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Elephants of Kulen Mountain

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On my last weekend here I took the day to hang out with some elephants. Not much more to say than that. I when to the Kulen mountain elephant preserve. They have nine elephants, seven female and two male Asian elephants.  The over all population in Cambodia is not doing too well. The guide told us that there are around 400 elephants in country, including wild, preserve captive and zoos.  Which is way less than the populations in Thailand, Vietnam and Loas; which all number in the thousands. It seems that many of the elephants that use to live in Cambodia, understood that something bad was happening during the Khmer Rouge and took off to these other countries and haven’t come back yet. I’m not sure that true, but they are very smart and probably know more than we think.  Anyway, the Kulen Mountain is about an hour drive outside the city. The mountain is a really population place to visit, which we did on the last trip with Vincent and Liam.   The elephant preserv...
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Birth rights

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I don’t really know if people claim birth rights anymore. I mean it sounds like something someone in pantaloons and a poofy blouse would say. But I think it’s still a thing.  Especially in the current climate in the U.S. there is a lot of talk if not directly, indirectly about what a birth right is. This includes the proposed legal perspective but also a cultural and social perspective.  For the most part I think birth rights are stupid. Just because you were lucky or unlucky enough to be born into some situation you have certain inalienable rights that someone else isn’t able to have…aren’t we all God’s children. Sounds colonialist. Sorry folks, it is most useful in the hands of oppressors. For a person in my situation, I have a hard time claiming any “birth rights.”  I cannot claim any from my nationality, I was not born a U.S. citizen and according to many that means I will never be a true American. Which I don’t care about because those people are assholes. I became a...
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