How far ahead are your plans?Do you want friends, money, or time? You don’t have to always know where you’re going.There’s time to stop for tea and think. I did that for a long time.Once I see where to go, I keep going. Maybe I stop for tea again.Make way for the person who doesn’t know where to go.
A buddhist temple is a good place to _.Do you climb walls? Taking photos of cats, having coffee and reading Walden, walking, walking, walking.I’m glad that I got to come back and spend more time here.I got to see more of the place and met some friendly tourists and locals.I’ve got cats in my temple too.
I ______ together with others. I’m so lucky that ______ . Some wild animal was eating my sweet potato.Where crowded stools and coffee drinkers face the passing traffic.Something else that was sweet in a crowded place where strangers meet.Surprised and delighted at where I find my feet.
I am good at ___ . I don’t care about ___ . I should be living alone on a mountain.I should be doing work, but I’m watching cartoons on youtube.The sun will give you wrinkles. You should put on a hat.I should be watching cartoons alone on a mountain.
It’s not too late to ________ .I really hope that _______. I shaved off my eyebrows and painted them higher up on my forehead.I don’t know. There were signs, but I didn’t see any reason to stop.I can see the skin of my brow. How odd that I never saw it before.No going back now. Now I look surprised all the time.
On my street I hear the sounds of __________. Home is where the ______ is. On my street I hear the sounds of the school grounds. This fan is blowing on my shirt, cooling my skin, keeping away the mosquitoes. This condensed milk gives my coffee the sweetness that I like, adding more to what I like. I don’t stray very far from home. I’m staying close to my likes.
The 2 friends are drifting apart because _______. I talked about _____ with my friend. These boats are drifting down the river.I abandoned my plans, and now I’m drifting.Talking to my friends — coffee, tea, pens; that’s all I’m doing.I don’t know where I’m going.
I could ____ all day. Why do you care about learning English? you like rap? I could live a hundred years and not finish living. Every poem I finish, every time I look up from the page I see another poem. I want to be someone who knows what they’re here for. I want to do the best I can until I die.
Tell me about a stranger you remembered. Why did you remember them? What is the local noodle? Where is it found? The storm is deadly, but the swimmer is safe. Swimming like a pencil in the rain. She got carried away, but now the sun is shining on her. Swimming like a bowl of noodles, better now than before, now better on her own. She is a swimmer. She can ride the tide.
I am over the moon about _______. At night I hear the sound of ________. In-between day and night. In-between here and there. The station platform is illuminated by lamplight. In-between not yet and already. Motionless except for my passing feet. The station platform is illuminated by moonlight.