The family at Angkor Wat

Here we are in Angkor Wat, agnostics, or atheists or not-yet-knowers all, happy as can be in the world’s largest religious building.
 Dante and Langston in one of two libraries on either side of the raised walkway down which one strolls in wonder as Angkor Wat, and its five, brilliantly symmetrical stupa-topped towers, looms larger and larger.
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Leilah in Angkor

We carry Leilah (Keleakai and Kailani’s late mother) with us wherever we go, in a small plastic container of sort she used to collect dozens of, filled with her ashes.  We give them and give her to the places we go.  Here (and if you click on the photo to enlarge it, you’ll see) her [...]

Catching up to photos

 Phnom Penh is a chaotic, often surreal place, a fever dream of toil and turmoil, weariness and illusions, of grabbing uncertainly but desperately for strands of a more certain future always on the brink of vanishing, a place where forgetting collides with remembering.  To me, it seethes today with striving and daily struggle, is a place tearing itself from the [...]

In the land of the temples

Made it to Siem Reap today.  Apparently Cambodia has more temples than any other country in Southeast Asia and Angkor Wat is the granddaddy of them all.  Actually, we haven’t seen the temples yet, because we arrived this morning from Singapore on a flight that got in at 7 a.m. and spent the day sort [...]