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Mandalay,
Myanmar
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Alan Black on Glasgow, Kevin Williamson on
Scottish Independence
Red Purple Rose: Californians Michael McClure,
poet, with Terry Riley, musician. (- a link to Riley's
website)
Travel Writer Laurie McAndish King trekking in
Botswana
Nancy Denny-Phelps on Russian train travel
Josh Davis survives the world's most
outlandish competitions.
A
passage from his novel of the same name read by San Franciscan Kenneth Wong, a
native of Burma.
a
travel story by Lauren Cuthbert
Lauren Cuthbert is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and
editor published in numerous international and domestic newspapers, magazines
and online publications. She received her master's degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Young monk in front of the Bagaya Kyaung monastery in Myanmar, near Mandalay. Photo was made in February, 2005 by wiki user Serinde, Hungary.
Burma is
in the news. These stories are not political, but our concern for the people
provides an unspoken subtext. We'd love to visit some day, when the people are
free and kindness prevails.
Novelist Annie Wang on China