Unplugged

I recently returned from a trip to Taiwan. While I was there, for 10 days, life in Bellingham felt a year away but now that I’m back it seems like Taiwan is now just a dream within a dream. Strange how the mind works.

I enjoyed unplugging while there; not reading the news, not seeing the political banter, not understanding much of anything, being completely exposed and open. When immersed in an environment that speaks a different language you become an island unto yourself. I like that, always have. My natural inclination to flee from consensus was fed while there, by design. Being a foreigner in a homogeneous society may bother some but goddamn, I loved it.

I’m working on a write-up of the trip that I’ll post later.