This is such a beautiful post. You are doing amazing work. Many blessings to you.
I love every word you wrote about indigenous people - they are indeed not sideshows or curiosities although they are often treated as such.
I like what you wrote about the Karen woman and her choice - It is indeed her own.
You work in such beautiful countries and with great cultures. I enjoyed my trips to both Burma and Thailand but made no effort to visit indigenous people. I have traveled a lot and hearing of such excursions and how they were sold never sat well with me.

I had to smile while reading about your wedding and divorce thinking that everyone would probably declared that it was the refusal of the pig ritual that caused things to end.