In the making, these songs went into the ears of people who told me what they thought. Lucky me. And thanks to you, John Kloos, Jon Maner, David Kirby, Mark Pietralunga, Larry Dorfman, Gil Hudnall, Bob Clarkson, Melani McAlister, Axel Schäfer, Susan Estes, Andy Rojecki, Alexandria Meyer, Greg Hajcak, John Modern, David White, Sukhi Khosla, Sheila Curran, and Helen, Curran, Jim, Anne, and Myles Corrigan. My brother Paul, likewise a guitar player, who has spent the majority of his life in Hong Kong but still might take his bearing on the world from the F# note that starts the guitar break in God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols version), especially pushed and pulled me in the best of directions.

The home page photo of Myanmar Mount Popa Taung Kalat Monastery is originally iStockphoto LP (here by permission of Getty).

The photo of elephants working in a waterside timber yard in Rangoon (Yangon) is by Adolphe Philip Klier / The National Archives UK. Klier’s beautiful photographs are of turn of the century Burma (Myanmar). All other photos of Burma are by Dominic Winter, BNPS.

Sheila Curran took the pictures of me.