Life: Part #2. I’m not calling these “trips” anymore, these journeys to Asia that I’m doing. It’s really more like My Life: Part #2. Part #1 happens in Kansas City with my incredible Boiler Room family. Part #2 is in Asia, with my family over there. Two lives but really just one. Two worlds in [...]
Archive for January, 2012
My Life: Part #2
Posted in Boiler Room, the journey of life, travels, tagged Asia, Boiler Room, kansas city, travel on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The coming-together
Posted in the journey of life, the Nations, tagged convergence, friends, rest on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I sat around our table tonight with nine other friends, warm lighting, a remarkable Vietnamese raw cabbage salad, veggie stir fry and unforced conversation, witnessing a coming-together of strands and streams that delights me and would be more weird if it wasn’t so much of my reality these days. History, relationship and dreams are gracefully [...]
I’m just being honest
Posted in travels, tagged men, New York City, writing on January 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I was looking forward to wandering purposefully around New York City by myself until I stepped out the door. Not to say that suddenly the cold air against my naked ears and my unfamiliar surroundings robbed me of this awaited joy, but the actual experience was clouded with an underground swirl of activity within me [...]
Captured by Flushing
Posted in the journey of life, travels, tagged beauty, diversity, New York City on January 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York. I’ve been there once before, to the neighborhood called Flushing. It was back in 2002, on a Spring Break trip with friends from my university. We spent a week there, and I only recall glimpses of that time, but somehow, it won its way into my heart. I [...]
