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Still Going: Notes from a life in progress

David Watts Barton

Personal essays on desire, creativity, travel and the view from 70.

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Notes from a Hermitage

And this is at the grocery store! I’m sticking with the yoghurt.

Back in Saigon, and rainy season is finally living up to its name after a couple of months that were more windy than rainy. But either way, it’s (relatively) cool, which is...

5 days ago
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Return to Paradise

I last came to Bali 1991, the entire second half of my life ago. So far.

And the place, as I feared – as I knew – has changed enormously. Then again, so have I. Fair’s fair.

I decided to base myself again in the belly of the beast, the cu...

18 days ago
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Different How?

I have long claimed that I “don’t get writer’s block.” As a lifelong journalist, that was simply unaffordable.

But there are other kinds of blockages. And the bottom line can be the same: A month without a post.

I don’t have a great exp...

a month ago
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I Hate Saying My Age

I’m just back from a bike ride with a friend through the apple and cherry groves of Luberon, the area of southern France just east of Avignon, and not far from the edge of Provence.

I landed here at the invitation of my new Camino friend...

2 months ago
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A Little City, A Little Country

It’s been a week since I called the end of my Camino Mozarabe, a couple of weeks prematurely, and I have to say: Genius move. If I do say so myself.

I’m now sat on the upstairs balcony of my friend’s Anna and Marco’s place in the French co...

2 months ago
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  • David Watts Barton

    Journalist, diarist, and singer/songwriter David Watts Barton posts about the people, places and ideas he encounters on his travels from his home base in Ho Chi Minh City. Albums on Spotify; book, Japan From Anime to Zen, on Amazon.com.

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