Ukrit's backpack

Niran's backpack

Tanet's backpack

Channarong's backpack

Mongkut's backpack

Happy Birthday to our second eldest kuman thong, Channarong!

Happy Birthday to my eldest kuman thong, Mongkut!

Backpacks For My Boys (Mongkut and Channarong)

Mongkut's backpack, a gift from my sister Sylvia a year or two ago

Channarong's backpack, which I ordered and which arrived last month.

Kittibun and Daw were made and blessed by Luang por (Lp) Cheam Wat Takong.

Friday, August 3, 2018

4:33 PM. Kittibun and Daw arrive. I introduced them to their brothers and left them with Mongkut to be oriented to the house. I am glad they arrived a week before the first day of Hungry Ghost Month (August 11).

Now I am foster father to seven Thai boys.

Friday, July 27, 2018

Caught the documentary Operation Thai Cave Rescue on Discovery last night. I was conducting a workshop in Singapore when all of that happened.


Saturday, July 28, 2018

The TV tuned itself to the documentary Operation Thai Cave Rescue on Discovery again. Must be a message from the two Thai kuman thong en route from Johor (after traveling from Wat Hat Yai Nai) to Cubao.


Sunday, July 29, 2018

Now the TV tuned itself to the Discovery documentary of the 2010 rescue of 33 Chilean miners.

The kuman thong have been wrapped in black since Wednesday, July 18, some 12 days now. They were brought from Thailand to Malaysia, where they were shipped to the Philippines after an unforeseen delay. Still waiting for them to arrive.

This evening E., who is in Thailand, bought me two, tiny kuman thong created by Luang por (Lp) Cheam Wat Takong. The boy with his right arm raised is Kittibun, who will help me in my creative writing projects. The boy with the lotus flower is Daw, who will help me in my painting projects.

The kuman thong will be sent to me on Saturday, after E. goes back to Malaysia.

Lp Cheam Wat Takong

Lp Cheam Wat Takong

Now W. and his wife are also into kuman thong. They purchased one that they fancied and enshrined it, but, that night, W.'s wife was unable to sleep and felt that an invisible entity kept poking her feet. As it turned out, the kuman thong has a companion kuman thong that they left at the dealer's house. They purchased it and enshrined it, and everything has been going very well ever since; the brothers are together again. Yesterday and today they sent me photos of their two kuman thong and the shrine they are in.

W. and his wife have been reading up a lot on kuman thong. They've also been visiting Thai amulet and talisman shops that offer kuman thong, but most of the kuman thong there, as B. said, are "factory-made".

An authentic kuman thong:

1) has an outer shell of metal (brass, bronze, or iron) rather than fiberglass, ceramic, resin, or plaster
2) contains, inside its base, magical and sacred, ritual objects
3) was fashioned by a Luang Por (LP [holy father]) or Ajarn (holy teacher)
4) has the LP's or Ajarn's signature and provenance information on its back or base.

In addition, you must be able to trace and read up on the LP or Ajarn, deceased or alive. Their data are usually on the Net.

It is the kuman thong who comes into your life, not the other way around. If you were not meant to have one, no amount of effort on your part will ever make it happen.

Happy Birthday Tanet, Niran, and Ukrit!

My Thai basketball team

Left to Right: Channarong ("Experienced Warrior"), Niran ("Everlasting"), Mongkut ("Crown"), Ukrit ("Supreme"), Tanet ("Rich Man")