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Guardrails
Ah, those halcyon days of sitting around the main conference room at our office on Monday nights, reviewing sketches of elaborate ironwork railings with curliqued ‘B’s to ornament the orphanage. At the end stages of construction, all of that is … Continue reading
The Magic Island
Eighty years ago an adventurer in a parallel epoch arrived in Haiti with the intent to document his impressions unbiased by the polarizing attitudes of his day. W.B. Seabrook is a little known member of the lost generation. While Hemingway … Continue reading
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Tagged black magic, Haiti, sorcery, The Magic Island, voodoo, W.B Seabrook, zombies
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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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Finished…
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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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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