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One of the permanent features of Cambodia life and society is the presence of the Buddhist monks on the street, on the ferry boats, wherever. Every morning they make their rounds begging food and money for the people they care for and for their own meals. Click here to see some of the monks of the streets….
Probably most people passing by at street level don’t even know this tree exists. Its lower trunk is gnashed and scarred, its lower branches cut away, and it stands silently as a witness to humanity’s indifference to nature and beauty. Only its leafy crown proclaims its former glory and the long-gone stateliness of the colonial avenue that predated this now commercial strip.
Today at DDP we said goodbye to two of our staff, our social worker (left) and one of our houseparents. It is difficult to see good staff move on. And it is difficult to replace them!
Expiration dates on products are not unusual. Note this one for April, 2023.
But now notice the product the expiration date is on. In case you can’t read Thai, it’s soap–a bar of soap! How the heck does soap expire?
“You make a living by what you get.You make a life by what you give.”
~Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
Partly because we want to be able to use visuals in our liturgy and partly because we cannot use paper missals and song books during the pandemic, we installed a video system in the chapel that we are now using for our English community masses.
In this COVID-19 economy and business downturn, it’s not unexpected to see Phnom Penh houses for sale and for rent–but a whole high-rise building?
“Did I get the radishes???”
