DAILY PHOTO: Naga & Water Lilies, Wat Don Muang

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DAILY PHOTO: Wat Sensoukharam by Night

DAILY PHOTO: Grenade-Laden Father and Child Reunion

PROMPT: Dream Job

What’s your dream job?

One that involves interacting with only a small group of familiar people, and which allows for a great deal of deep thought and introspection. (And for the tricky part to reconcile,) one that involves / or allows for a good deal of travel.

DAILY PHOTO: Street Art of Vientiane

American Center Vientiane
Institut Français

DAILY PHOTO: Adrift on the Nam Song

DAILY PHOTO: Wat Sisaket, Vientiane

Library
Courtyard

FIVE WISE LINES [January 2025]

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away.”

Philip k. dick

“The Wu and the Yue peoples hate each other. But in the same boat in a storm, they work together like left and right hands.”

SunZi in The ART of War

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

anthony bourdain

What allows great kings and generals to win, more frequently than ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
Foreknowledge cannot be attained by spirits or deduced or calculated.”

Sunzi in The ART of war

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

T. S. Eliot

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Contour

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“Song of the Open Road” (15 of 15) by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]

Allons! the road is before us!
It is safe -- I have tried it -- my own feet have
tried it well -- be not detain'd!

Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten,
and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let
the money remain unearn'd!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of
the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the
lawyer plead in the court, and the judge
expound the law.

Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than
money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come
travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we
live?