...days old...

This baby is not going ot survive. The young mother is hopeful, but already at a few days old, the baby has a cough. With no medicine or health care, giving birth is a crap shoot. Mn told me bluntly this may be the only family portrait of this mother and child ever made.

Bantchi: Soul credit

December 14th 2007
Bantchi Credit is the idea that our actions build us credit as we go on, and we can draw down on that for a time. It needs refilling but who’s to say what actions earn credit and what deplete it. The Burmese turn to this idea to explain many of their circumstances but use other sources as well. Min Min’s mother wasn’t home when Minoo and Eve and I stopped at Kit 12 to visit the family. His ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more

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