Mikes Thoughts

Sunday words

Have to admit the writing really is best how it is now. I can easily publish to the blog on my laptop. Or start a thing and carry it forward to the coffee shop I manage to reach. This makes writing and wanting to write so much easier. I think the barrier to entry and friction is so low when it’s me and a markdown editor and a nice git client on iOS.

Sunday I like the longer walks to coffee. I can go different ways I enjoy and see the morning come on through. Rainy season means usually by afternoon I really want to be done but honestly walking in the rain here has never been some issue. Today I took this other way to the Red Soil coffee shop. This one is part of a chain here but it’s smaller and seems more personal. WiFi is good. Coffee always.

From here

There’s the winding little street in Wat Bo I love to walk. How I can just go and let the steps do themselves. I will see small shops and cafes. Pubs and restaurants. Bakeries. Things. Sometimes stop and get a donut for my walk or some bread. Cambodia makes some of the nicest breads I’ve seen. A loaf of the bread to take along my walk is 1000 riel or $0.25. Also there are these street vendors selling donuts all over most mornings. Food is pretty much h wherever. I like that.

Now it’s coffee thoughts. It’s always seemed coffee shops are important places. Places where ideas and thoughts meet as well as people. Some of my weirdest thoughts maybe came from coffee shops. They are platforms for moments of self too. I think Cambodia is all about the communal and social so I need the time when there is none.

Finally this Sunday is this weekend where I felt the need to get away from the house. So I stopped eating meals there. Stopped just sitting there for hours. I don’t think it’s good for me to just sit like that. So I took a vacation from both.

Writing never gets a break. I never feel some desire to stop or any more do differently. I’ve tried something different. It’s just not me. The only way so far that gives me pleasure and lets me feel I find something is the way I’m doing it. Easy to wave the wand and say,

Oh. I’ll just create complex notes and wonderful brain things. Link them together. Make them relate. Record and evaluate. Find and hold.

Problem is I don’t want any of that. Why make a thing complex and different when simple and easy just works. The main thing I want is this. To find my Sunday words. Share an idea or a photo. Or both. Let you get a glimpse around a bit. Tell you you don’t have to just settle in retirement. There’s more. And that’s gonna come too. Just not this Sunday in these words.

An interview on life

An interesting afternoon spent doing an interview on life in Cambodia and what it means. Ups and downs. This and that. I met a wonderfully engaging interviewer named Austin that lives in Phnom Penh. We talked life and living and doing. Then we got done and shared some other moments. I felt like I told him a fair mix of things on life here. Then got done and it was nice.

Now I will have beer. And clouds.

beer and clouds