Donovan BuiOlderAt 3:41 last night I woke up to blink for an hour. In a borrowed room, the light was unfamiliar and the square window that doesn’t close…2 min read·Dec 26, 2019----
Donovan BuiI wouldI don’t remember driving or even having the idea but I’m here. Every few minutes the stillness yields to a family with a full bike rack a…1 min read·Jul 10, 2019----
Donovan BuiHow I Grew and Loved L.A.I don’t remember exactly when I started to really, I mean, really, like LA. It wasn’t during college, I’m positive, when telling others…2 min read·Apr 12, 2019----
Donovan BuiThousands of miles (and Dad's Vespa)In December, I drove 720 miles in one day to Big Sure and back. This was place I’d been to before, multiple times. I did this because…2 min read·Jan 9, 2019----
Donovan Bui32I want to feel the music gliding up my spine. I want to hear the beauty when my eyes open at the world. I want to see my own heartbeat…1 min read·Nov 15, 2018----
Donovan BuiAN IMAGE IS NOT TRUTH. It may be well far from it.Last weekend, I hiked to the Wisdom Tree. Though I didn’t feel any wiser, I did find a lot of tourists. You wouldn’t be able to tell from…2 min read·Dec 6, 2017----
Donovan BuiThis is the heaviest I’ve ever been.I’ve breathed in 31 years, I plunge each down my lungs, making room for a history that’s thickening every day, unsympathetic when I say: I…1 min read·Nov 15, 2017----
Donovan BuiWHY I DON’T ROMANTICIZE TRAVELIn winter 2015, we rode the train from Berlin to Prague on a trip that started in NYC and ended in Mumbai. We were in transit frequently…2 min read·Oct 27, 2017----