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Tranquility, Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi

A quiet spot in a big city.

It is the most famous city lake in Hanoi, Hoan Kiem Lake, and it offers peace too. Even if the rest of the area is bustling with activity in the evening.

The city lake of Hanoi are one of my favorites in Asia, particular in the evening when people are using it as a social arena. Both by locals and visitors. It is a place to meet, greet, eat and drink, and to read, quietly observe or seeking inner peace. The park and the lake is big enough even for rather peaceful activities.

The area around the lake is already used for morning classes and individuals doing Tai Chi.

And now meditating people is adding to their numbers mornings and evening.

The concept of meditating in public spots has been on the rise the later years, according to local media.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/trend/vietnamese-take-increasingly-to-navel-gazing-4201820.html

Hogan Kiem Lake is a must visit in the center of classic Hanoi, the capital of modern Viet Nam. Both day and evening.


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And if the night is burning
I will cover my eyes
For if the dark returns
Then my brothers will die
And as the sky is falling down
It crashed into this lonely town
And with that shadow upon the ground
I hear my people screaming out

Now I see fire
Inside the mountain
And I see fire
Burning the trees
And I see fire
Hollowing souls
And I see fire
Blood in the breeze
And I hope that you remember me
Ed Sheeran - I See Fire

Outfit is made by me with #vegan and #recycled materials.

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@breadandcircuses

A bit optimistic, perhaps.

For a dozen and a half years, 2035 seemed the worrisome date, but of late I can't extrapolate any societal effect curves in ways that help me see how we get even that far. People shouldn't get too comfortable with this far out dates that seem to anchor the conversation safely in the future. Even my mention of 2035 is not intended to suggest that's a good anchor date.

Especially with the accelerant we've this week poured on the fire in the US, destroying progress, reversing course, undercutting safety nets.

People will differ on this, but I don't think individual protesting in the US will help because I think this administration is looking for an excuse to declare martial law and to have something they can point to and characterize as dangerous as part of bootstrapping dictatorship. I'm told this is how it's been done elsewhere.

But I do think there are intact legal processes that need to be used. I do think that the people now in office are nervous about this and that pleas from constituents can still affect things. I think slowing the onset of dictatorship long enough to get to the midterm elections (2 years out) in the US and possibly create a legal roadblock is our best bet. It's a long ways off, and I'm not for a moment suggesting physics is willing to hold itself up waiting for process to run. But I think the climate science is not the issue at this point. It's all about politics.

I will say also that not that many days or weeks or months ago, depending on where you count from, but not long, all this stuff in the US was just so much academic talk. And today it is reality for many of us. There's an analogy to be made with Climate. It all seems academic right now, but soon enough the fires of LA won't seem like isolated events. For many around the world who don't control the media focus, it already is reality.

In the Asimov & Silverberg novel Nightfall (not the short story), after a big global cataclysm (which I think is not a spoiler since the story is about the how, not the what), a psychologist named Sheerin who'd predicted social chaos says later, looking back:

«"It's one thing to predict it. It's something else to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing, Theremon, for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality. I was so glib, so blithely unconcerned. 'Tomorrow there won't be a city standing unharmed in all [the world]' I said, and it was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract. 'The end of the world you used to live in.' Yes. Yes." Sheerin shivered. "And it all happened, just like I said. But I suppose I didn't really believe my own dire predictions, until everything came crashing down around me.»

We all talk about what's coming but we aren't going to really be able to hear ourselves until it happens. And then we're going to be horrified beyond imagination and wonder why we didn't do more.

To lighten the mood slightly, and only slightly, I'll end by noting I'm also reminded of a parody movie poster from decades ago that showed then British-PM Thatcher in then-President-and-former-movie-star Reagan's arms and bore the caption "She promised to follow him to the end of the earth. He promised to organise it!" The concern at the time was nuclear war, which seems almost a quaintly simple concern at this point. This is the sequel that never should have been made.

archives.victoria.ac.nz/reposi

(There's a color version at reddit.com/media?url=https%3A% as well. I wish I knew who owned the IP to find out the license restrictions or I'd have included the image more directly.)

After seeing the preview of the 2nd edition of #PARKS, I realized a few things: 1. I definitely like the first edition aesthetic more than what I've seen of 2nd ed and 2.) It's been a while since we played and I think my 9 YO would enjoy this now.

So, we played it three player tonight, adding both #Nightfall and #Wildlife expansions. She ended up loving it and only failed to come in first by a single point.

#BoardGames #BoardGame #TableTop #Gaming #Games #TableTopGaming

After seeing the preview of the 2nd edition of #PARKS, I realized a few things: 1. I definitely like the first edition aesthetic more than what I've seen of 2nd ed and 2.) It's been a while since we played and I think my 9 YO would enjoy this now.

So, we played it three player tonight, adding both #Nightfall and #Wildlife expansions. She ended up loving it and only failed to come in first by a single point.