While you are beginning your day in the States, we are winding down ours. Maybe by most standards we had a rather uneventful day. But, while we are ahead of you on the clock, time moves more slowly here. The people move more slowly. If there was a horn to honk at folks blocking up a sidewalk, us Bostonians would blow it. In our world we move too fast, speeding by sights and sounds and activity without ever truly perceiving it. But here in Thailand, the people amble rather than stride. They stop for cold drinks under a shady bridge. They stop to watch two white Americans spin in circles with a map in their hands. And through them, we can slow, stop, and experience. The jet lag is finally relenting to the endless cocktails of
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