tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76586324146069637522024-03-13T10:49:00.773-04:00das wandernknsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-60022033033482747152010-03-01T11:02:00.000-05:002010-03-01T11:03:12.268-05:00i've changed. <div>i'm sorry. </div><div><br /></div><div>knsayres.wordpress.com</div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-74729430578116369742010-02-19T03:45:00.004-05:002010-02-19T04:03:27.332-05:00<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"><br />im exhausted. the images remain in the camera. </span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"><br />its one of those moments where i need to process the world, before i process those images. </span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"><br />im afraid. im fairly sure that i failed as a journalist on this occasion: i didn’t ask the questions, didn’t get the difficult images. but sometimes you just have to be human.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">there is chance’. she is seven years old—tall, with a tiny scar under her left eye. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">i have no idea what kinds of horror shes seen. a child of the war in the congo. an orphan. raped, abandoned.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">fourteen children are sitting in the small sitting room, watching a film. she’s sitting in the corner, head in her hands. she wont answer questions. she wont look up.<br /><br />but she doesn’t fight when i pick her up, put her in my lap. she curls up against me, and reaches for my hand. and she holds it tightly. </span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">i know that ill never understand these stories. never be able to show the beauty of these children in photographs. ill never do truth justice.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"> but isn'nt it more to love? i want to learn to love. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQG1Gttn9ivjADn0WTIzT0Dsys8pJE1KJezKRXlJy-em99daoXt-QBx_sXRQGlGI0AkIVZJX9s0QzoKb5BjHDkH6yxsjuCoDl5ED4KDJ7TQeX-QqLYHjJNGWy3xMK2HlFQxscA6Zwto4o/s1600-h/_KNS3774.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQG1Gttn9ivjADn0WTIzT0Dsys8pJE1KJezKRXlJy-em99daoXt-QBx_sXRQGlGI0AkIVZJX9s0QzoKb5BjHDkH6yxsjuCoDl5ED4KDJ7TQeX-QqLYHjJNGWy3xMK2HlFQxscA6Zwto4o/s320/_KNS3774.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439876198745631602" border="0" /></a>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-62902214444982477942009-12-30T03:42:00.005-05:002009-12-30T08:02:21.793-05:00<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">sanyati</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">zimbabwe</span></span><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">sanyati</span></span> baptist hospital continues to serve hundreds of patients each day, even with chronic shortages of water, electricity and essential medicine. with the economic crisis in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">zimbabwe</span></span>, the bush <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">hospital</span> lacks even basic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">supplies</span> like <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">mattresses</span> and ceilings.<br /><br />the week i was there, a shipment of medicines from baptist global response arrived. these medicines have allowed the hospital to continue treating patients, even when the rest of the country has shut down.<br /><br />baptist global response hopes to complete a renovation of the facility in the near future.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mOp43B02SPU3qyYdLD-zlAmWtT69YIsul6vuIRUC732y_J29ZwJIUS9-WoLjIIzND8gkiyn_QiPWbokQONGtKmYIEWuAeGMox4fHZkW_ezGRN0_jDvjw9vBFYjv2_JgP0WWlgNVAoMI/s1600-h/_MG_7108.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mOp43B02SPU3qyYdLD-zlAmWtT69YIsul6vuIRUC732y_J29ZwJIUS9-WoLjIIzND8gkiyn_QiPWbokQONGtKmYIEWuAeGMox4fHZkW_ezGRN0_jDvjw9vBFYjv2_JgP0WWlgNVAoMI/s320/_MG_7108.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421012353673556226" border="0" /></a>a woman with a broke hip lies near her open bible in the inpatient ward of the hospital.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZLURPTVfDaRWvb2AkWr8ICRDv2Kfok5ubHyjW_Ih2KCZyAFjgYjIDcPXyTY-I5wEwm7-eunbsU5bivaY5ZR3ySjVHZsIXPf1IOzxJDK-IC8vMkytFhHTlx0M6dzpmJmGe5nqFq6v-ODU/s1600-h/_MG_7549.