La vie Boheme

Liane KohI only read a select few personal blogs regularly. One of these first class blogs is written by a beautiful young woman with who just returned from a trip to Cambodia. In Cambodia she explored the illegal sex trade and learned about the international groups fighting to stop it.

“How do people become so sick?” she asks, reflecting on the book Not For Sale which she read before traveling. “How can parents knowingly sell their son to a sex trafficker because they want to a car or buy real estate? We’re not even talking survival here. Real estate, for crying out loud! How can grown men, married with children, visit brothels and pay to rape 10 year-old girls, then go home to their families? ”

This anger is a good contrast to her usual upbeat cheariness. Like her little poem “S is also for Singapore”:

I like the letter S.
Sun
Sand Sea
Scenery Shopping Sugar
Sharing Smiling Snorkeling Sightseeing


Lately, in reflecting on her trip, she has been telling stories of the lives of some of the women and young girls she met in Cambodia. Here she captures the optimism of children in the midst of sexual abuse, violence, and rape.
 
I like Liane’s blog because her tone is nurturing without being cheesy. She doesn’t quote statistics or numbers to stir us up in defense of those in need, rather with her stories, she invites us to help alongside her. She lets us in to her life, and in so doing, some of her compassion rubs off.
 
I’ll admit, I’m a biased critic toward her writing because she is my girlfriend, but maybe one reason she’s my girlfriend is because I like her writing.
 
Click here for her main page.

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