Author Description

Walk a While in My Sandals is a healing journey. The curative landscape is the ancient Kingdom of Cambodia. The timeframe spans 1969-1999 when the Khmer people displayed an incredible endurance and a remarkable resiliency from incredibly inhumane traumas using The Khmer Way. This unique approach typifies acceptance, mindfulness, respect and a societal emphasis on positive emotions - all vanguards to self-healing. The pain sources were nine regimes acting out on the Cambodian stage. These players are identified as the Deep Influencers. They were intoxicated by the Domino Theory, erratically imposing their political agendas, military strength, clandestine intelligence operations and economic powers on Cambodians, which adversely affecting the lives of millions of Khmer. The book is not about Deep Influencers' mindlessness, but Khmer mindfulness; is not about pain, but recovery; is not about resistance, but acceptance; is not about past or future, but present; is not about unthinkable violations, but the resiliency of Khmer recoveries; is not about blame, but tolerance; is not about forgetting, but learning; is not about thoughts, but about feelings. It honors the societal strength found deep within The Khmer Way, which survived the suffering and turmoil of this troublesome period to become an even stronger code of conduct for Cambodians. It is the living example of peace amid colliding worlds, a display of deep familial bonding, an intensive respect of connectedness, the importance of the spirit world and the inherent strength of an intricate, transcendent centeredness.