by Joe Henry
One by one, as sweat slowly began to mark their saffron robes, the monks pounded stakes into the ground one humid morning in suburban Chiang Mai, Thailand. As their work took shape, it became apparent to people in the Kwan Wiang neighborhood what the Buddhist leaders were doing: building a tent in order to take offerings to appease the community spirit, so obviously angered to have killed three people in car accidents on successive weekends.
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By Lucinda Bentley
My neighbors live at the edge of the River Rocha,
Only an open canal; chemical waste, raw sewage, old tires.
Their homes pop up and proliferate like toadstools after rain,
Disappear,
These houses of ripped sheet plastic, rags and banana leaves.
When we visit with donations one man with long white hair
Against dark sunburned wrinkles, asks for "soymilk, instead".
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A story from a nomadic Muslim people group in the mountains of South Asia
By Jimmy
In a remote region of northern India, four men hurriedly drove a
tractor down a winding mountain road, en route for supplies. In a
flash, the tractor tipped over, killing one man and injuring two
others.
Soon after, the driver was thrown in jail and a group of men
assembled to decide his fate. The incident created uproar in the small,
rural community. Should the driver have to pay for his mistake?
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