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With Father’s Day coming up, I wanted to share a special story about one of my dad’s routine. Whenever I visit, my dad would always bring me a Vietnamese Iced Coffee after he returns from the gym every morning at 11 am.
Like most other travel photographers and filmmakers, I’ve been grounded for the last couple of months, while the world tries to move forward in daily changing ways.
My first Ragnar Relay was on a team with a group of mostly strangers. I came in with very little expectation, but wanted to break the ice and engage with everyone, so I decided that morning of the race to do a lip-sync video.
“Goedemorgen” means Good Morning in Dutch and is the title to a short musing video that I captured on my morning walk through Amsterdam a few months ago.
There’s a beautiful lecture by famed philosopher Alan Watts called “Willing To Die” where he talks about embracing death when it comes and understanding the seasonal nature of life and our own existence.
For all that we obsess with time, we simply cannot slow it down. And so seconds tick away, minutes become hours and years pass so quickly, it might as well have been just an instance.
