I always leave with much more than I arrived with. Tuy Hòa didn’t let me go empty-handed either. What if I can’t handle all the things I bring with me anymore?
326. | Complaining is easier than embracing
It’s easier to complain than to embrace. And it’s easier to judge. I’m not doing anything for either of them right now. I’m just embracing this idea.
325. | Tuy Hòa
Every closed hostel door opens a pub door. I remember reading this in a self-help book.
324. | Quy Nhơn
If everything had gone according to plan today, I wouldn’t have 14 mini dice. Today’s hike was just the way I like it.
323. | The control is the illusion
No control, no illusions, no tension. I am where I wanted to be, and the heavens intended that the bed I had imagined would be waiting at the end of the road.
322. | Hoi An
I didn’t get a pair for the third round, so I looked the clouds in the eye and thought that here and now there were neither questions nor answers for me.
321. | The art of saying goodbye II.
I couldn’t say goodbye then. Then I realized I had said goodbye. Now I’ve learned to say goodbye. Then I realized I had nothing to say goodbye to.
320. | Three poems for one evening
Watching the sunset. Or the birds in the sky. Something that takes your hand and flies you somewhere where time doesn’t matter.
319. | Da Nang
I don’t have to see everything. I don’t have to check everything. I just have to notice when, behind my own “no,” something says, very quietly: Of course. You do.
318. | … because that would be to replace you yourself
I can show you how I transformed myself. I have no secrets because I don’t like to keep secrets. The Miracle is Already Here.