[thechat] surfacing

Joel D Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Wed May 26 17:27:09 CDT 2004


> Imagine walking on your own, at seven in the morning, in a city where 
> there is nothing that you can get a hold of (especially the 
> music of a 
> language that you can't grasp at all), on your own, and 
> taking pictures 
> of old people (like maybe 70 years old) practising tai-chi in 
> front of 
> one of the Forbidden City's walls. That was *sheer* *magic*.

whoah. yeah.

> Leaving the US?

in a new york minute. imagine, if you will, a lifetime surrounded by
nothing but Americans. They're not all like the nice folks you meet
online.

My samplings of other cultures has left me starving for *something*
besides California. Heck, even NorCal is better than SoCal, but I really
truly do want out of the US, and I've had a lifelong passion for the
Irish culture (or what I perceive to be the Irish culture in my own
fevered imagination) so I'd like to give it a shot.

joel


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