Legacy Letter January 2021

It is harvest time at Legacy school in Chiang Mai. The rice is ripe and ready. Professor Ong-Art, who runs an organic farm near our rice fields told us we need to harvest NOW because our rice is so heavy it will begin to break the stalks!

Top German court paves way for eurozone rescue fund.This was a heavily debated move. What it means is that German taxpayers will fund lending money to almost bankrupt countries in the EuroZone that used the Euro currency. But why would Germany bail them out? Most Germans are very conservative and angry with countries like Greece, Spain and Italy that are fiscally irresponsible. The answer is that The Dream is Bigger than selfishness. What dream is that ? It is the dream of the RE-CREATION of the Roman Empire. It is the spirit of Charlemagne that will not – nay, cannot die in Germany and France. It is the dream of a world ruling empire from the British Isles to Afghanistan and all across North Africa. It is the resurrection of the glory days of Rome. The euro cannot be allowed to collapse. And the only way this is possible is to lend money to the irresponsible southern partners in order to keep the euro solvent. The Dream will not be allowed to die. That is why the Euro must be saved.

“A Journey to Another World and a Sudden Return”

The experience of a Volunteer of the Legacy Foundation during the Covid-19 Outbreak,
written by Leonhard Huett

Lately the news is dominated by the Covid 19 headlines, becoming the predominant topic anyone talks about. Amidst the early stage of the outbreak with not yet too many regulations in place but a wave of panic steadily taking over the global discourse, I set out to experience a whole new world: Myanmar and more specifically Jawk Taing, a small yet idyllic village in the midst of a jungle in the Bago Region, the north-eastern part of the country.

Of course, we’ve had the new garden and the new students for awhile now. The new garden was started last school year […]