Archive for the ‘Vignettes’ Category
Thanks to the girls at St. Mary's in Portland, Ore.
I had a great time this afternoon with the ladies of the comparative religion class at St. Mary’s Academy in leafy downtown Portland. Thanks, ladies, for sharing your knowledge of ‘primal religions’ with me, and letting me share a little bit from my work in Africa with you.
On growing up, and on remembering tragedy
I’m yanking this from the wonderful Molly Langmuir’s blog. It’s so, so true (though my particular fantasy was about being attended on the sidelines of a soccer game after being struck in the face by a soccer ball. Which I was once, without the swooning boys, and therein lies its origins, I think): When I [...]
Kinshasa's Symphony Orchestra
I was so excited to see this today on Wronging Rights, who got it via Congo Resources. There was a really nice guy who ironed guests’ laundry at the hotel where I stayed in Kinshasa. As we waited for him to finish up the last shirt, he said to my friend, “You remind me of [...]
"Oh, there they are!"
Two friends of mine from Rwanda recently got green cards and moved to New York City, where they stay with family. We took advantage of the first beautiful spring Saturday last week and hopped on the Staten Island Ferry for a nice view of the city. I asked offhand if they were glad the weather [...]
Day of babies!
So today, apparently, is Birthing Day in my life. I woke up to Glenna Gordon’s amazing photos of a Liberian maternity ward, where among many other things to be seen is a woman whose baby-in-the-belly is a totally different round bump than anything the tabloids teach. Then I stared reading this article about home births, [...]
I've always been a little weepy, but…for a newspaper?
Today is the last day the Christian Science Monitor publishes a daily paper. To make obvious why, I will tell you that I read the editor’s Note of Metamorphosis online, and that I found note in a Mediabistro.com email, which I read even before I hit the site this morning. But it still makes me [...]
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