It just lit up and was perfect!
Nice pink and blue clouds, with just the right amount of light!
If you cannot capture details, capture what you can that makes every moment in life worth living!
Almost as spectacular as it gets!
A different set of ruins, but very nice and restored indeed.
Do you see the stone Buddha face wrapped in the Bodhi tree? It's unknown how it got there, they believe the body of the figure is beneath the rest of the tree! Very magical!
A better photo of the Ayuthaya tuk-tuks from a sci-fi movie!The drivers speak 2 words of english: "Hello!? - - Taxi?"
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Yesterday when I was sitting enjoying my breakfast a phone call came in on my cell. The unexpected kind that we all fear and cannot bring ourselves to answer...but we are forced to. The person on the other end of the line doesn't even get a word or a breath in and the vacancy in emotion explodes around you like some cosmic supernova of dread. It was my sister, she had called to tell me my dad had been in a bike accident yesterday and was pretty roughed up. A collapsed lung, busted pelvis and maybe a fractured vertebrae. I will be calling to talk to him shortly, but needed to get some feelings scribed before the phone call. Stabilize my situation.
Lemons. Sour and bitter, and they leave and electrified sensation in your body. Somtimes good, somtimes not. I feel so helpless so many thousands of miles away. A distance it seems no hug can travel. Keep your thoughts and prayers with my dad for a speedy recovery. We are planning on riding the Triple Bypass next summer and he needs a clean bill of health for that!
Lemons: Part Deux
I hired a rickety boat to take me along the river to see some ruins of the ancient city that were beyond walking distance. The boat driver was obviously drunk and the craft was far from sea worthy (insert pirate joke here). There was no swimming involved and so in that sense all is well and I'm safe. However the sales pitch for the boat trip indicated that we would see the ruins lit up in all thier nightly splendor so one might be able to snap a few pictures to look like postcards. This was not the case...well...almost not. Through some divine intervention of cheap Thai whiskey and a 2 stroke motor that really should have been a 4 stroke we arrived at the last and most spectacular temple about 30 minutes later than planned. Just in time to witness a glorious pollution induced sunset and then the lights came on to make what could have been a horribly bitter experience turn out wonderfully sweet and electrifying. (sorry for the pun)
An illuminating (sorry again) end to an otherwise bittersweet day. Sometimes as seen in the photos above when you cannot capture the vivid details life gives your, its better to capture the moment as you lived it. Never force a false reality upon yourself, it only leads to false memory.
Back on the train again today to head to Bangkok. Send you thoughts to my dad. He's gonna need them!
1 comment:
Oh man! I will certainly be praying for speedy recovery for George! That sucks lemons indeed! On the plus side I am happy to hear that your unseaworthy vessel made it to the ruins and that you were able to take a few pics. The one pic is amazing and I am blown away at how incredible the lighting is! I am glad you could enjoy the moment, sometimes that is all we can do when we are so far away from everything that might seem right and comfortable. It is in those times that we learn about what matters most in life and who we are. I pray you are learning a lot in that area. Have a safe trip back to Bangkok.
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