I’ve heard some stories. Stories which, in at least one case, I wish I’d never heard and can’t get out of my head. Awful stories. I’m not telling them, in this blog or elsewhere. There are lots of reasons for that. I wish I could unhear them, I wish I … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2012
On fixing and helping and serving and judgment
Thinking about the poverty and the prosperity and how closely they exist in South Africa, and how easy it is to feel bad listening to our stories and looking at our pictures. How can we complain in this country about not having the latest gadget when these people are not … Continue reading
It’s quiet…TOO quiet
So the merry-go-round has finally eased to a stop. The external forces acting upon us have ceased, for the time being. We have a couple of weeks before the next external imperative, the next thing we have to do. There is a space here. We’ve been going and going and … Continue reading