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Location	Oakland, CA, United States
Introduction	Four waterways converge in Phnom Penh at Chaktomuk, and the confluence of muddy waters with muddier ones results in a natural phenomenon every year, when the rush of the Mekong River, surging with Tibetan ice melt, changes the direction of the Tonle Sap River’s flow. The Tonle Sap River, who had been for most of the year emptying out the great Tonle Sap Lake and meandering down towards the Mekong Delta, for a few months instead flows back into the lake, enlarging it to four times its normal size. It is this confluence that for now captures my thoughts and reflections and yearnings. I’m a mix of experiences and wanderings, of dreams and hesitations, of grand plans and simple ones – and the confluence of them, though muddy and swirling and unclear as it may be, at least assures me that I am headed somewhere good and necessary.

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Oakland, CA, United States

Introduction

Four waterways converge in Phnom Penh at Chaktomuk, and the confluence of muddy waters with muddier ones results in a natural phenomenon every year, when the rush of the Mekong River, surging with Tibetan ice melt, changes the direction of the Tonle Sap River’s flow. The Tonle Sap River, who had been for most of the year emptying out the great Tonle Sap Lake and meandering down towards the Mekong Delta, for a few months instead flows back into the lake, enlarging it to four times its normal size. It is this confluence that for now captures my thoughts and reflections and yearnings. I’m a mix of experiences and wanderings, of dreams and hesitations, of grand plans and simple ones – and the confluence of them, though muddy and swirling and unclear as it may be, at least assures me that I am headed somewhere good and necessary.