You Couldnt Set News Today

Because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im glad people are alive, people are living,...

It was like that for my father. because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im glad peop...

Because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have thakind of experi at the same ti iome back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im glad people are alive, people are living, things are...

It was like that for my father. because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im glad peop...

You cant do that if you dont know when they really died. you just assume those people are just never liberated spiritually. that theyre stuck in that space. it was like that for my father. because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in m...

Care of. there are families here who dont have a death date which is huge, a death anniversary in the vietnamese is when you do the ceremonies, you pay attention to the dead. you cant do that if you dont know when they really died. you just assume those people are just never liberated spiritually, that they are stuck in that space. it was like that for my father because he was in prison, we had no news from him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15 of your fr...

Space. it was like that for my father. because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im gl...

We honor those who are not buried within their home village, and are not taken care of, their spirits are not taken care of. there are families here who dont have a death date which is huge, a death anniversary in the vietnamese is when you do the ceremonies, you pay attention to the dead. you cant do that if you dont know when they really died. you just assume those people are just never liberated spiritually, that they are stuck in that space. it was like that for my father because he was in p...

Because he was in prison, we had no news from him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15 of your friends are going out and doing things, you just had that weight on you that your father is somewhere imprisoned or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time, i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, im glad people are alive, people are living, t...

Of, their spirits are not taken care of. there are families here who dont have a death date. which is huge, a death anniversary in the vietnamese is when you do the ceremonies, you pay attention to the dead. you cant do that if you dont know when they really died. you just assume those people are just never liberated, spiritually, that they are stuck in that space. it was like that for my father because he was in prison, we had no news from him. you couldnt set up an alter, you just hoped that h...