On This Beautiful Path I Walk in Peace

JULES | 22 | USA | THAILAND

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Lawn working novice monks, preparing their temple for Laos new year. April 2015. Vientiane, Laos. 35mm film.

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Beautiful Bodhi Trees of Buddhist Temples. Vientiane, Laos. 35mm/film/pentaxk1000

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Scenes from Ayutthaya, Thailand. UNESCO World heritage site. Those beautiful yellow blossoming trees at the top made my heart swell every time.

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This kid just got a huge ass coke slurpee at 7-eleven, and is straight chillin sipping on that shit like the most ultimate g on the back of his moms motorcai. His bro looks pissed because they had been happily sharing the slurpee just a few moments before. 35mm/film/pentaxk1000 Thailand would be nothing without 7eleven

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Flower offerings for the Buddha in Ayutthaya, Thailand. 35mm/film/pentaxk1000

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Peering. Khao Lak, Thailand, 35mm Color negative 400

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Silom Soi Pradit nanner kitty. After work.

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I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

Lee Krasner  (via wordsnquotes)

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Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything. When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that—to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.

François Arnaud, for Interview Magazine

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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Milan Kundera, Identity

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Tonsai sun

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....can't take the Vermont out of the girl. 420, 2015. Tonsai.

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My time spent in Tonsai mostly consisted of waking up (really hot) because the sun was beaming in my bungalow. I had to keep the shades open in the bungalow to get the absolute most of the very little amount of breeze that was coming up through the jungle. Every night, sometime after 2am, all electricity would shut off, including my cleaving fan, which I could barely feel anyways through the mosquito net. I would wake up, lather on sunscreen, twist up some splits, and head straight down to the water where I would swim for the entirety of high-tide. In and out of the water for about 4 hours each morning, before the tide quickly rolled out and the beach turned into about 150 yards of rocks. Beside me, little Thai kids happily splashing around near the shore on the same boat day after day. Then I would go visit my friend Lice who worked at one of the restaurants on the beach, and chill there while we just smiled at each other, and made the little jokes that we could to each other that we would both understand. Giggling away into the afternoon, sipping fruit shakes and eating prawns. Painting, smoking too. Explaining 420, and getting really sleepy. Everyone so stoked on climbing all around me. With sounds of clipping bolies and ropes swinging in the distance, amongst busy long tail boats and breezy waves.

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Low tide crabs made the most beautiful little creations digging themselves deeper into the sand.

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Tonsai Beach, Krabi, Thailand

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Painting of the cute little South Africa bungalow in Tonsai Beach, Krabi, Thailand. Watercolor. 20 April 2015.

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My Bangkok. Love going on sporadic weekend trips, leaving the city often to find myself completely submerged in nature, but there's always such a warm feeling about returning home to Bangkok, too. A huge sigh of comfort and relief is good in small doses when it seems like you're always on the go.