Journey to Forgiveness
My Beautiful Vietnam 2020
Vietnam in this journey from January to March 2020 has been a revelation. Some parts are tragic, like the children we met at Friendship Village in Hanoi with birth-defects related to Agent Orange. We have met other people who have been injured by landmines. Yet, today, if you will I want to focus on the …
Vietnam – HCMC Saigon – 14 January 2020 – Journey to Forgivness
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 – Today we will travel on to Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, yesterday walking around towards the downtown park and the Buddhist temple. The Buddhist temple closed so we walked around the markets in the streets. Hot city. You can see why there is global warming. Hundreds of thousands …
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The Many Tails Wagging the dog
I am on a peace arts trip to Vietnam in the first days of the new decade 2020 and the Trump administration has just assassinated Iranian General Soleimani. Whether the General was evil or a patriot is irrelevant, it was an act of war by the USA. In visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho …
I am the Vietnam Generation: Can we be the generation of contrition
by Namaya 5 Jan 2020 I am the Vietnam Generation: Generation of Witness: Can we be the Generation of Contrition? 1. Prelude: Rage! Sing the rage for the innocents. Rage! Sing the rage, and call for atonement. As rage dissolve to contrition and lead us home to love. The Dharma is not war, …
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Journey to Forgiveness: Then and Now
Welcome to my first blog post on “Journey to Forgiveness.” I, Namaya, have been invited to Vietnam to undertake an art residency at the New Space Arts Foundation to do an art/writing/ photography residency entitled “Journey to Forgiveness”. With my creative partner, Zoe Kopp, we will spend the beginning of January exploring Vietnam and considering the impact …