Thailand Photos

In honor of our Korean friend, Sarah (from France) and i, matching as we often did, took this photo in Tokyo.View from the top of a temple in Bangkok. The Thai military flag and the King's flag. We always saw these together.Making funny faces on one of our long city bus rides.
Me painting faces in the Bangkok slums.
Painting in Patong.-- "It was all yellow"
Several of our team got baptized in the Andaman Sea. This is the rest of the group looking on.
We got to gallop down the beach on our free day! Me, Charity, and Sarah.
Wuut, our translator, helping us with the work in Chiang Rai.
The whole team, 28 of us, at the tallest waterfall in the Chiang Rai province.

Thanks to Sarah Esquevin for the photos.

Home Again

"To market, to market, to buy a fat pig
Home again, home again, jiggety jig."
--Mother Goose

the Ocean

This is a ramble encompassing some of my mind-fodder of late. There is a possibility of further expounding, but it is not guaranteed.

The ocean is very large. It has regular tides and holds thousands of life forms. It is different colors under different weather patterns and has varying temperature according to latitude and longitude. It is a whole different world from the one the vast majority of humanity is comfortable in: land. This difference is as great as the simple difference between solid and liquid. However, similar qualities felt or observed within separate beings or objects create fascination; often communication. Much like different bits of color "call to one another" in a painting, so does the depth and mystery of a soul feel some sort of relation with the depth and mystery of the ocean. People splash and play and get burned to a crisp at the seaside, but there is always the sense of the ocean's inevitability. People even live and breathe upon the ocean, and become familiar with its turnings, and it seems that even then it becomes increasingly personified in their minds.