tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post1975011385200997786..comments2023-09-24T14:04:22.128-07:00Comments on Tone Deaf in Thailand: Seeing What You Choose to SeeJanet Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213363229927571063noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-16806939232869241912008-10-30T00:56:00.000-07:002008-10-30T00:56:00.000-07:00Oops--sweep of stars, not stare--sorry, Matt!Oops--sweep of stars, not stare--sorry, Matt!Janet Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213363229927571063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-81086873815501098572008-10-30T00:11:00.000-07:002008-10-30T00:11:00.000-07:00I love flowers. It's funny because I fell in love...I love flowers. It's funny because I fell in love with them when I began to take pictures and look at photographs of them. I am glad that you are sharing the beauty and the chaos around you.<BR/><BR/>Matt, I love Tucson. Just fell in love with it when I went. Yes, the city part I saw looked like parts of Tacoma to me, but the desert. I love the desert.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042282615566928702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-56545651952629389922008-10-29T21:03:00.000-07:002008-10-29T21:03:00.000-07:00Oh, Matt--I'm so sorry! But I hope I let you know ...Oh, Matt--I'm so sorry! But I hope I let you know at that time that when you took me out of the city to see the unobstructed sweep of stare, that was one of the most beautiful and humbling things I had ever seen anywhere and is what I think of when I remember Tucson.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13582078854611094081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-57098251300572118472008-10-29T10:45:00.000-07:002008-10-29T10:45:00.000-07:00"...after a couple of weeks I begin to notice smal..."...after a couple of weeks I begin to notice small splashes of color and beauty in the middle of what at first seems relentless ugliness."<BR/><BR/>So you DO understand what I see in Tucson! There really is a lot more to that place than just dirt, parking lots and a hundred different shades of brown, punctuated by endless cacti and palm trees.<BR/><BR/>By the time you came to visit, I was so aware of all of Tucson's hidden beauty that I was shocked when you didn't seem to notice it. Then I went back after spending a year in the Pacific Northwest and I had to learn to appreciate it all over again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-22644219886918568672008-10-29T06:28:00.000-07:002008-10-29T06:28:00.000-07:00That is such a Bangkok memory--that unexpected bea...That is such a Bangkok memory--that unexpected beauty that catches you by surprise. I envy you being here in 1993--I didn't arrive until two years later and politically at least it was very different.<BR/>Thank you for that image, Katia.Janet Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213363229927571063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903790326524464926.post-84593695151830859272008-10-29T01:18:00.000-07:002008-10-29T01:18:00.000-07:00I was in Bangkok in 1993 and I imagine the city ha...I was in Bangkok in 1993 and I imagine the city has changed quite a bit, since that time, but there is one thing that I remember vividly : I'd be wandering, ambling in small lanes - is this what you call soi? - and suddenly find myself in front of a gorgeous little temple. Don't ask : this is what your post brought back for me :)Katiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01423190518569699882noreply@blogger.com