Shan
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Chiang Mai, Thailand After riding around the moat that encloses central Chiang Mai city, passing wats and enticing cafes, songteaws and fresh fruit stands, I turn the corner and enter into the temple grounds. A quiet hangs over the temple and adjoining school in the late afternoon sun. Children, dressed in blue and white school
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We bathe together after dancing in the brilliant sunlight of the open temple courtyard. Bathing is an essential ritual to be performed at least twice a day during the torrid heat of the monsoon season in Upland Southeast Asia. After bathing with the dancers, I lay down on the cool tiles of the schoolhouse floor.
Tani Sebro 