Author: moodeous
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In Relation to Pocahontas…
My family doesn’t mess around when it comes to reunions. Nearly 200 Rowe descendants gathered in Fredericksburg, VA over the July 4th weekend for a historically and socially significant weekend. I watched my 93 year old Grandfather light up at the faces of his cousins who greeted him by saying “George Rowe! I thought you were…
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Last Stop Tokyo
While in Tokyo, I received a fortune. It was a “bad” fortune. “Although you are in a hurry, there will be no boat to cross the river. If you dare to sail, the boat will be swallowed by high waves. You can’t go ahead and you should go back to your homeland. When you get…
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Art Imitates Life
In Yen Duc, Vietnam we had “backstage passes” to check out the water puppet theater–one of the most celebrated artistic traditions dating back to the 11th century. It’s charming and surprisingly impressive. We sat on miniature stools cramped among an array of puppets and watched the action unfold before us. Nine people in waders maneuvered…
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Pools… (Halong Bay, Vietnam)
We float before the sea at dusk In heavy mist, in glitter dust I smile before I want to I smile because you want to – Glass Animals
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Perhaps my favorite…
Yen Duc is a small village between Hanoi and Halong Bay. In just over 24 hours our guide, Thuy, showed us more wonderful things that words can describe. So (of course) I offer you too many photos instead.
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Invisible in Hanoi and Ho Chi Min, Vietnam
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Patient Grey Days (Hong Kong)
“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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Just try… (Tokyo: Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden)
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
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The Luckiest
Some people just belong together… I was sitting with Charlie and Erin recently thinking how they are some of the best people I know when I realized I never posted these.