Some travels into the far edges of the city, and creeping country

Wednesday, May 21st

I've been just jotting some things down while traveling in shuttle buses....these are some of my thoughts:

TWO SIDES to a VIETNAM; this ones a good one.......

WECOME TO A WORLD OF:

Sporadic design
Lotus Heaven
Smiles that grow larger than the faces they inhabit
Water----raining everyday, rivers that seem to have to much water, water to grow rice,
Freighters, and make believe/one person watercraft float side by side down slow wide rivers. How can you tell the time here? Is it by the number of fish you catch?
Laughter---from the mouths of a family together, laughter from the children in the streets
A different rhythm leaks from the city, one hard to organize into times
Trees planted by the French are large and towering over this ever rising city
Thick cut thatch roofs
An AmAziNg tangled, interwoven, geometric, above-ground tunnel work of electric cables line every street and alley.
Colorful people wearing /red/green/pink/white/red/red/red/red
Brooms are made of twigs
The human factor is very present
Moving from Ho Chi Minh City to rice fields is more than a human pressure change
What’s infrastructure? I have forgotten it here.
Where bonsai find a home under palm trees!
Where incense burn where they can burn, stuck into license plates, and shoved into places you would throw a cigarette but
Where temples are the norm, where religion is not group orientated
Where three stories is comfortable, but 60 story buildings poke up from a city map like dots on a scatter plot
Where the people may not understand why some of my friends might study art, but are a more colorful artistic people by nature.