Small things, mostly

All you have to do is exist (Saigon)

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.

Small things, mostly

I always recall the above line from a Japanese novel when I meet the che (dessert) seller just outside the Japanese town in Saigon. She grills the sticky rice encased banana (chuoi boc nep nuong), and makes the world little more perfect with that warm smile.

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