Mikes Thoughts

Staying some Course

I've been enjoying particularly the writing lately here. Sometimes I feel this rhythm and cadence to the writing. Like new ideas just spring forth with what I want to write or how to write it. I enabled wikilinks on the site so I can link to previous things easily. Like if I wanted to I could just do going and doing and whammo! It just shows up. One of the interesting things using one big file for a journal is creating the links to daily installments of the writing. This can happen in Obsidian by linking to a header within the journal file easily and creating a title for it. I like this a lot but it does not translate to IA Writer or other things. At first I thought this was something I would not do because it kind of lessens how I could use something else but I rethought it or overthought it or whatever and decided that this writing is mine. What it is and is not is really my call. I like being able to use one big file but still linking to a particular day. Nothing to me happens in isolation but a lot is so random that finding I had written a thing in some place and being able to see it again somewhere else seems like a special power.

This means I use obsidian more and I think for what I wish to do with the writing, it works well. Especially with a light weight theme like Cupertino or Border. BTW, they both work well on the mobile app too.

Part of my staying this course is being able to do more writing on things around me. Siem Reap is all around me so I decided I want to write more on the daily things I happen to see and do. Like walks and coffee and places I happen to get to here. The house does not do much for my desire of exploration except perhaps to get the F away but the getting away creates more of my desire to simply record that going.

In the interests of just enjoying my coffee in the house, some Del Amitri playing, and whatever else; I'll just let this go and find some coffee out at some nice place and then add some more words. Sprinkle with some Now.

out for coffee just because

From the house to Spring Coffee. My real favorite of them all. The comfort and sitting inside with AC. On comfy chairs. Writing now. We go to Battambang in a week. No expectations or needs there.

Now I can sit. Think on the going. On my coffee just served. How the days all tumble around when my wife asks,

what day is it today honey. I forget.

That part is this basic Khmer thing. This idea that there is Now. Apart from some day or week. I don’t think we barang ever get there. We are all too taken with time. Want it to be relentless or cyclical or forever. We forget about Now in search of when and then.

I can’t ever be more Khmer or less barang. I am stuck between the poles of what day is it and why do I still know.

Coffee awaits and life will go. Writing and sending and doing whatever today. A walk. Yes. A walk to some small street that intersects another. Somewhere between now and then.

That seems to be the kingdom of wonder.