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Architectural design is a process that begins with grand concepts and evolves into tedious minutiae. It is not always linear, we often circle back to ensure that the part and the whole work together, but in general architects work from … Continue reading
Everybody is Here!
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
Sri Lankan Delights
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
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
Summertime, and the Living is Easy
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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Tagged George Gershwin, Grand Goave, Haiti, Janis Joplin, Magic Haiti, Port Au Prince, Summertime
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Safety vs. Security – Canadian Style
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
Hollow Reed Swaying in a Swamp
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
Driving into Dawn
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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Tagged billboards, Grnad Goave, Haiti, MoHI, PAP, Port Au Prince, tap tap
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Haiti is for Lovers
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
Building Stairs
Yesterday we began building the main stairs at Mission of Hope, our first permanent concrete stairs. Like all ‘first days’ of a new phase in the work, it goes very slow and the miscommunication is rampant. It takes us about … Continue reading
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