Viet Nam 9000 — Stamp Of Approval, postcard from ybonesy, Saigon to Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
After a long day at work, I opened the mouth of the black mailbox this afternoon to find ybonesy’s beautiful postcard. It is dated 2 Sept 08 and postmarked 05-09-2008. I guess that means it took 16 days and nights to float from ybonesy’s hand in Saigon to a little white cottage just outside Minneapolis.
Thanks, ybonesy. You made my day. I’m bananas for you, friend!
Postcard From Vietnam, Woman Rides A Cycle In Ho Chi Minh City,
original photographer © Radhika Chalasani, photo of postcard
© 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, September 18th, 2008
-related to posts: The Dying Art Of Letter Writing (Postcards From The Edge), Thank You For Keeping An Eye On Me, Mary
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Woo-hoo! It arrived! That’s so cool.
And guess whose else’s arrived? Jim, Em, and Dee all got their postcards either yesterday or today. We didn’t pick up the mail from the post office until today, and it contained mail since yesterday.
Wow, amazing that they arrived to MN and NM right around the same day. I left them all with the concierge (I love saying that word) at the hotel the morning I left. Maybe I’ll post the ones we got here, too, just for the fun of it.
Thanks so much for inspiring me to send postcards with your post about the Dying Art of Letter Writing. It is a new tradition, for sure!
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p.s., I loved the stamps. Noodles. Pho. I’m not sure what the right accent mark is over the o. Yum. Vietnamese eat very healthy foods.
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Wow, that’s amazing. Arrival in NM and MN within days. That’s pretty cool. Oh, the Pho is noodles. Do you know what the bo is.
And yb, what is the currency there, the 9000, then the symbol. Just curious.
The postcard is really fun. The woman has a beautiful and kind face.
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Oh, thanks to my Uncle Jack, the real inspiration behind the The Dying Art of Letter Writing post. It’s another example of how people continue to move us from beyond the grave.
And to breathepeace, who planted the seed with her own amazing postcard practice. Thank you.
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QM, the currency is dong (or VND), but I’ve linked it to Wikipedia (LINK) so you can see the characters, which, if I were doing a post and not a comment I could create with HTML code. (WP’s Comment editor is limited in terms of what code it allows.)
Let’s see if I can remember this. One US dollar is about 16800 VND. So, 9000 VND would have been a little over 50 cents, right? BTW, walking around the city or driving, it was common to see bills in small denominators–100 VND–on the ground.
Oh, I don’t know whta “bo” means.
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That looks really complicated with the combination of North and South currencies and the consequent inflation. How did they keep track of all that. Ah, the 100 VND sounds kind of like the lucky pennies we find on the ground here. I think Lincoln should be elevated on our coinage.
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I agree about Lincoln. BTW, do you always pick up pennies, even when theyr’e tail up? I do. Every penny is a lucky penny.
Yeah, the inflation is amazing. Believe me, I had to do and re-do the math to make sure it was OK to withdraw 1 million VND from my bank account on the hotel’s ATM machine!
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Yep, I pick the coins up regardless. I have this belief that honoring the smallest amount of abundance leads to greater prosperity.
Withdrawing 1 million on an ATM machine, wow, that’s hard to imagine. I’m wondering more and more what’s going to happen to our own currency after these last few weeks.
I read in a Shamanic astrology newsletter that the planets are aligned such that what’s happening with the global economy is all part of the plan in the world’s spiritual development. That what looks like chaos and is driving all this fear in the Middle World is really aligned with breaking illusions around all this materialism. And the Upper and Underworlds are flowing along.
Hmmm. Food for thought. Just reporting what I read. I guess if we believe in a Higher Power of some kind, you just never know what the plan really is.
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[…] was thinking about that trip yesterday. The postcards I’d sent from Vietnam had just arrived, and I remembered how before I left for Central America I prepared a postcard a […]
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Yum. That looks like pho in that stamp. That’s so neat to see stamps from Vietnam! You know what? I think yb has inspired me. If I ever get a chance to travel around the world, I am so going to buy stamps from every country I visit! That way, I can start on a stamp collection (my new hobby!).
Like you, QM, I love seeing people’s handwriting too! It’s like trying to gauge what the person’s character is like.
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