Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and once one of the most famous political prisoners in modern history, is now traveling the world on behalf of the government and people of her native Burma (Myanmar). She had been under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years. Now her political party, called the National League for Democracy, is part of the Myanmar government and recently won 41 of the 43 vacant seats in the lower house of the Myanmar parliament. The military backed party still controls most of parliament, but her election and the inclusion of the NLD in government signals changes to come...
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Last month I received a surprise telephone call from Queen Sirikit’s deputy private secretary. She said that Her Majesty was inviting Gloria and me to come to Bangkok for a concert. I explained that Gloria was already in California taking care of her 96-year-old Aunt Gerda for a few months. She said she would get back to me. A short time later, the queen’s secretary called back and asked if I would agree to accept the invitation and come alone. I said I would accept.
Who knew a little grain of rice took so much time and effort to produce! It is a small grain that is fairly inexpensive and unobtrusive but a staple food in most Asian countries. In late May at Jet Rye (3-1/2 acres), 30 minutes north of the school, we planted rice the Thai style or the wet patty process. As you will see below a full days work of tilling the ground, flooding the patties, pulling rice seedlings, and finally transplanting the rice plants in the two patties takes quite a bit of effort...
Friday May 25, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Sirikit and HRH Princess Sirindhorn, left the SiriratHospital where he has been under medical care since September 2009, to travel by motorcade to the old capital of Ayutthaya...
Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The world we see tomorrow will not look like the world we see today. The geopolitics of this earth are changing rapidly. The EU is on the edge of collapse. What replaces this dream of a new Europe of peace and cooperation between the many nationalities and languages of Europe appears to be failing to materialize. Tomorrow’s Europe will not look like today’s Europe.
Many people hope that the so called Arab Spring will lead to democracy and human rights in countries such as Egypt and Libya. But increasingly, diplomats have growing concerns that democracy will not be the end result of the uprisings. Leon Sexton analyzes the current political situation in North Africa and the Middle East to see what is really taking place.
What does Jet Rye mean anyway? Well, it is the latest endeavor of our sustainable agriculture plan; Jet meaning 7 and Rye is a plot of land which equals about 2/5 of an acre. This plot of land, located about 30 minutes northwest of Legacy, we have reserved for the staple food items like rice, corn, soybeans, and peanuts mainly because it is the largest plot we have to work with. Graciously a friend of the school has let us use his land because he cannot farm it at the present time.
Legacy Institute sponsors the non-aligned Feast of Tabernacles site with services each day for the full eight days every year in Thailand. This year the location for the Festival celebrations will be in Chiang Mai at the Empress Hotel and Convention Center. Chiang Mai is called...
In order to travel to Burma for the Spring Holy Days, I asked Mr. Brian Drawbaugh if he would be willing to come over and hold services at the Legacy School for COG members and students who might have remained at Legacy for the school break. He kindly agreed and flew over to help. Here is a brief write-up about the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread in Thailand:
Since my arrival here at Legacy I have tried many new and interesting types of fruit. Some I had already tried in the US but this fruit tasted sweeter and more delicious […]