Mikes Thoughts

coffee walking and 11ty

Another start to another day. I started and stopped at various places. I don’t know why. I just don’t get the feeling of wanting to write there. Life’s too short to not like the place I decide to do this. So here I am back and starting again. It feels much like coming home again but with the simplest of endeavors. Like a switch thrown that once I see the other side I want only back again.

Today was the usual walk to a place I knew I wanted this morning. There are coffee places here I always think of as favorites. Others are the go to when I want the smaller and easier. This place offers no big time views but the basics are here. WiFi always good. I can just decide here to write. Write and think. Or perhaps as my wife would say “overthink”. I think that’s ok. Perhaps it is the way of me living and wandering for these years. Many times I would be at some place and think life would just be better or different. Slower or faster. Whatever.

If I just went. It seems it was the going I really wanted. The arrival was fun usually. Often it involved Vietnam. I don’t know why but it has held some keys to me for a long time. Like a hidden and secret part I can find by going.

Now it’s Siem Reap and what the wonderful parts are this city offers. The going. The arriving. The writing about both. And the coffee. Oh. And 11ty. Because it’s my going and arrival there too.

I don’t know when I write what tomorrow brings. Will I just take the moments then and write a thing or two. Start a post today and let it linger until another day comes. I like doing that. It kind of emulates my days here. One nameless day to another. My wife asking me sometimes what day it is. The iPhone helps I guess.

And the coffee and the writing. See you my next time.