journal

[asakiyume]

I'm moving around some diaries I wrote, and I started reading the one I kept in Timor-Leste, and it's full of details that of course I'd completely forgotten. THANK YOU, past me, for writing things down!

Like this:

"More notes I made from the early morning in Dili: lettuce and other greens on the roofs of taxis; at one place where we waited, a little boy shooting tiny rubber bands through a gate at sparrows."

Or this from the bus from Ainaro back to Dili:

"Across the aisle from us, someone had a rooster, a hen, and some chicks shoved underneath the seat. I don't think they were in a cage, and yet they didn't flutter all over, but sometimes the rooster would crow, and the chicks would cheep."

Comments

[sonia]

Thank you for the word-pictures, and the movie-pictures in the previous post!

[asakiyume]

You're very welcome! Thanks for giving someone to share the memories with ^_^

[amaebi]

Having the lettuce atop taxis probably helps to keep it safe from chickens....

[asakiyume]

Good point ^_^

[mallorys_camera]

You went to Timor?

Wow!

[asakiyume]

Yeah, that's the main reason I'm learning Tetun (the lingua franca spoken there) now! I went in 2013--the entries are tagged East Timor, mainly. My interest started out as story research for Pen Pal but developed into an affection for the country in its own right.

[mallorys_camera]

Wow! I will definitely check out those entries.

[osprey_archer]

I suspect the taxis were transporting heads of lettuce etc, but initially I envisioned taxis with tiny little gardens on top.

[asakiyume]

That would make *such* a delightful picture. "Greening the city, one taxi at a time"

[minoanmiss]

I love that about past journals, like an external memory.

[asakiyume]

The way memories fade, you have the structure of them, but all the vibrant details go--at least, that's how it is for me--so discovering these and recovering the details is just such a joy.

[sovay]

"More notes I made from the early morning in Dili: lettuce and other greens on the roofs of taxis; at one place where we waited, a little boy shooting tiny rubber bands through a gate at sparrows."

I'm so glad you wrote these things down, too.

[asakiyume]

I try to do this whenever I travel. I'm always so, so happy to have the record.

[sartorias]

The taxi greens! That alone made my day.

[asakiyume]

^_^

osprey_archer had a nice imagining of little gardens growing on top of the taxis, which is a great extrapolation!

[sartorias]

LOL!