the city life

Hello everyone. We took a bus to Phnom Pen. Pretty uneventful, Will slept, in fact he is still sleeping, and I am much further along in my Barbara Kingsolver novel than I would like to be. I picked up a used copy in Bangkok of Prodigal Summer and it has been an excellent companion these last few days. Very thought provoking and I am already growing a little sad at the impending end of it which should happen tonight. So, off to find another book now. I think we may end up being here two days as Will has now slept the entire day and we will not be able to make it to the killing fields until tomorrow. We will be unable to take the land-crossing we had hoped to into Vietnam and must come back to this city to get to Ho Chi Min anyway through another land crossing. Phnom Pen reminds me a little bit of Yangon. Something about the feel of it, the tension seems to be the same here, but I will let you know more when I have had more time to explore. The Kingsolver book was really a good choice, there are a couple of story lines running though the book. One is about nature and how when one element of it is destroyed or extirminated so to speak, how the entire network of nature loses it balance. Maybe just a little, and then it fights its way back only to suffer another imbalance and so it goes. The ebb and flow of life. The Tao is around me, everywhere I am and at all times. I guess those are the eyes I view life with ... in, out, up down... together, apart, everything is relative to the situation I am currently experiencing. Just taking it all in over here and trying not to have too much judgement or thought, but my mind does challenge me at times. And certainly my heart.

Talk to you all later,
willandCODY