The above photographs are from a Buddhist funeral I attended several weeks ago. It was a remarkable ceremony. “ The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Bartel Teisenni Since my return from [...]
Everything is going beautifully nowhere. James Broughton,Greetings Everyone,It’s been a good long while since I’ve made an entry into my blog site. In fact it was June 8th, after the ending of the political crisis here in Thailand. It’s time.In [...]
After a terribly long, hot spell with a thick wedge of social strife that kept parts of Bangkok on edge and the media churning, I’m happy to be submitting a new blog entry. For all those [...]
It is less than a week before Sangkran here in Chiangmai. This ancient Buddhist festival that has grown into a five day frenzy, generating millions of baht occurs during the hottest month of the year. However [...]
Late last year I ghost wrote several children’s stories, one of which was about an elephant. At one point in the story I had suggested that perhaps the elephant was pretending about its feelings. The story [...]
Pai, Thailand: The mahout woke me at 6:30, the sun just beginning to rise above a rather bleak landscape. I had asked to accompany him up into the hills to get the elephant Panom, where she [...]
Yesterday Chang Lek and visiting friend Richard Wofford and I drove south of Chiangmai, where I live, to Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital near Lampang Thailand. We began with a very nice conversation with founder [...]
HOT ON THE HEELS OF A WONDERFUL PANOM FILM PREMIER at the University of Chiangmai Art Museum are two new events, separate but ultimately connected. FEBRUARY ART SALE / I’m sending out a visual art PDF catalogue [...]
This morning I was sent this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BCB2-OmRY&feature=PlayList&p=CC095FA160405805&index=5 I do encourage everyone to watch this short film and send it on. Not only is it a powerful and moving indictment about what we are doing to the [...]
I spent the morning near Changmai in a lovely wat (temple) learning more about an important and fascinating project directed by Lauri Maund. Lauri, originally from Australia, has lived in Thailand for about thirty-seven years. Through [...]
