china

just over a week and i will be on a plane flying to china. i feel no sadness at leaving the states. after all, what am i leaving? the things most important to me are coming along--my wife, my thoughts--and i can always find my lost red book. plenty of pages to fill before i get back stateside in early july.

china. as a child it seemed so distant, far away. as an adult it seems even more so. removed from my experience as a middle-class suburbanite. separate from the freedoms available to american citizens. but soon it will be neither far away nor mythical. it will be reality.

here, i will cease to exist. there, i will take root and grow. china. land of possibility.