🌹 Happy 81, Daw Suu 🌹

I’ve found more warmth, more wholehearted love, more tenderness, more courage, and more caring concern among my people, as we hope together, we suffer together and struggle together, than anywhere else in the world Aung San Suu Kyi Letter from Burma (1997)

မေမေ့ သူရဲကောင်းများသို့

From a rebel city to unbeknown liberated zones, from a luxury accommodation to a bamboo thatched roof house in the jungle, far away from the civilised society, these are the stories about [them] stirred, bothered, or fascinated by many they can’t understand, or understand too well. 

Haunted by the ghosts of the live [they] might have led — lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.

These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness.