“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi I first met Gorethy Nabushosi, founder of Congo Restoration, over hot tea at a La Madeleine up in McKinney, a drive from near downtown Dallas I wouldn’t usually be too thrilled about [...]
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Our second African feast: Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged congo, Congo Restoration, Dallas, DRC, UMCOR on December 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Week nine
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, family, rock climbing on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“My favorite animal is steak.” — Fran Lebowitz We have entered new territory. When I started this blog, committing with my family to eat at least one meal a day together for 53 weeks, the only caveat was that we’d have to change the rules when one of us was out of town. Noah is [...]
Country 8: Morocco
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, Casablanca, Morocco on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Feed your guests, even if you are starving.” — Moroccan proverb I almost made it to Morocco once. I was on a six-month backpacking trip through Europe with a friend and it was high on our agenda as we planned the trip. But just a month into it, having been through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, [...]
Bringing dinner downtown
Posted in dinner, parenting, tagged Dallas, homeless, hunger on December 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
“I’m gonna be honest with you. I’ve already had one. Can I have another?” — woman on the street in Dallas asking for a second baked potato. Two days ago, the kids and I hit a few homeless hot spots near downtown Dallas, passing out sugary treats that were leftover from a Christmas program at [...]
Country 7: Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, genocide, gorillas, orphans, rwanda, women to women international on December 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“The teeth are smiling but is the heart?” — Congo proverb Since coming home from my first trip to Africa in September 2008, I have plotted to go back. My first trip was to Rwanda, site of the 1994 genocide where a million or so people were killed in a three-month period. My second trip, [...]
Week eight
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged blueberry muffins, Christmas, Crete, family dinner, moussaka, Waxahachie on December 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner, American writer and theologian There was no gladness in my house this morning, deep or otherwise. Three nights of too little sleep does two very grumpy children make. In the first hour and [...]
Day 48 — It almost falls apart
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged family, family dinner, overscheduled on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Shit.” — Me, out loud as I realized at 1:30 pm that we’d forgotten to eat breakfast together, weren’t together for lunch and would be in different parts of the city for dinner But no worries, we’re pulling it out in the end. Today is a perfect example of why families don’t eat together. This [...]
Week seven
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged African feast, breakfast, Christmas, congo, Congo Restoration, DRC on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“I do like Christmas on the whole. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ” ~ E.M. Forster The week before Christmas week is always insane. Farrah Fawcett insane; not really hurting anybody but enough to keep you on your toes. So much to do before [...]
Dining with boys
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged boys, bringing dinner back, childhood, Christmas, rock climbing on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” — Plato After 42 days of daily meals together, I can tell you this: The first lesson about the family dinner is commitment. The second is routine. The third is flexibility. The fourth is realizing that the entire idea is unmanageable yet somehow, every day, [...]
Country 6: Guinea
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, American Friends for Guinea, colony, coup, Guinea, ken watts, SOS Children's Villages on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We prefer poverty in freedom to riches in chains.” — Sekou Toure, the first president of Guinea after the country’s independence from France (1958-1984) While Guinea’s leader (the guy who overthrew the government a year ago) recovers from a bullet to the head, the country makes news yet again for its political turmoil. As is [...]
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