself I will write under all conditions. (more…)
Category Adventures in Asia, Location-Location, Narrative | Tags: hai au,hai phong,herb bath,tet,viet nam,vietnam | 1 Comment
01.18.2009 by Shannon
“Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown… Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories…Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities…” -Deepak Chopra
My cousin had the above quote posted on her Facebook page (wow. You know you’re a child of the internet when you blog about a FB posting… sigh).
Category PROJECTS, This Modern Life | Tags: tet,vietnam,year of no fear | No Comments