http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/leaving-yangon-myanmars-capital-in-time-warp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaving-yangon-myanmars-capital-in-time-warp Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/leaving-yangon-myanmars-capital-in-time-warp/comment-page-1/#comment-26747 helfrichpaula Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:59:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=150775#comment-26747 BRAVO!!!   you get it!!!  But the "time warp" will not close soon ... it has protected millions of people since my childhood in Myanmar in the 1950s, and so much is still the same.  The thanaka, the paso/thamein garments, the smiles, the humour, the amazing food, the jasmine garland in the morning, the zero-body-fat chinlon players, the reverence at the pagodas, the serenity of alms givers and receiving monks in the dawn light, and most of all, the kindness .. BRAVO!!!   you get it!!!  But the “time warp” will not close soon … it has protected millions of people since my childhood in Myanmar in the 1950s, and so much is still the same.  The thanaka, the paso/thamein garments, the smiles, the humour, the amazing food, the jasmine garland in the morning, the zero-body-fat chinlon players, the reverence at the pagodas, the serenity of alms givers and receiving monks in the dawn light, and most of all, the kindness ..

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