Monthly Archives: August 2012

Everybody is Here!

Posted on 08/31/2012 by paulefallon

Haiti has nine million people. I often say that if you come here for a week you see half of them; everyone lives outside and people love to spend their time parading the streets.  Any activity brings hoards of onlookers … Continue reading →

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Sri Lankan Delights

Posted on 08/28/2012 by paulefallon

When Jean Bertrand Aristide fled to exile in 2004, Haiti fell into armed chaos.  The UN stepped in with emergency troops to restore order and later established permanent peace keeping forces, which are still here today.  Haiti is an insular … Continue reading →

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Raging River

Posted on 08/25/2012 by paulefallon

The Grand Goave River is almost a quarter mile wide.  Often it is a trickle and we walk across it.  Sometimes it meanders with enough volume to force us to walk or drive around it.  I have heard stories of … Continue reading →

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Summertime, and the Living is Easy

Posted on 08/24/2012 by paulefallon

George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ is the most covered song in recording history.  I would have never guessed that, but it is a factoid that makes sense.  We all love summer, though our reasons are as varied as the artists who have … Continue reading →

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Safety vs. Security – Canadian Style

Posted on 08/18/2012 by paulefallon

Somewhere towards the end of my first 24 hours in Nova Scotia, about the time I hopped a fence in the cemetery I was walking through when there was no gate where I expected, I looked around to make sure … Continue reading →

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Hollow Reed Swaying in a Swamp

Posted on 08/13/2012 by paulefallon

Every so often I remind myself that I started this blog in response to my experience in yoga, yet I have not posted a piece about yoga in months.  Yes, I still go to class every day when I am … Continue reading →

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Driving into Dawn

Posted on 08/04/2012 by paulefallon

Pastor Akim, one of MoHI’s regular drivers, must like to get up early. He tells me we will leave at 5 am for my ten o’clock flight out of PAP.  I ask him to knock on my door in the … Continue reading →

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Haiti is for Lovers

Posted on 08/01/2012 by paulefallon

By and large the people who carve out a piece of their life to work in Haiti are interesting folk.  There are new missionaries every time I return to Mirlitone and, aside from the over-zealous, I enjoy them.  Occasionally someone’s … Continue reading →

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