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… My last few days I’ve been living some of what I learned in Guatemala. I don’t always listen to what my body tells me, and often, I schedule and overschedule myself. Last week, I got a head cold that quickly morphed into me losing my voice. My 9 am to 2 am day (most likely) triggered this. What an incredibly funny species we are that we forget our lessons so quickly. I had eased in to my schedule after …
Some pictures to whet your appetite: The ladder being “fixed” The whole process, from start to finish. The process of moving the cement merits detailed exposition. The workers (and John) shoveled the cement into buckets that we had lined up (about 8 of them); these were the same buckets Ana and I had used to hurl water. I picked up a bucket, turned, handed it to Jen, who passed along to Ana, to the next and then the next, then, …
*Disclaimer: This is MUCH longer than most of my other posts. It will take a while to read through. If you were to print it out, it would be about 2 pages double-spaced. I’m going to post part two separately. Almost three weeks after the fact, about to reconstruct the day of concrete and cement, I looked in my journal today to see what I’d noted, in the hopes that it might jog my memory of the day. What I …
To finish up our first day, let me tell you about our visit to Santa Clara and Paso a Paso . Santa Clara is the nursery that International Samaritan runs in cooperation with the city of Guatemala. There we met Sonia La Roche, a small but strong woman, who runs the nursery; she has worked at Santa Clara for years, since she met Fr. Vettesse. She shared with us that the people in the area told her she had to talk with “the crazy gringo …
This past Wednesday I shared about Guatemala and the stories from my time there with campers at Little Friends for Peace’s Peace Camp in Mt. Rainier. For the week, there are between 40 and 50 campers; the campers include kids from Mt. Rainier, kids from Washington D.C., and kids whose families are part of TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition). I haven’t spoken much with anyone about Guatemala; when friends or family ask me, I often refer them here, or I say “I’m not …
