Kindness

Hi,

We're back in Thailand after a record-long travel time. We got a very warm welcome from Boot and the dogs. It's good to be home. Of course, we had that pesky stow-away, Mr. Jet Lag on the trip and now he's doing his thing.

The last song I gave you was the end of the 'Song of '75' series. It was "Dance With Me" by Orleans.
This 'Easy Monday' song should be just that: "Diamond life, lover boy. He moves in space with minimum waste and maximum joy. City lights and business nights, when you require streetcar desire for higher heights... No need to ask, he's a __ __, __ __, __ __." Hint: It's about a cool 'man about town'. The singer goes by just one name.

We left LAX on Thursday night and arrived in Chiang Rai on Saturday night. The total travel time, door to door was 35 hours. Part of this was 8 hours in the airport in Bangkok, waiting for the flight from BKK to Chiang Rai. There are only so many planes a day going to the north.

The bags are finally unpacked, things are mostly put away, and the eyelids get heavy when we least expect them to droop. A few more days and we should be back to some semblance of normal.

We went to Central Plaza yesterday (Sunday) and walked in on a giant dance recital of the cutest tiny little kids. The place was crawling with children, parents and grand-parents. We went there for a coffee meeting with Jaffee to work on Lisa's Chiang Mai exhibit, but the location of our meeting changed. We then went to Doi Chaang and had delicious coffee, and discussed the business. Our friend Rachel, from The Sold Project, had been upstairs and I ran into her at the front door. She joined us and we had another little meeting. We didn't even know she was still in the country. Funny how things work out. We're having dinner with her tomorrow night.

This morning I had a massage from Khun Joy and it really helped loosen up the travel muscles. She told me, in her Thai/English mix, about the cold, rainy weather here while we were gone. Since we've been back it's been very cold at night and warm by mid-day. Hmm, seem to remember this same pattern last year. Oh well, it will be hot soon and I'll be fussing about how hot it is.

We have already noticed some interesting things since we've been back. A Thai cellphone with an Italian opera ringtone, a giant light display on the highway to celebrate the completion of a temple complex, and more lights on Clock Tower street celebrating the New Year.

Sunday will be the celebration of Chinese New Years and Jaffee is having a party which will also celebrate Lisa's birthday. It will be, as they say here, "A very auspicious day".

As if someone is waving a watch in front of me, "I am getting very sleepy".

Have a Great Week.

Peace,
Danny

"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love."
~Lao-Tzu

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