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Out There: January 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009. What do I remember most about Christmas in Switzerland? The day after I arrived we took off with our snow gear and started a trip to Bern for sightseeing and then to the Interlaken area for snowboarding. Jen's friends Dina, Richard and Marcelo came along. We took a train to Bern, the capital, to see the city and a Christmas Market. I found out about gluwein at the Bern Christmas Market. I'm not sure what I did all my life without that stuff! Lauterbrunen is a beautiful little to...
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Out There: A thought I had...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. A thought I had. What if, somehow, we were forced to abandon. All except for only one word. For every letter of the alphabet? Meaning that we'd lose all ability to communicate. Through language, save for twenty-six words. We'd step back two hundred thousand years. In terms of the sophistication and eloquence of our speech,. Our most highly evolved means of communication. Without question, the first word. That should be saved from annihilation should be "Love.". A thought I had.
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Out There: April 2008
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Friday, April 25, 2008. Well, as it turns out, weekly posts are impossible for me. I just don't think enough exciting happens to me. And I certainly don't have enough to say to keep a weekly blog interesting. So WYSIWYG I guess.it looks like posts will be just one notch above "rarely". This time I thought I'd put up some pictures I've taken that I think are interesting. This one is a neat flower I found deep in the bush coming back from one of our build sites. I have no idea what it is. How 'bout a termi...
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Out There: January 2008
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008. You may have noticed that I've been a little (okay, a lot) lax in updating my blog of late. So with this post I begin what I hope will be weekly blogs. Each week I'll tell about an experience or highlight some element of life in Sudan. This week I thought I'd show you the local printing/copying, etc. store. It's funny to me the things that parallel things back home. If this isn't funny, or at least amusing to you, wait till next week I guess. Oh, I almost forgot. Here's a...
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Out There: November 2008
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008. I just wanted to put up this photo since I've been instructed to put up more by some of you. Enjoy. More will follow from Switzerland in about a month. This is sunrise on a crisp morning in the Nuba Mountains, South Sudan. It was an amazing morning.the kind of morning that radiates warmth, and hope for this beautiful broken country. Links to this post. Monday, November 03, 2008. Today Nacho got his first bath. He loved it! So he loved it. I loved it! Links to this post.
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Out There: November 2007
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Thursday, November 01, 2007. So I picked him up and brought him back home to his tree. You should have heard the screams when I did that. Most all of the locals are afraid of pretty much any animal except goats. Most of the American's do fine with all those animals, but can't stand goats. As Joe, the finance guy, puts it, "I hate goats! So anyway, here's Amon. He's so handsome. Please don't make fun of his lazy eye.s. He's sensitive about that. I couldn't believe it! It's crazy because I read online that...
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Out There: September 2008
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008. What can I say? What can I say? Links to this post. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Back For More Lazy Days in Zanzibar. Whatever. That's who I am, it's what I do. I love my new knit hat. I picked it up in Stonetown from this Rasta guy named Zacharia who was carving figures from ebony and rosewood. Freaking sweet guy! Whatever. I like my hat anyway. It keeps my hair off my neck so I stay cooler. I know what you're thinking.how could I get any cooler? I know, I know. I have t...
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Out There: May 2008
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008. Termite season has finally arrived in South Sudan again. Excitement! I'm tring to convince myself. Termite.White Ant.Insectus: Isoptera, whichever you like. And let me tell you, around here they like. Although they can be a terrible pest when trying to clean up in the open-top showers here, they are a local delicacy. And I, being a kawaja (whitey, basically), can't pass up the opportunity to pick up some street cred. So I eat. A brief chew keeps the meal moving. Links to this post.
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Out There: December 2011
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Saturday, December 24, 2011. What is it to be a refugee? But there isn’t space for her where you live you move somewhere else. Obviously we’re not just talking about Sudanese villagers. But there’s something of the reluctant refugee in all of us, isn’t there? Tetherball with a stick, a piece of rope and a sock filled with dirt. A tea and hookah shop in the market. Daily chores in the camp. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Martin Luther King, Jr. Godfather, II, III.
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Out There: August 2009
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Monday, August 17, 2009. Back to South Africa. So after a few days in Pretoria seeing some of Dorette's family and good friends we took a short flight down to the Eastern Cape Province town of Sedgefield where her younger sister, Magda, lives. Sedgefield is one of the many places in SA where the beauty can take your breath away. This is the breathtaking view from the deck of a house that Magda was housesitting in Sedgefield. Here Dorette and I enjoy a soak in the hot tub on the deck of that house. There ...
