It rained a little bit last night. If I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay up almost all night, I would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never known. I contemplated the idea that real art has no purpose, no function, but a rapture to take one into a space, a void between thoughts. The whole debate about what purpose came up again and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to come up with an answer no matter where I go.<\/p>\n
Up early to catch the morning clouds. I like the look of them rising over the mountain top. The village on the slope though never caught the light I hoped to see. Down the road, the water-logged rice paddies reflected the sunlight above, traversing the ever-changing clouds.<\/p>\n
I thought Ah-Che had already left for the market in town so I played by the river, filming the water, the bridge. when I was able to leave, I met him coming down my way. So I made him walk the bridge while I filmed from below, and we caught a moto-taxi together so I could film him riding into town. If everything I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve filmed so far leave him in centuries back, this short ten minutes ride will bring him right into a world of cell phones, fashion boutiques, and internet cafes.<\/p>\n
We stopped at the bustling market place. Villagers from the mountain come down to the town market every five days. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the chance to trade and meet. Ah-Che got his usual spot with other knife sellers.<\/p>\n
Even though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the high season for selling knives (mostly people need it before the firewood cutting season around winter months), Ah-Che got three sold in a couple of hours. He obviously looked happy. Other knife-selllers were not that lucky.<\/p>\n
When he was done for the day and chose to walk the around five miles road back home, I browsed the market too, one of my favorite activities in these small towns.
\nTomorrow, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll finish the rest of the lute and then story-telling and music playing for the week ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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