The following is a literary expression/description of a particularly lucid and energetic dream the Siamerican had last week, welcoming the final month of December: From Dream visions of an alternate existence: Towering chicken legs planting present about the forest’s brush, much like a giraffes reign over awning treetops, these exotically warped bird creatures’ heads hovered [...]
One of the certainties you’re certain to encounter in Thailand, certainly and similarly likewise in the US of A, is a group, family, and/or groups of families and their respective relatives along with otherwise intimate if not dependent, unaffected acquaintances coming to gather together in mourning and memory, aiming and seeking to produce, propel, and [...]
I remember the first time I received one of those phone calls bearing bad news from a strangers mouth. Then I was just 13 when my mother had climaxed her frail body’s life span just shy of her fifty second birthday. The shocking news revealing a loved one has passed can hit you like an [...]
Here in Rangsit, Pathumthani apartment, having been given the rest of the week off due to National Emergency Decree, only half way through the first week teaching of the new School term, I’m left in solitude with just my thoughts distorted with the modern comforts of multimedia, fridgerated-cold water, air conditioning and fan to screen [...]
On the first Wednesday of the year, it was getting late. Midnight hour in the near distance, emptying the fourth pint of the golden bitter home brew, I was beginning to feel tipsy. As fluxing international circles of social oblivion blurred into illusive perspectives, internally thoughts flashed back to earlier in the day of large [...]
Alas, 2009 Wanes into its final day. As life and time march on, this cyber archive among others collects virtual dust, yearning for its shepherd to grant refreshing in freshness. Outside my window, the moon shines big & bright over lively lit concrete towers of Bangkok’s central business sectors, like shiny champagne curtaining curiosity, artificial [...]
With the end of Buddhist Lent marked by yesterday’s full moon, the sacred Naga serpent’s fireballs came firing from within the mighty Mekong river all along the Thai-Laos border—or so last night’s evening news reported to me prior to bedtime in this cozy Bangkok confines. Knowing how active my brain’s been firing on all these [...]
Now eight months married to this Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury (TBPI), I finally received a callback from the government hospital doc… Last time I was at the hospital was about the five month mark. Then it was said I’d be queued up for primary surgery on normal state–out of pocket & affordable basis–which to make [...]
Last Tuesday, the SW finally checked into the hospital to proceed with the dreaded Myelogram procedure. As expected it was quite an unpleasant procedure involving needling of the spine to inject some radioactive contrast dye to help determine/confirm the lesion site at the brachial plexus spinal roots via a CT scan. During the overnight in [...]
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