Thursday coffee and ideas
Today I had other desires for coffee. I would have walked to this place I have not been for some time. Enjoyed the morning with their $1 iced americano. Thought and wrote and read some. Lately I’ve been enjoying Current Reader a lot. Its delivery of news suits how I want to read. I don’t particularly want to be told counts of read and unread. I want to just read.
Today I would have done that. Then I would have not done the breakfast with my wife at the place and I would have missed seeing my friend Sean at my usual coffee haunt. We ended up visiting for another hour just talking. That felt really good. It’s hard to find expats I wish to spend time with here. Being able to just talk meant a lot.
I could have easily missed out on the disappointing breakfast but then would not have gone to Noi cafe either.
So now it will be Thursday. And I will get back the thing I wanted for today. I’ll go and write and sip the iced americano and watch people. It’s what coffee shops are for I figure. I’ll bring you along and you can vicariously join in. No livestreams. Just blog posts.
Thursday for coffee
And here it is. Morning for coffee at the house first. I like the first thing coffee to listen to some music and just go to whatever place. I’ve been leaving earlier these days so today will venture out by 730am. To walk to the place I’d like to go takes this much time. Or maybe that much time. There are various ways to get there and I never know until I actually do the deed.
It’s also easy to just change. So empowered by that, I do. Summer Coffee is too tantalizing and comfortable inside. And I like both.
There are some so-called influencers or vloggers or whatever. Many do daily vlogs about their lives in Cambodia. Sean does something a bit different. There’s a sense of some moment reached here where your brain bucket gets somehow rewired. You learn how to deal with the same same and the different. Supposedly with some acceptance and gratitude. I believe some of it. When I left there was no way I wanted that life in California again. I did not know what life I would get to. Most of whatever real change happened years ago. Living in Vietnam during the pandemic and before was instrumental. Cambodia seems like an add on to that. I have my wife here which makes a lot of life easier.
The manager here stopped by to welcome me. She’s Khmer but worked three years in Oman. So her English is very nice. This place really is the mix of Cambodia and western styles. Very nice yet this feel of what Siem Reap does best. Welcoming people to visit and live.
I’m ready to sign off. My coffee sits and I have tea to drink. My time slips by this morning. See you down my road.
