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Greetings and salvations everybody. This is James Newcomb coming into your ear balls, and it's a lovely Friday morning here in eco park, just on the outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. And there's something special about how the Vietnamese folks do their mornings. It's very deliberate and very intensive. And as I go on my morning walk, I want to share some of the observations I've made about the Vietnamese people and how they approach their mornings and how it contributes to them.

Quite frankly, being a rather happy bunch of people.

So I'm not saying it's good. I'm not saying it's bad. It is what it is. Maybe they're just conditioned from the time that they are young children to just never questioned authority. And that's why it is that could very well be what the cause of this is, but I'm just calling it the way I see it.

So getting back to my observations about the mornings and how the Vietnamese. Approach their mornings. You walk outside of your apartment and this is here in eco park. It's not Hanoi, which is a huge, massive city. It's this is busy, but it's not Hanoi busy. It's very Placid by comparison, but you get outside and people are very intentional about.

How they, what they do in the morning. People biking all over the place. Just all over thousands. I don't know about thousands, but hundreds of people on their bikes. First thing in the morning, six o'clock in the morning, they're going up for their morning bike ride. Another cool thing that I really enjoy.

And just walking by, is people doing Tai Chi in the morning? I don't know if it's a Tai Chi or Qigong. I don't know exactly what it is, but they have, somebody will have a speaker, a wifi speaker outside, and they're hooked it up to their iPhone or whatever it is. And they've got this soothing music going and they're doing these movements.

They have their mats. They're bamboo mats on the, usually on the grass or the sidewalk. And it's commonplace. It's not like it's not anything that is out of the ordinary is very much part of the ordinary.

Now here in eco park there, as the name might suggest, there are a lot of lakes. There are a lot of trees, a lot of flowers. It's eco park, and it's a beautiful place. And you can hear a little bit of traffic going by but the Vietnamese people have a love of nature. They love nature and appreciate it.

This is a beautiful serene setting, and we're just going to enjoy it and appreciate it. It goes deeper than that in my experience. And in my observations, people have a deep connection with nature and you often see people doing. Out for a walk, just enjoying nature and connecting with nature on a deep spiritual level.

So these are a couple of my observations about how the Vietnamese people approach their morning. And this is something that I've enjoyed. For the better part of going on three years, I've been here in the last two and a half years. I've been here 60% of the time. I did the math the other day. And so it's just a, it's a lovely place to be.

And so if you're wondering what it's like to live in a overtly communist society, it's not Stalinist Russia. I will say that. I'm not going to say that it doesn't have it to. It most certainly does, but it does have its merit and part of what makes it, not just tolerable, but rather pleasant is this intentional and mindful approach and way that people do their mornings.

It's very deliberate. It's very intentional. And it's something that I appreciate very much and have learned a lot. In my time, living here. Thank you for listening.

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