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Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #2296648
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibimbap

พีบิมบับ (pheebimbap)

At home in Thailand we do something similar. At home, we make rice and top it with whatever we didn't finish from the last meal.

I finally decided to use June 2022's entries for my responses to other bloggers' entries. I tend to do this daily anyways and post in my weekly 'catch-all' blog (added to every day} "Porthole.

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June 20, 2023 at 12:13pm
June 20, 2023 at 12:13pm
#1051376
Solstice Eve — Solstice Adam?

Yeah... how many solstices have I been through? How many lives? In this life? 143. And am I more yin or yang? *Yinyang* We all fit on the spectrum somewhere. I can sparkle a bit in Thailand; but, I miss the diversity I have experienced elsewhere.

To Angie: "I'm old enough to have felt recycled a few times. I wrote about living in inner city neighborhoods "Juneteenth but I'm not satisfied with the results. Too rambling. Too unfocused.

Thailand will 'heal me or break me' or so they say. It's just wearing me out. Just another place that tourists claim to be Paradise. It isn't. The daily mundane blah of it all grinds me down. There has been some recent progress; but, it's not enough.

Anyhoo... thanks for the badge. *Hearto*"


Merit Badge in Juneteenth
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  I'm glad you're here, Kåre.
Things will get better and they'll get worse.
At least we know they'll keep changing.
Best,
Angie/buddhangela

Ah... 1988... mostly gone. I had head injuries from a car accident (mine was totaled) at the same corner I was beaten with a chain in 1986. Both were also on Labor Day weekend. Ended up in the same hospital. I was in my 30s. I suspect the head injuries did more damage than I realized.

To Sum1's In San Francisco Jim: "So... you have adult kids by now... 35 plus... 4? 6?

So if this were 1988 I have no memories of that year (car accident).

Petra reminded me of her contest and I should enter 'just because'. So many ways I could approach this. You chose 'memories'. I have too many. Even my entry on "Juneteenth" was hard to write (because I wasn't focused and I was avoiding certain images that kept coming to mind). It rambles and I'm not happy with it.

Your response was easy to read and to-the-point. I should emulate your style."


I was frightened of dying in a car crash until I was sandwiched. Then... the fear went away. But I was never afraid of damnation. I don't believe in the black/white dichotomy of good versus evil common in America. I bite my tongue on bookface and here on WdC. I don't join exclusive clubs.

To Harlow Flick, Right Fielder Harlow: "I don't believe in the literal Heaven/Hell dichotomy so popular among certain sects of Abrahamic religions and I'm opposed to using it as a cudgel of control and obedience. I grew up among German-Americans who were brutal in this respect. No respect for diversity. Big on judgement. Adverse to tolerance.

The Baha'i Faith teacher that our Soul comes from God and returns to God (kinda like a library loan). The body returns to dust. Here in Thailand Theravada Buddhism has rituals but death isn't to be feared. It's the fear that is used to control imho.

However... Anxiety-Depression is my hyphenated middle name. I use Liam here in Thailand. Eternity? Not in this body! Consciousness? That would be interesting. But we have books and songs for that. The handed-down (written or oral) thoughts of the Ancients still surround us like water."


Mundane matters! I love weather, especially storms. They energize me. As does trying new foods or new combinations of old standbys. I'm not as easily bored as most people. A fallen leaf can inspire me. And quirky combinations of words? Why not!

To TJ: "This literally happens! Especially in the SouthWest US where rains can be sudden and brutal and flood downriver where it's sunny and dry on high banks and mud on the flats."


To Whirls : "Every time I cook it's an original dish. I don't follow recipes and even if I did the results would be unique. I prefer variety. Even though the ingredients may be found everywhere the combination is inspired by that moment.

Want the same-o same-o? Go directly to McDonald's... do not stop at a bank along the way.

So... no... your word salad is gathered and tossed. It's the combination that is a part of you, vomited on the page."


~640 words

For June blog contest.

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