Can’t say it was just the vibrant history, ancient culture and pervasive religion that I found so overwhelmingly attractive. Nearly stunned with amazement at every turn Thailand was instantly a part of my composition for better and for worse… like a pre-arranged marriage I had little choice as I was consumed by it all and carry the memory at the front of my thinking.

I believe I could live there for a spell… Thailand makes me wish life were longer.. or that I could do it again.. so I would have time to have both lives.

I guess it’s like that… maybe if I didn’t have such a full and rich life and have so many good and healthy life experiences, I would pack up a few essentials and go to Thailand in a heartbeat.. and never look back because I would have found home.

I truly felt a sense of home while I was there and even today it’s difficult to understand other than to believe in past lives… or a interconnectedness of all. How else could someone born of German and English decent in Manhattan, raised in a sheltered conservative American town on the opposite side of the globe walk off an airplane in Bangkok and fully know and realize on a personal level, that he was comfortably home?

So here we are 18 months later. Just yesterday I had a new Thai dish that was better than ever. I thought… I can’t imagine eating Thai food every meal. I couldn’t do without Captain Crunch and Sugar Pops.

I was with a Thai girl for a while and she was always spicing things up with too many ingredients. Like my simple 3 eggs and 2 slices of cheese omelet which I love that quickly became the base of some wild mess, turning shades of red and green and tasting like Thai food.

I’m glad of my diversity, being able to enjoy Raisin Bran and then Pad Kra Prow with equal enthusiasm. I need them both. Most of all, I think I want a Thai girlfriend though I’ve put no effort into meeting anyone for ages. (… the rest of my life wouldn’t be long enough to praise her inherit beauty let alone merge our conditioning from opposite end of the world.) I know it’s true when I travel the world and still gravitate toward Asian eyes. They say the eyes are the window to the soul… That’s good because one of my friends has such dark eyes I don’t really see much when I stare. lol. How will I find… not worried since if it’s meant to be it will happen no matter where I am physically located. I haven’t prayed for anything since my father was in a coma from a heart attack. He did miraculously recover. I wonder if I owe The Great Mysterious for that?

Work is good, I bought a new house in the mountains as a home improvement project. I have to fly there. That vacation area is a separate world from New York City so I don’t dare imagine how foreign it would be to a Thai visitor… though I welcome you to visit me when you come to America.

Good fortune to you all and good luck holding a perspective that keeps you happy, healthy and wealthy.