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back on the road
We had a nice weekend, here in Bujumbura. Quiet. Breezy. Ice-cold coke-y. We watched our Ray VanderLaan DVD and episodes of our other right now favorite TV shows. We splurged and bought ground beef at...
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On the bus to Kigali
Hooray! We've packed out hiking boots and my camera gear and some tiny bananas for the road. Billy (who has done this before) suggested Dramamine, so I brought some just for today. So when we meet our...
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a little Kigali loving.....
We are so enjoying our few days in Kigali. For the past two days I've been out photographing vocational training centers and widowed grannies raising orphans in their homes. I even got to visit a brand...
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The Gorilla Stories - in Rwanda and Rockford
Last July/August, when Billy and I talked about living in East Africa for a season, we looked dreamily back to our days we visited Rwanda as a family in 2006 and remembered fondly all the things that...
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The banana baskets
after such a long post yesterday, I'm going to give you a short one today - pictures to enjoy from our week in Rwanda. This is a project we visited in a rural church where women make baskets out of...
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in praise of grandparents
While we are in East Africa, our kids are in the US. We've talked about this before so I know I'm not breaking any new ground here. But every day I am aware that my family is taking care of my kids....
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about food
Cooking in Burundi is a contact sport somedays. Look at all the twigs and stones and what-what I had to sift out of my dried beans this morning before i could start soaking for tomorrow’s dinner.I...
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newborn
I remember each of my three children in those first hours. Those moments after the drama of birth is over and we sat quietly watching each other. Small eyes trying to focus after endless days forming...
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whether you are a cat lover or not....
... you have to admit that this takes an enormous amount of talent.This is just the current project of a woman I met in Rwanda who can embroider anything - an animal, a flower, a bird - without any...
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long day
We are just getting home after a very long day. A day tangled with good and bad. A day that has left me exhausted. So, off to collapse in bed. But I thought maybe while I am sleeping, you'd enjoy a...
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Enjoy your weekend, friends....
may whatever you choose to do this weekend, bring you life - and the ability to generously share that life with the people who you find yourself next to. we'll see you on Mondayphotos taken at YFC's...
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"this is my story"
“ I am so thankful because what Turame has given to us is more than money. Anyone can beg for money on the streets, but at the end of the day the money is used to buy necessary items and that person is...
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"this is my story" (2)
“You have come to visit our lending group at a good time. A few months ago, I considered myself the least of all these people here. I wouldn’t have been able to go to any of them and ask to borrow...
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selling beans
Owning a business is hard. Marie can buy dried beans in big bags for about US.70cents per kilogram. She then carries those big bags to the market every day where she lays them all out on a table. At...
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she told me it's to carry water
... usually I see people carrying various sizes of yellow jerrycans full of water. Kids bring small ones to school. Laborers tie a scarf around the handle of a large one and sling it over their...
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if you are anything like me....
if you are anything like me, you could do with a little bit of adorable to lighten things up a bit as the week comes to an end... here you go. You are welcome.
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having a wonderful time, wish you were here....
and now, my postcard to you is coming from South Africa. My other home. The place my kids tell me they are homesick for - and as I stand in our old neighborhood surrounded by the people we love, I echo...
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my last weekend in Africa
One of the many things God has gifted us with here in Africa is sweet sweet friendships. On this, our last weekend together in Africa, perhaps for a long, long time - we made plans to go camping with...
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going home
today I am saying my goodbyes to Africa.After more than 4 years - I am packing the last of my things, knowing I'm not returning in a few weeks. Trying to decide what needs to come with me now as we set...
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The Turame Images
It's been a few weeks now since I arrived back in the US. It's a story I'll have to tell you later, because it's messy and will take some intentional unpacking. But today, well this week really, begins...
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Billy just sent me a quick email from his phone. He is sitting in his seat in the plane on the runway ready to fly away from Africa for the last time of this 4+ year mission. He'll land at JFK...
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