17 MARCH 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Women pray before presenting cooked sticky rice to monks during a "sticky rice merit making" in Lumpini Park in Bangkok. Sticky rice merit making is a merit making in the Isan / Lao style, when people present small amounts of cooked sticky rice (also known as glutinous rice) to Buddhist monks. Isan is the northeast region of Thailand. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