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Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Friday, January 10, 2025

Special--Pico Iyer's Aflame, The Art of Silence and another book--scroll down.

https://www.amazon.com/Aflame-Learning-Silence-Pico-Iyer/dp/0593420284

More than 100 retreats in a Benedictine monastery in Big Sur,CA.

Well, if my cancer returns maybe I will go there, if I decide to leave treatment.

Note, Iyer took a vow of silence--hnoke paik, in Burmese--"close your mouth" for short periods of time, but he still writes.

That's doable enough for me.

I don't talk much anyway. Below--last photo of Martin Luther King.