Friday, August 08, 2025

On Youtube--hard to find this movie, and hard to find a free one--this one starts very strange--

but ends sweetly. It's called On the Rebound. "Older woman" by 5 years ???!!!
That's nothing. My male cousin married someone 10 years his senior, yet he died first.
Daw Than E Fend married a man 20 years younger, and yet he died first too.
Then she moved countries as a eighty? year old.
Then her ex-husband's new wife's family helped her,including managing her money.
It's amazing, that woman's life.
RIPeace or Protest--Dear Aunty Dora.

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Time Magazine--former MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene sugnals discontent with WH.

Lost--and Never Found--a Poem.

All gone.
Two sets of grandparents.
Paternal grandfather's grave in Myingyan (Horses' Corral) in Burma.
Paternal grandmother's grave and father's grave in Rangoon Htaukkyant Cemetery.
Maternal side best Uncle and Aunt.
Remain alive but not closely in touch--siblings, few cousins, about 6? first cousins both sides died--some still alive--again, not in close touch.
New--support informal "staff."
Oncologist, various specialists,about 8 so far.
Various people like handymen, desk staff, building management.
Still in a highly educated, beautiful county with great landscaping, fairly safe, Blue State, Blue State.
Great food. Friendly people. Few Burmese that I see. Kyi May Kaung Words and Images.

Traveling Days--Big luggage on train, Capital from Union Station--photos Kaung.

Some years ago--Australian Embassy DC under renovation.

Photo Kaung

Note down names and emails of Immigrant Rights lawyers for a master list--circulate on your social media, keep in your phone

Your phone should be with you at all times.
Learn to take photos,get on Substack.
Get off unreliables like X--Facebook.
Delete dangerous social media SITES completely with help of qualified tech.
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See Bethesda Today--Tacoma Park bookstore donates proceeds of GOP book to immigrant rights groups..

Find Immigrant Rights Groups in your area.
Use the ICE app.

See Washington Post--Top Hegseth aid tried to oust senior official from Pentagon.

Check www.irrawaddy.com on a daily basis--

Myan junta battles upstream, Kachin Resistance vows--etc.

Wild pigs found with blue meat in CA-spark alarm--Google--I am unable to post link.

They ate poison--Rodenticide--meant for rodents.
Don't eat--dispose of responsibly in landfill.

Sunday, August 03, 2025

How to live to be over 100--on People Magazine etc. Google it.

Stay active, read, read, read, get your 2nd pacemaker--everything in moderation.
The Middle Way.

For your night time OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder--Fiber Spider's Pi Shawl--

looks to be easier than the previous Pi-Brid shawl--if less showy.
The problem is I seem to have mislaid my knitting needles on a wire--
circular needle and anyway, it would be too short for the Pi Brid. i e The Pi crochet-knit hybrid shawl.
I won't even go into my laptop issues, my writing problems,my health and spacial location problms right now.
My Planning Professor said "Everyone has a problem. It would be a problem if you don't have a problem.
So, on this note, still alive, still dealing with problems
This is Kassandra Says.
CFN.
Wood--cedar lattice detail--Afghan exhibit.

Great masterpiece--C-Drama of 2025--Prisoner of Beauty--free on Youtube--

36 episodes, really well written.
The Lord of Wei--the rival states--the canal,the evil ones,
I will no longer provide links--as it seems a bug came in on a link.
Find it by Googling.

Here comes our Pope--our American-born Pope--oo--won't the orange turn green with jealousy.

See The Guardian.

Saturday, August 02, 2025

WH--regression to the mean--Rose Garden etc--scroll down WITHIN the link--

https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/see-every-era-white-house-203242858.html
Progression to the mean (number) is a statistical term.
It explains why the offspring of tall men don't keep growing taller and taller and vice versa for other physical straits.
But a kingdom or nation state can fracture into rump states (Roman Empire) a government may be overthrown or annihilated (Hitler, WW II Japan) a system can disappear in minutes (atomic bomb, meteor hit which killed the dinosaurs--ascendency of underground mammals)
It's easier to die off than to rebuild. Take head.
kmk--8-2-2025

All the books Dan read--

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-man-kept-a-meticulous-list-of-all-3599-books-hed-read-since-1962-when-he-died-his-family-published-it-online-180987074/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Alan Clements' new book.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/imaginary-conversations-with-min-aung-hlaing.html
Problem is there is no "look inside" option on Amazon--and it's difficult to buy such an expensive book without seeing a sample.
Not clear from the review above if it's an AI generated novel like Maus or Persepolis or Zahra's Paradise. His 1988 based coffee table book was visually very arresting.
it's my understanding that mainstream publishers and magazines don't take books any part of which is AI generated.
Maybe that's why Clements self-published?
Self Publication leads to not very tight editing.
But I think the bias of the above reviewer is uncalled for.
Seems too pro-junta.
Writers and artists are allowed to be as ideosyncratic as they wish. That's the whole point of creating something.
kmk

From the author of War Horse--

https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Garden-Inspired-True-Story/dp/1250034140/ref=sr_1_17?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hNXMlSh5OlwYrdLmX4F9P6rP8C2Z9wu8M7jXDlSK6dQeM1OWq-SW57XyEI56B2r_5YvnpcJA4XDSJ5GHLI4wsGLD3YeelBDFi52niFR1iTmYRS-V4NL3YDG7-Iy5OiV559EKNor2s_20eHpfWH3mTDUZNEifogKwQRycjcb1DEVldvrHz32QVrqhO5iRznM2OcX9gb_80WX6qiRTJowov_Pv9cNfv1P_2TQFPnbX2hXIZTQ49LJehAiecuYgYKONRiQmxIJt6RNptw6QwF8R12j_wCkdsg2Yha2af1VLmsM.NEheteWByIUgTQqlNexquQRLjZarQtV0LhG0N2ighpE&dib_tag=se&hvadid=694784243013&hvdev=c&hvexpln=67&hvlocphy=9007767&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=13895211935355081154--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13895211935355081154&hvtargid=kwd-309618573348&hydadcr=10022_13483914&keywords=new+historical+fiction&mcid=2a0a34ab7ea83d8a91ef120abd1d1677&qid=1754115869&sr=8-17

On Youtube--hard to find this movie, and hard to find a free one--this one starts very strange--

but ends sweetly. It's called On the Rebound. "Older woman" by 5 years ???!!! That's nothing. My male cousin married s...