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Island within Island
Islands are sanctuaries. We are drawn to their simple clarity. Their geographic confines liberate our psyche. We envision life on an island as purer and more satisfying. My life in Haiti is simpler than my life in the United States. … Continue reading
Adopted by an Orphan
This is another essay published in conjunction with the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. This appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine on January 20, 2013 under the title ‘The Boy Who Adopted Me’. I reach down; a small black hand … Continue reading
Buckeye Logic Comes to Magic Haiti
This is the second of four articles I had published in conjunction with the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. This article was published in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer on January 11, 2013. Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake I have made sixteen trips … Continue reading
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Tagged Akron, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Grand Goave, Haiti, logic, magic, MoHI, Ohio
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Mission of Hope Sermon
Lex and Renee invited me to speak at their church on the last Sunday of my regular visits to Haiti. We are planning to move classes into the new school in January. Even though I tried to use simple words … Continue reading
It Takes a Conglomerate
Anyone who subscribes to the quaint idea that it takes a village to raise a child need only consider what it takes to keep my little chum Dieunison and his older brother Jerry in school. A village exists in Grand … Continue reading
What does it mean to Be Like Brit?
This is the speech I gave last night at the BeLikeBrit gala. Someone told me that there is an NGO for every 750 people in Haiti. I never verified that statistic but it feels about right. NGO’s are everywhere. Oxfam … Continue reading
Death Comes to Grand Goave
Death comes to Haiti so arbitrary it shatters any illusion that we control our destiny. Hurricane Sandy is on her third day of delivering heavy rain to Grand Goave. Unlike Isaac, who quickly shuffled through his fierce gales and heavy … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Babies Delivered
A few months ago I considered the different circumstances of my pregnant yoga teacher in Boston and the pregnant woman who lives at the bottom of the hill from Be Like Brit in Grand Goave, Haiti. I am happy to … Continue reading
The Same Moon
Life’s most sublime moments occur when least expected. It is Thursday night in the construction shanty, my last night this trip. There is a cosmic electrical dysfunction occurring throughout Grand Goave; for the past twenty-four hours we have had power … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, BeLikeBrit, BLB, Grand Goave, Haiti, Harvard Copp, Marie Antoinette, moon, The Moon Seems to Change
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Raging River
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
