Browsing all posts in August, 2007.

Communities of Hope

The following is a post from the Blood:Water Mission blog which I wrote while in Africa this past May: I’m in Africa. It’s been 9 years since I last set foot on this continent and I must confess that I have missed it greatly. There is a certain rhythm that pulses through this continent; a [...]

Rice Fields to Rush Hour

Life continues on its lazy axial spin and in the ironies of life I find myself in the burbs with a 2-door garage and the proverbial white picket fence. Ex-Khmer Rouge generals shooting burglars across the street, moto-congested streets flooded half a meter deep from monsoon rains, gut soup, and expansive rice fields… all these [...]

A Tribute To My Father

My dad just turned 60 this year. He’s an amazing man for whom I wrote the following: I was 14 and my brother was 11. Collectively, we had trouble tipping the scales at 140 pounds. At 30 feet long and 24 inches in diameter, the tree trunk we were trying to rotate out-weighed us by [...]