Archive for January, 2010

On Salinger

January 29th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Smoking

January 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Looking at Hanoi Architecture

January 27th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Tigers and Temples

January 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Wild Things

January 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Fun and Not-So-Fun

January 18th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Cycling Around Hanoi

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Going to the Top of Vietnam

January 12th, 2010 | 9 Comments

Hello Halong Bay

January 8th, 2010 | 4 Comments

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Andy Engelson is a writer and editor who lives in Hanoi, Vietnam. He's currently working on a novel and writing about the experience of raising a family in Vietnam. In a former life, he edited Washington Trails magazine for six years and before that wrote about art for Seattle Weekly. He hikes, he travels, he plays with his family, and he looks at stuff.

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The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the world. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every state which has risen to eminence, have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It is because the children of the empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the northern forests who were.
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. We require an infusion of hemlock spruce or arbor-vitae in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
— Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”

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