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Tag Archives: Myanmar
Tainted: Not the Grand Transition We Would Hope
This Sunday is a landmark election in Myanmar: described as the first democratic transition in that nation in over half a century. If it happens as the world hopes. It’s easy to be cynical. There have been elections in Myanmar, … Continue reading
Choosing Open Eyes (sermon)
This sermon was delivered on February 22, 2015 at First Parish Church of Groton, MA. audio version here Somewhere in Asia – Japan or Malaysia or some other country – there is a picture on a Buddhist monk’s smart phone. … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Justice, Prayers, Sermons, Standing on the Side of Love, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged accountability, anti-racism, apology, arc of universe, awake, Burma, ethnicity, foot in mouth, Joseph Cherry Prayer for Living in Tension, meditation, Myanmar, open eyes, racism, Tagore Rabindrinath, Theodore Parker, Unitarian Universalist, Victoria Safford
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What is the Hokey Pokey All About?
When I was a social worker/home visitor and got paid for playing with toddlers, I worked in a community that was predominantly Spanish-speaking. This means that I learned a couple of songs in Spanish that are typically sung in Puerto … Continue reading
A Nation Being Rebuilt: My Fortnight in Myanmar (poem)
To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart. (The Work of Christmas, Howard Thurman) The tongue so … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Travelogue
Tagged anti-colonialism, Burma, Howard Thurman, Myanmar, rebuild nations
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Burma Reds (poem)
Bricks from the 9th century onward, the shape of pagodas and temples throughout the whole of ancient Bagan. Modern bricks, careful rectangular stacks surpassing my own height, on display before every third or eighth roadside establishment. Or in piles, waiting … Continue reading
Barefoot Amid Monkey Poop in Myanmar
On Facebook, I posted the following: 777 steps up Mt. Popa, 777 steps down, most of which were, barefoot, amid monkey urine and poop There has been a request for further elucidation. Mt. Popa is in the Bagan region – … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Travelogue
Tagged ANTS, Bagan, Buddhism, Mt. Popa, Myanmar, Nat religion, peeing my pants
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Climbing Bagan
For three days, we are in the Bagan region, which is like walking amid a ten square mile swath of thousand year old ruins. I should be more accurate. It’s not like that. It is that. We spent the day … Continue reading
Good Morning, Inle Lake
Still quite dark, I was awakened this morning by two competing prayers. As I lay in bed in a room that is basically floating on a lake, not too far off in the direction of my right hand there was … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Travelogue
Tagged buddhist prayer, Inle Lake, morning prayer, Myanmar
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Just Another Friday Evening: Shwedagon Pagoda
It must be the place to go on a Friday night. Old people. Young people. Singles, couples, groups of friends. Mothers with babies, fathers with preschoolers, toddlers practicing toddling. People from here, people from there, people from everywhere. People in … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Hope, Travelogue
Tagged Buddhism, friday night out, Myanmar, shwedagon pagoda, yangon
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