Teens in South Africa are just like teens everywhere. They are so focused on their friends, so worried about what other teens will think of them. That focus tends to scare off a lot of adults. Because teens are so focused on other teens, they seem disconnected and uncaring about … Continue reading
Category Archives: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Art Shows and Ego Overthrows
So since my last post about stories I’ve gotten to work on my own stories, letting them go, sometimes hundreds of times each day. Seems I’m not as good at it as I want to be…like a lot of things. The Universe gives me the gift of getting to grow, … Continue reading
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
Re-entry again
The flights were easy and all connections made on time and with ease. We even had two empty seats on our row on the long flight, so I was able to stretch out a bit and sleep a bit more comfortably. We weren’t here for about twenty minutes before I … Continue reading
Learning to Serve and Learning and Learning
We were talking with Robin this afternoon about what we are doing here and what this all means and how we can be in service and I asked her to sum up her thoughts in a guest post. “When I began doing outreach in South Africa, I discovered that … Continue reading