Free State of Jones--new movie and reality of Civil War period and Reconstruction (in the South) on which it is based.

Are you white, are you black, are you mixed, are you what??

See below too--

amazing movie based on amazing true story--

some Southerners rebelled and tried to join the North--

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/?no-ist

I am off to see the movie soon.

KMKaung

6-30-2016

Turkey Ataturk airport bombing --

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/europe/turkey-istanbul-ataturk-airport-attack/index.html

Reza Aslan on Trump -- etc.

Reza Aslan on Trump, etc.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-st-conversation-20160410-story.html

Legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham dies age 87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cunningham_(American_photographer)

S. Korean writer Hang Kang, winner of Man Booker International Prize--massacres and meat--in The Vegetarian--

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/han-kang-interview-writing-massacre?CMP=share_btn_tw

S. Korean writer Hang Kang, winner of Man Booker International Prize--massacres and meat--in The Vegetarian--

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/han-kang-interview-writing-massacre?CMP=share_btn_tw

wind machines -- art--

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Children sing Va Pensiero--

I love this and post it over and over again.

If you cannot stand it, I dare you to turn it off.

Tibetan and Cambodian children sing Verdi's Va Pensiero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oGGwDftODc

KMKaung

6-23-2016

My novella Black Rice--available in print & Kindle editions--

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-K-M-Kaung-ebook/dp/B00D0EHGYQ

Back from canyon trip--

where every rock had a story to tell.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/06/abba-first-public-performance-30-years-me-and-i-bjorn-ulvaeus-benny-andersson?CMP=share_btn_tw