Hope from the Hills
New day promises to be a good day
April 17 2008Yesterday was a good full day. Beautiful weather. Focus and creativity in work – completing ‘to do’ list. And best of all, felt ‘the presence’ in all of it.
Also, this 71 year old body is a joy to live in – all vitals normal, have lost nearly 10 lbs in the last 2 months – and feel WONDERFUL: full of energy and physical strength. Thank you Lord.
Open arms of God
March 07 2008A gorgeous spring morning burst out in the Texas Hill country today: A soft green hint of infant leaves spilling contrasts across the landscape; Bluebonnets and Indian Paint Brush splattering specks of new color down field and roadside. Fresh sun-golden air. All these sing, “It’s a great day to be alive!”
(0) Comments | RSSHeaded to Kasibi
March 05 2008At 9:00 a.m. this morning some 20 of us piled onto a flat bed truck and struck out for the Kasibi. We bounced and rocked for well over a hot and windy hour over bush trails, through cornfield, woods and past dozens of thatched roofed mud huts. The road ended at a swollen creek, which we crossed on foot over a make-shift ‘bridge’ of logs.
(0) Comments | RSSOn the road
March 04 2008This Morning then the four couples of us, hit the road in two vehicles loaded down with school supplies, construction supplies, sacks of ground meal, and huge bags of clothing – that had come in shipping containers from Canada. First stop was Simakakata, a village of blind people (and their families) cast aside by African society, clinging to the desperate edge of poverty.
(0) Comments | RSSSeven Fountains pastures
March 03 2008Today, by 6:30 am, we had joined a gang of students and farm worker in one of the Seven Fountains pastures – to manufacture and stack bricks. It was day that involved some of the hardest physical work I have done in a long time, but also enormously interesting and fulfilling.
In the center of the operation at a small portable brick-making machine – powered by a small gasoline engine. It turns out approximately 1 large block like, grooved brick, every eleven seconds.