“Don’t forget where you come from baby, ’cause there’s truth in it.” — Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls (Ghost of the Gang) Last night, the evening after Thanksgiving, I was sitting at The Nutcracker with a few dear friends, explaining why it is my favorite ballet. The first time I saw it, I was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Our first African feast: Thanksgiving & Zimbabwe
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged Africa, family dinner, pie, Thanksgiving, vegetarian, Zimbabwe on November 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Country 3: Somalia
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, black hawk down, food, malnutrition on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“We will all starve.” — Sheik Ali Gab on what will happen if the U.S. continues to delay aid to Somalia because of fears that aid is assisting terrorists What I knew about Somalia before today was this: Pirates are having a field day off its coast, and the U.S. had a failed mission there [...]
Country 2: Republic of Mali
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, mali on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“In Mali … only 5 percent of the child bearing age women are using modern contraception. Only a limited number of women in Mali have any access to a health service. One in five will lose a newborn during her lifetime.” — Ann Tinker I’d never even heard of the Republic of Mali, a landlocked [...]
Extreme multi-tasking
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged Africa, dinner, family dinner, orphans on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus.” — American proverb Frantic today. Kids are home from school (teacher conferences). Deadlines like crazy. House is filthy and the laundry isn’t done because my housekeeper was sick this week (poor me, right?). Friends coming over for dinner. African soup (vegetarian [...]
Country 1: Rwanda
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, food secure, genocide, gorillas, Left to Tell, orphans, rwanda, rwanda AID, women to women international, zoe ministry on November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“I think Rwanda is going to be paradise.” — Richard, the kind driver who took our group to see the country’s mountain gorillas and told us about his family’s losses during genocide. As part of my mission — feeding my family, feeding Africa, feeding my soul — I will dedicate one weekly post to each [...]
I’m bringing dinner back. Yea.
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, creative coaching, dinner, Greenland Hills, Julie & Julia, rock climbing, rwanda on November 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman Fifty-three weeks of daily meals together starts now. Why? The idea for this blog has been a long time germinating. Three factors within a short [...]
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