This is why despite the 13 previous letters that Aung San Suu Kyi had written beautifully depicting her home and its very relatable citizens within political and social turmoil, her fourteenth letter stood out to me in stark contrast. It is a letter about an infant- something so personal, joyful, and sacred that it called attention immediately to the similarity and differences between us and the citizens of Burma. The pristine description of her friends’ newborn baby girl dressed in white was alarmingly followed by statistics of mortality rates for infants, children, and mothers, yet there was emphasis on joyful hearts and the clean slate which was this new life. She writes, “Is it not the thought of a life stretching out like a shining clean slate on which one day be written the most beautiful prose and poetry of existence that engenders such joy in the hearts of the parents and grandparents of a newly born
This is why despite the 13 previous letters that Aung San Suu Kyi had written beautifully depicting her home and its very relatable citizens within political and social turmoil, her fourteenth letter stood out to me in stark contrast. It is a letter about an infant- something so personal, joyful, and sacred that it called attention immediately to the similarity and differences between us and the citizens of Burma. The pristine description of her friends’ newborn baby girl dressed in white was alarmingly followed by statistics of mortality rates for infants, children, and mothers, yet there was emphasis on joyful hearts and the clean slate which was this new life. She writes, “Is it not the thought of a life stretching out like a shining clean slate on which one day be written the most beautiful prose and poetry of existence that engenders such joy in the hearts of the parents and grandparents of a newly born