A Year in Review
The body is a whole of many parts and I continue to seek out everything hidden in that truth - thank you for being the hands, the feet, the eyes, ears and breath. Here is what we exercised with that shared body in 2021…
A Giving Challenge
Giving Tuesday usually sits at the tail end of the post-thanksgiving campaign craze as a philanthropic effort to inspire "global generosity...unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world," as Wikipedia puts it. Unfortunately by the time we get there, most of us are spent in more ways than one and I think that this is a relevant analogy to many of our lives.
Breakfast with Cannibals
“My first clue that something was wrong was with my back against a mud wall between two huts in a cannibalistic island village of Lake Victoria with children clawing at me for candy and toys that we had brought as donations.”
When (Not) Helping Hurts
I’d recently come back from my first trip to Uganda, Africa and was desperately seeking ways to reconcile the shock I experienced in the contrast of cultures upon my return home. Africa wasn’t the first place I had ever experienced third-world poverty, but it would become my last.