My thoughts returned to Tharmanay Kyaw Sayadaw unexpectedly tonight, but that is typically how these reflections emerge.

Something small triggers it. In this instance, it was the noise of pages adhering to one another as I turned the pages of a long-neglected book kept on a shelf too close to the window. Humidity does that. My pause was more extended than required, pulling the pages apart one at a time, and in that stillness, his name reappeared unprompted.One finds

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