Reflecting on Tharmanay Kyaw Sayadaw wasn't on my agenda this evening, but these thoughts have a way of appearing unbidden.

Often, a trivial event serves as the catalyst. In this instance, it was the noise of pages adhering to one another when I reached for a weathered book kept on a shelf too close to the window. Moisture has a way of doing that. I paused longer than necessary, carefully detaching the sheets individually, and somehow his name surfaced again, quietly, w

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