CHIANG MAI POSTCARD

It's actually been a few weeks since I was in Chiang Mai, but today I remembered a detail about the city that caught my eye. In several neighborhoods, I noticed a thin white string connecting the houses like a giant spiderweb. Were they using an old-fashioned tin can telephone to communicate with their neighbors? Nope. Turns out that monks create this yarn network between the homes of Buddhists to symbolically unify the neighborhood's believers. What a simple but cool way to represent community.