Yesterday morning was a beautiful day at the beach and I was marvelling at the sheer amount of diversity at the national park. A group of Thai boys unloaded from a songthaew in the parking lot. Some swam in the water while several nearby me and my husband were trying to dig up sand crabs as a headmaster/teacher looked on. They all looked to be about 7 or 8 years old, so it was a single perhaps second grade class most likely on a field trip.
I heard the trotting of horses hooves in the sand and saw the blond haired woman posting as she rode in front of us. The English saddle and snaffle bit seemed a bit out of place on the beach. A man rode a regal but small black horse behind her. I puzzled over the breed of that one. It didn’t have the dished profile of an Arabian, but what kind of horse was it?
The woman pulled her horse back into a tight prance as she maneuvered between the boys digging up sand crabs and those swimming in the water. She cut it a bit too close, in my mind, giving herself only perhaps 15 feet either way, but I understood that she was an equestrian type trying to train her horse to not spook for either waves or people. She and the man on the black horse both cut a turnaround onto the grass.
Deep contrasts of this type are a daily experience here. Two white men carrying surfboards, chatting in what sounds like Australian English, pass by a large Muslim family with the women donning black burkas. The burka thing is usually people from Saudi Arabia or Oman or Qatar or Kuwait, I think in my head. Multi colored hijabs are more standard among the Malaysians. Ka asks where they are from and they answer Phuket! So I was wrong here.
A man with a British accent, Manchester is my best guess, thinks he is in trouble with the Royal Family for “squawking like a bird.”
“That’s a serious offense here.” I offered as a reply.
“Oh now don’t say that” He laughed. Then he starts talking about channelling. He said Princess Diana and Mike Tyson talk to him sometimes.
“I was not aware that Mike Tyson was dead.” I told him. Did I miss that one? (no, I did not: Tyson appears alive and well based on Google anyways). With the British man’s talk of Princess Diana I begin to wonder what Royal Family he thinks he’s in trouble with. Alas, only my poor family channels to me. I suppose the living do reach out as well, though, so that was a nice reminder of the interconnection between time and space and even that issue we call death.
Okay speed dating questions. What is the Covid vaccine? Do you think we are ruled by reptilians? Is it weather modification or climate change or none of the above?
Do you think she is fat?
A few afternoons ago some farang were swimming despite the clear red flags. I watched them in amazement, knowing as I did that coral reefs were only a few feet of water below them and that the area was now filled with very painful black sea urchins. Days before me and my husband went out on low tide high moon and some Thai person, perhaps from the national park, was picking out sea urchins with tongs and putting them in a bag.
“You eating this?” An Italian accented woman asked the man in English. I’d been wondering the same thing. Perhaps you could take out the nasty poison spikes on sea urchin and just like prickly pear cactus you’d be left with some yummy goodness somehow.
“No no.” The man said. “Don’t eat. Just take out for keep safe.”
I heard the family swimming on the beach talking in Russian language. I shook my head. Russians rarely understood English even if I tried to warn them about the sea urchins. Are red flags on the beach not an international thing?
Mom opened my mail in ballot for me and read some of the contests. I’m sad Jill Stein is not on the Nevada ballot Presidential choice, again. Dina Titus is up for reelection. It might be a good time to mention our five year limbo in paradise aka the seemingly neverending visa saga to get my husband to America.
Or perhaps it’s time to swim and not worry about the creatures below. But by the grace of God we live.
Let me know when the election is over…
Can we agree that 'the cabal' is quite good at both genocide and also killing specific people? So, I can only logically surmise that if they REALLY needed Trump dead, he would be quite dead. Draw your own conclusions.
Great memes, and bless you, Amy.