"Awareness is Learning to Keep Yourself Company"-Geneen Roth

This one's a placeholder until I get my photos organized to show off many forms of water I got to look at.

On November 3rd, I woke up at SJs apartment with a stiff neck that kept getting worse and worse and I decided to get acupuncture! This clinic was recommended by one of SJ's dog friends and had two locations, one a few blocks away. I walked out through the bustling market and across the intersection. I used google translate (feeling only a slight flashback to my confusion at the pediatrics clinic when I was trying to find my visceral manipuation course) to request an appointme

Exiting the train station in Wanhua, I put my rain cape over myself and my backpack, swapped into my sandals because there was no way my feet were staying dry, and marched through the wet and windy streets. Taiwan has a lot of nigh time activitiy becuase it is warm and safe all night, but the streets were empty of cars, motorbikes, and people. The occasional ambulance or bus came by, with bright lights flaring. The night was quiet except for the sound of the rain and wind, an

We rode in her sister's car down the coast, the bold sun so huge in my right eye. Wendy rotated a specifically-designed, padded polyester sunshade extender to shield her vision in the driver's seat while still blocking more of the sun's shadows. Wendy told me, in clear and brief sentences, that Leukang is somewhat of a historical preservation, keeping the look and feel of an old main street with the low, double-doored shops and workshops. This area used to be the largest city

I settled into my room at HUB hotel- comfortable, spacious, quiet, and with a window into a central plaza. I enjoyed my gluttonous walk...

First, a note about pronunciation- especially with place names, things in Taiwan were not as I thought they were. Much of this suprirse...