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.
If humans could be
that intensely whole, undistracted, unhurried,
swift from sheer
unswerving impetus! If we could blossom
out of ourselves, giving
nothing imperfect, withholding nothing!
— Denise Levertov, “The Métier of Blossoming”