Images of Eyelids

January 26 2010

We started our day with breakfast and some tanning. What is funny is that so much of today was based about blind visual images committed to memory, and for today I have no actual images to show for our day. What is so gorgeous about our new location is made from the wind. It’s choppy and fast and angry, and makes fantastic choppy waves that are perfect for kite boarding, of which there is a lot: little people gliding on top of the water, using a large kite to direct and power their journeys in large zig zags across the bays. it reminds me of what people describe about ponds in central parks, the children in little khaki shorts and sailor hats and boat shoes controlling their little boats with while sails across the pond water, except, this is a much bigger and raw experience as the sun burns your eyes from water reflections and the sun bakes your skin on the shore.

my favorite is being so conscious of the sun through my red eyelids, watching the sun blindly wander through clouds, trying to predict when it would come back from behind a dense puff, waiting for the burst of light that sometimes made me think, could this be the second coming of Christ revealed behind my closed eyelids? ...until the sky turned blue and the winds angry, pelting us with grains of sand, dried seaweed and abandoned water bottles. We ran to our bungalow as it rained. It is a slow day, reading, blogging and relaxing until our adventure into town for the evening market...

--which was awesome!! We found a couple of bookstores where, as usual, we spent more than an hour perusing all these sacred treasures of thought and story. It feels so good to be back to reading novellas instead of textbook. The new books we picked up were actually a steal as the owner told us he had a bookstore in Bangkok and the books on the outside, the ones we wanted, had experienced a blanket of soot on their top spines when a fire took place above his shop, so everything was moved to ko phangan...

Then we ate locally from street vendors and sat outside in the warm dark blue atmosphere. We had grilled corn on the cob, a shish of chicken, a small bowl of noodles and egg rolls...and Chang! A local beer that is advertised EVERYWHERE. Turns out, it tastes just like keystone. Well, glad that curiosity is smothered. After 3 weeks in Thailand I couldn’t stand it anymore as I saw countless others suck down legitimate fresh smoothies. So I had one. With fresh bananas, strawberries, coconut and watermelon. So far, I have not gotten sick from consuming local ice water... but it was absolutely delicious.