Monday, February 27, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
D.S. pancake recipe--still flip-flopping
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmars-history-of-governments-in-exile.html
This is the man who without an earned PhD said "It's not forced labor, it's corvee labor."
Quote from My Fair Lady--"Marry Freddy? Ha!!"
FYI--Dr Sein Win declined to see him. I know. I'm the one who went upstairs to ask DrSW if he'd like to talk to Steinberg.
2-26-2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
Luke Harding: First year anniversary of the Ukraine War
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/grief-and-defiance-in-kyiv-on-first-anniversary-of-war-in-ukraine
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Pema Chodrun The Fine Art of Failure.
https://tricycle.org/article/pema-chodron-fail/
Seated Buddha Afghanistan
For writers--The Fine Art of Failure.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/02/writing-creative-careers-success-failure-rejection-persistence/673122/
2-22-2023
Matthew Arnold:
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Guerilla warfare --wiki
Guerrilla tactics are on intelligence, ambush, deception, sabotage, and espionage, undermining an authority through long, low-intensity confrontation. It can be quite successful against an unpopular foreign or local regime, as demonstrated by the Cuban Revolution, Afghanistan War and Vietnam War.
Strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare - Wikipedia
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Sun Tzu--The Art of War
1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
2-21-2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
John Donne--Death be not proud.
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
One of the poems my father used to read to me--
IF I SHOULD EVER BY CHANCE
Edward Thomas
IF I should ever by chance grow rich
I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my elder daughter.
The rent I shall ask of her will be only
Each year's first violets, white and lonely,
The first primroses and orchises--
She must find them before I do, that is.
But if she finds a blossom on furze
Without rent they shall all forever be hers,
Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo and Lapwater,--
I shall give them all to my elder daughter. (All I shall give to my elder daughter.)
cheers
km
9-24-2022
My Father Sithu U Kaung
I intend to spend a reflective day, writing the final chapters of the novel I am currently writing.
In the past, on each anniversary, I tried to do something significant, such as a poetry reading (in Ann Arbor,Michigan)
going to a hidden garden on Penn Campus,
publishing a novel.
Today I baked bread.
My/our grandmother May May Gyi saw the last king of Burma Thibaw being taken away to Ratnagiri on the W coast of India, when she was a girl of 13, swimming in the Irrawaddy River.
She named him U Kaung after the Kinwun Mingyi, who was King Mindon's (Thibaw's father's) first ambassador to the West.
I don't really know enough to write a non-fiction biography, and I really don't want to.
I have some fiction fragments on paper that I am trying to look for.
It's so aggravating.
Lib of Congress photo--Head of Educational Mission to N and S America. 2nd from left.
2nd photo,with Fulbright Committee--L to R
best friend U Cho, Lionel Landry, Dr Htin Aung, U Kaung
only woman in photo--Miss Geiger, to her L Sao Sai Mong.
Bank note signed by "Maung Kaung" as head of Burma Currency Board.
Book of essays, obits etc written by his friends and colleagues, collected by my brother, Dr Thaw Kaung, 2004.Centenery first edition.
kmk
2-19-2023
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