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The Known Unknowns | rootsandfernweh
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March 3, 2015. Every three months the Peace Corps sends out the infamously bureaucratic Volunteer Response Form (VRF). Essentially a survey to collect data on the activities, classes and projects each volunteer has been working on, the question that causes me the most angst is the following:. Question: Finish the sentence. If I could share one thing about my host country with my friends and family back home it would be . Tell us about Indonesia. Tell me about the Peace Corps. What IS all that like? Emily...
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November | 2015 | rootsandfernweh
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Monthly Archives: November 2015. Ibu Sexy Dance Time. November 2, 2015. The best part about this class is that it immerses me in the experience of being female. It might not come as a newsflash to friends and family back home but yes Indonesia, I am indeed a woman. My strangeness as a foreigner makes me sexless. On the other side of my asexual existence is the acutely felt presence of my lady chromosomes. And so the other volleys back No, you’re the wound! One woman tells me when I mention the song, so m...
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Out of Indo | rootsandfernweh
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March 26, 2015. In 1913 a young Danish woman followed her new husband (who also happened to be her second cousin) to Kenya to establish a coffee plantation. The Baron and Baroness Blixen started life in the Ngong Hills well enough–many a hunting safaris and coffee planting days were had, until Karen Blixen contracted syphilis from the philandering Baron and returned to Denmark to recover. A Wild Patience Has Brought Me Here. 7 thoughts on “Out of Indo”. March 26, 2015 at 11:42 pm. I love you and your wri...
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Fear | Never Tiptoe
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe. -Shane Claiborne. December 7, 2015. Animals Can’t Talk. The Boy Who Can’t Sit Still →. December 7, 2015 at 6:46 pm. December 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm. Reblogged this on Worth a Journey. A fantastic blog post from a fellow PCV that puts many things I have been thinking about into beautiful, compelling words. Check it out! Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Fear | Never Tiptoe
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe. -Shane Claiborne. December 7, 2015. Animals Can’t Talk. The Boy Who Can’t Sit Still →. December 7, 2015 at 6:46 pm. December 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm. Reblogged this on Worth a Journey. A fantastic blog post from a fellow PCV that puts many things I have been thinking about into beautiful, compelling words. Check it out! Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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About | a high horse & a red pen
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A high horse and a red pen. 1 This is primarily a book review blog, though there might be the occasional tidbit about life in book world. 2 I work in the book publishing industry as a freelance editor. Red pen) and an in-house publicist. 3 I was an English major in college (high horse) and studied Publishing after graduation. 4 The face to the left is mine. I was once accused of being a book snob. I was rather pleased with the epithet. Of galleys on my hands and in need of an outlet for my snobbery.
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March | 2016 | rootsandfernweh
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Monthly Archives: March 2016. March 7, 2016. The incomparable Junot Diaz has written of relationships that as soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end. This is how I too know my Peace Corps service is almost over–besides a few projects I am wrapping up and discussing with my friends, we mainly talk about the days and moments that have already happened. In the last month I have been shocked and embarrassed by the behavior of one Donald Trump and his abhorrent comments aimed at Muslims&...
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rootsandfernweh | The chronicles of a wandering homebody. | Page 2
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December 22, 2014. Perhaps the first thing I should say is that I experience at least a little pleasure every day. I wonder if this is more than the usual amount? The thing no one ever told me about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. And yet if it hadn’t happened at all, at least once, how would we live? Why would anyone agree to eight hundred days of pure, painful, beautiful, ever present joy? A Bus Full of Grace. November 15, 2014. That is what I expected when I boarded the bus back to...
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Ghost Stories | rootsandfernweh
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September 28, 2015. I’m well versed in the film Titanic and so understood that phrase to mean our school was goin’ down. And yet for all that science and psychology can say about this phenomenon, the Javanese believe in something beyond what my Western perspective can explain. It is a culture that believes in the mystery that shape-shifts at the edge of the senses. When a person is stressed, scared or sick, their souls are at risk of becoming possessed by bad energy, or angry anitu. This Month In Photos!
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