Month: November 2019

Mountain, Water, Coffee: Tara Coffee on the Road to Samoeng, Chiang Mai

The Chinese have a word for their dreamy landscape paintings: Shan Shui 山水 – “Mountain Water”. These landscapes are often graced by wistful poems for nostalgic travelers, such as this one: 今曉日兼雨  This morning there was sun and rain, 土芳當腳髒  The earth is fragrant, and it’s fitting that my feet are dirty. 故鄉隔天末  My home’s beyond the edge of

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