Mike's Thoughts
Mike's Thoughts
Michael Perry
Welcome to Mikes Thoughts. Mostly day to day ramblings on life in Cambodia or other places in Asia and beyond. I write on coffee, thoughts, ideas, whatever I decide. Hope you enjoy the stay.
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It feels like every day the words compound and become insistent. They want to be written and there’s little I can really do to hold them up. Like now finishing coffee this tiny little voice becomes more strident. It’s like I can hear it....
I guess it’s a good time to write. House is quiet. The day started at an earlier time than I like. That’s been the same lately. I’ve done some really nice walks. Have felt this quiet sense of the doing. Not achieving or measuring. The...
There’s something about the daily thing with coffee. Here in Cambodia there is no hurry. No one comes along and looks impatiently at me taking one of the comfy chairs. My coffee dawdles along much like my thoughts. I had written on my...
About once a week I beer. Then I head out with my wife telling me to enjoy. Drink only one beer. Joking of course. And I sit where I sit at this restaurant I’ve come to for years. Life stops a moment and I can catch up or get off the...
Sitting with coffee this morning it came to me that these days stretch on into my desire to find my interlude. My moment between. When I walk here I start down this street where we live and Khmer people wave and say good morning or...
Testing publishing from Obsidian to pika.
Today seemed rather slow. Walking felt like it took some effort. The sun always feels good. Reaching my morning coffee meant a time to just watch. Listen to the slow purr of jazz music and some nice acoustic stuff. The owner plays...
There’s this time in the house before the neighborhood becomes that. Before voices rise in a myriad of talks, yells, kids playing. I guess truth be told I don’t mind the kids. Khmer kids are completely different than their adult...
My friend Paul shared a photo of us all together eating at a local Bun Cha place. I could not at first name the place but upon looking at the background in the photo, I saw the street I lived on and the wonderful little place we all...
I was out for a weekly foray for some beer and maybe a little expat companionship. I found both. The beer was a nice break and as usual I sat at Viva. There’s just a thing about going there for the drinking part I just enjoy. It’s at the...
It’s getting to end of the tourist season. May signals a shift in the pattern. Those visiting kind of tails off. The places sometimes change their hours. One coffee shop I visit lowers their prices during low season. The weather does its...
Lately I’ve been watching and reading a variety of things about journaling. At one point I thought the physical act of pen and paper brought this new focus to writing a daily thing. Then I look at my handwriting. What dawned on me I...
Yesterday was a change. Breakfast out at a place we had not been in some time. Then coffee and meeting my friend Sean for some words on life, relationships. Even some politics. Life here mostly is this sense of isolation in a crowd. We...
Today will be another coffee downtown sort of day. Then a walk somewhere and I’ll find another alley or side street that aimlessly branches off some other bigger street. It’s early still so enjoying the basic writing in bed with the...
I was kinda tired this morning from another night of less than good sleep. Then I decided to go walk. First was coffee and then a stroll through Wat Bo in areas I enjoy. This is what happened. Red Flower for my wife I sent this flower to...