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You may go your whole life in the US and never see something like this. Palm trees you may encounter in parts of the southern US, but the big wire thing? It’s a coconut catcher. They aren’t too common even here in Cambodia, but in some places with a lot people walking around and with a lot of palm trees with a lot of coconuts, they can be literally life-saving devices. Coconuts are heavy–maybe 3 to 5 lbs–with thick, heavy husks. One falling on a person’s head from 50 feet can be fatal.
Disclaimer: This is not a manifesto, a separate document put forward by John Wesley, but rather a compilation of principles that are found in his writings.
This big grey building housed a karaoke center pre-Covid-19. Then when the government closed all such gathering places, they reopened as restaurants–at least officially. Stories keep appearing in the papers of the music still going on inside. This place placed the name “LA Restaurant” over the entranceway and hung up a sign of various dishes, and, voila, a restaurant! During the morning marketing time, vendors fill the street in front of the hall.
Two children, one playing alone on the riverfront in Phnom Penh, the other cradled by his mother. May they both survive and thrive….
Most monks stay close to their home wat and just walk their appointed routes when begging in the morning, but they can use wheels when necessary. Click here for modes of monk travel.
From the looks of the sign and the stand, you can get both your motorcycle and your clothes cleaned and get some coffee to drink at the same time.
Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The graph above, from VOD, indicates that all is not well with the Cambodian government’s efforts to slow down the spread of Covid-19 in the kingdom.
On the other hand, the government has made some good moves. Within ASEAN, Cambodia has vaccinated more people than any other country except Singapore. And Cambodia has from the start included us foreigners living here in their vaccination plans. In this picture a member of our English Catholic Community gets his second injection.