10K Ocean Swim Tracker Given you lost nearly a week to illness, here's the full protocol from right now through post-swim: Now — 5:20 AM Hydration reset first. Your body is still recalibrating electrolyte balance post-illness. Start immediately: 500 ml water with electrolytes (not plain water) If you have coconut water, even better — natural sodium/potassium No coffee yet — it's a diuretic and your kidneys are still catching up Light movement only. A 15–20 min easy walk this

Thầy taught me that peace starts at 5 AM each day with mindfulness kitchen cleaning. I now learning to live intentionally with peace one breath at a time with each walking step, each brush stroke and each swim stroke within and without amidst the calmness and choppiness of the forever eternal ocean. Sharing memories of past years. Peace is never late but now.

There were only a few things that I knew about my father growing up: one is a grainy black and white picture w my grand father sitting in a sparsely furnished living room somewhere in Hà Nội Vietnam probably taken around 1975 w my three uncles my father was the oldest. His other four younger sisters were not included. The other is the name Lý Đông A an anti-communist intellectual who was killed by the Communists in 1947. My father and my mother w my sister and brother who wer

I am thinking of Gorky and the freedom that he eventually gave to painters while endured deep personal pains. I love Cezanne's brush strokes in the bathers. It took a lifetime for him to find himself so me too. Only if I could paint w Matisse's spirits of joy and happiness. Amherst gave me $1000 the summer between junior and senior year to draw the figurative sculptures at the Hirshorn museum. Looking at Degas' the dancers I realized that to truly model how skins sit on bon

Jay called me out of the blue on Friday. I was so happy to hear his voice. After Amherst the last time I saw Jay was when the Wall came down in Berlin and then after finishing my MBA in New York when I decided to not go down to Wall st to be w the big boys and started painting at the League w Frank. If Frank had watered the seed Jay planted it. No one creates alone and we all are descendants of the great Masters & Teachers of Past and Present receiving all the gifts of lo

I finally found a place where I can just sit to watch the sky water air and land merging as one so I can just breathe and watch my brush releasing the right colors that reflect how I feel so I could just be and be one as well 🤗

Today I finally got to walk on my home path. A year and a half. How did Frank know? Sometimes it takes everything to work seamlessly...

It took me 9 months before I could find a place similar to Central Park where I first learned to paint. Instead of coming via subway and walking downtown afterward via 5th ave. Now arrive in a Californian convertible and after can walk up and down forever on the most beautiful coast line. It was the energy of the streets, people buildings and noise of the city that once fueled me now it is the endless sky water and relenting waves. The search continues.

For a moment tonight I felt the possibility of swimming approximating painting as supposed to the other way around of painting...

Nature is now my teacher. It tells me where I need to be. I am its embodiment

I know the work is just starting. I long for time to just let the brush touches the surface w colors, forms, intention and then let it...

The waves were relentless today. Antony hung back I looked over and knew that he was there because of me and I was glad. In technical...

I never knew how foggy SD could get until I took a day off from work since landed. But this is what I learned winter means out here. I...

From the Powerhouse park above Del Mar beach I could see the surfers and sun worshippers dotting below in the water enjoying the last...

Ines could have given me her latest work and I would cherish and try to reach the same standard. But as my Dearest friend she, like...

I sat in my darkened car outside of Lifetime Fitness. It was almost 9 PM EST. The high school swimmers were almost done. I dreaded...

Holy is that which makes us Whole Why abstraction? My 2009 Toyota Highlander is approaching 200K miles. I gives its TLC w premium gas and oil and it gives me back the best perfornance on the road. On roadless travel, returning this rental car there will be no regrets. All the separate parts would finally meet. We are one after all. Paintings on a wall are just witnesses for a point in time. Expressing the inexpressible in an instance is why abstraction is needed. The sear

Swimming more than painting right now. The regular swimming cadence to find the same rhythm and sensation as the marks. Just have to be...

Every time I finish a workout, I open this app Athlytic on my iPhone to find my heart still beating. The clock is ticking but not now. My...

I reread Hans Hoffman book when I was deciding whether to paint again. Of all the great questions like does GOD exist? Is faith real? ...