Month: August 2019

If you ever find yourself in Southeast Asia, take a detour through Cambodia to tour the stunning ruins of Angkor Wat. Set in the middle of the Cambodian jungle, Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure in the world, and a masterwork of painstaking artisanship.

Antonio da Madalena’s quote below, though admiring, is an understatement, to say the least…

“Angkor Wat is of such extraordinary construction that it is not possible to describe it with a pen, particularly since it is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of.”

– António da Madalena, 1586

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“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind–wrapped tight like skin.”

“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind.”

“Make up a story … For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”

— Toni Morrison, RIP (1931 – 2019)

August is a month for dreaming, not doing … of lazing away the long afternoons, and basking in the fullness of summer twilight.

“We need the tonic of wildness …

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

We can never have enough of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau