Week 11 - Krabi, Thailand
No Phone, No Story? There’s a strange kind of freedom when your phone disappears—not because you lost it, but because, for once, it didn’t feel necessary. I don’t remember if we were told to put them away during NatureMindED, but either way, mine stayed down. No angles. No snapshots. No internal monologue raving about the last photo I’d taken. And that silence—both digital and mental—opened up space I didn’t know I’d been missing. The contrast hit me hardest when I scrolled back through my camera roll a few days later. Over a hundred video clips from our first full day in Krabi—longboats, island hopping, cave shrines, people learning how to flip off the edge of the boat and conquering their fears midair. I remember thinking, "This is the day I’m going to miss most." But as I kept scrolling, I hit a wall—because after that, there was nothing else to show. The footage stopped, but the memories didn’t. What I reflect on now? The moments no one recorded. That longboat reel was ...
