When I was growing up, I didn’t see a lot of my mother. We were well-off so she was always out gallivanting with friends, flying to different countries, buying different clothes, and just generally finding new ways to spend money. Was my mother a bad mother? No, not by a long shot. She was generous […]

(Taken with my iPhone) Please grant me long life so that I may live always in the service of others.

treekisser: Accountability in Our Diets If you wouldn’t personally castrate an animal without anesthetic, if you wouldn’t work at a factory farm, if you wouldn’t take a baby away from his mother, if you wouldn’t brand someone’s skin, if you wouldn’t cut off beaks, toes or tails, if you wouldn’t deprive someone of light, if […]

At Wat Phra Kaew this morning. (Taken with my iPhone)

(Taken with my iPhone) Wan talking about where we have to brick up the Ladrang, because Bangkok seems to have run out of sandbags.

(Taken with my iPhone) Our garden during a heavy rain, minus the flood warning. The water is already up to my ankles. Let’s hope “tok liao” doesn’t become “naam tuuam liao”. On the hunt for sandbags tonight.

(Taken with my iPhone) At Jusco today, during my hunt for water.

(Taken with my iPhone) Empty shelves at Big C tonight. Instant noodles and tinned fish…I wonder what’s on the Bangkok flood menu for them!

(Taken with my iPhone) Shakyamuni, Fasting Buddha and Shakyamuni again, all sitting happily on the verandah of the Bangkok Ladrang.

(Taken with my iPhone) It was a very warm day at Wat Muang.