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZLURPTVfDaRWvb2AkWr8ICRDv2Kfok5ubHyjW_Ih2KCZyAFjgYjIDcPXyTY-I5wEwm7-eunbsU5bivaY5ZR3ySjVHZsIXPf1IOzxJDK-IC8vMkytFhHTlx0M6dzpmJmGe5nqFq6v-ODU/s320/_MG_7549.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421012360286412594" border="0" /></a>the hospital chaplain prays with a patient.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizGGm7C8UA8ixgj3PGl27RTh_2ptEtXj_0UJWckjfL9VLqtsbC-UQvF67zfBQkxAhWdPYY7fufHnBQZRwdP5HjH1FQQZm11wlkFmhHUnvNtPqxv5f-AbRQiljzIe0Zy11U1liWa3DrGw/s1600-h/_MG_6908.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizGGm7C8UA8ixgj3PGl27RTh_2ptEtXj_0UJWckjfL9VLqtsbC-UQvF67zfBQkxAhWdPYY7fufHnBQZRwdP5HjH1FQQZm11wlkFmhHUnvNtPqxv5f-AbRQiljzIe0Zy11U1liWa3DrGw/s320/_MG_6908.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421012346660730514" border="0" /></a>the children's ward quickly became my favorite place at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">sanyati</span>. here are three of my closest friends there: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">benhilda</span>, basil, and the baby.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT48p1ilWBVYgriGaFlNnqe4CLE0J0OQykE0VYweMhzw6oMjh7CrTAxzpa6gozqbX1VhCPkWgnUw-BAmuBMsX-YQ4C9dInScWoik-nrpbX8G4iTMMQmWZLedU63cqvSPA_VsltWxnWm4o/s1600-h/_MG_7782.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT48p1ilWBVYgriGaFlNnqe4CLE0J0OQykE0VYweMhzw6oMjh7CrTAxzpa6gozqbX1VhCPkWgnUw-BAmuBMsX-YQ4C9dInScWoik-nrpbX8G4iTMMQmWZLedU63cqvSPA_VsltWxnWm4o/s320/_MG_7782.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421012335017805138" border="0" /></a>a mother comforts her young son who is unable to move from his bed.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8RGu1Aas7MlM0qerSoUdV5YDxbBK_Yz_CsPH40Ou-Lc5vkrZNaQpVUEFASBEPhb5kC5mmGzaoNUoCwe9yGtoYCIGkHUHt0IY74uhofdSSjG9xTu3XNUMWkJdBkTBLqwmcircf9K9jjQ/s1600-h/_MG_6646.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8RGu1Aas7MlM0qerSoUdV5YDxbBK_Yz_CsPH40Ou-Lc5vkrZNaQpVUEFASBEPhb5kC5mmGzaoNUoCwe9yGtoYCIGkHUHt0IY74uhofdSSjG9xTu3XNUMWkJdBkTBLqwmcircf9K9jjQ/s320/_MG_6646.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421012329525099106" border="0" /></a>a man gets his vitals checked before he sees the doctor. one doctor provides care for hundreds of clinic patients each day, as well inpatient care.<br /></div><br />(i <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">dont</span> have my notebook. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">i'll</span> (maybe) update the captions with names later.)knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-45977015071943667642009-11-06T13:45:00.001-05:002009-11-06T13:47:48.257-05:00(a beautiful poem, from a true and beautiful friend)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>instructions upon entering darkness<br /><br />You must hibernate:<div>Gather food, </div><div>Hold your rosary, </div><div>Hope (try to).</div><div><br /></div><div>Always surround yourself with books, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not to read (necessarily)</div><div>But to remind yourself that some things</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>do last</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and new stories are retold.</div><div>Transformation with time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't talk too much, </div><div>Lips need slumber too.</div><div>Learn to listen, </div><div>Ears need constant vigilance.</div><div>Pray, </div><div>Only then will you know inherent value.</div><div><br /></div><div>Drink wine with friends who don't </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rush your pain.</div><div>Believe that humility rarely shows</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>up without humiliation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turn your face to the sky:</div><div>The earth will continue to rotate around an axis</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>toward the sun's rays.</div><div>Winter is coming, </div><div>Spring will come after.</div><div>The deep sleep will be aroused...</div><div>It will.</div><div><br /></div><div>A frozen river still rushes water deep within.</div><div><br /></div><div>And when the ice does thaw, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>don't forget.</div><div>The sea was parted, the walls were tumbled, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the way was prepared.</div><div>Remember--for this will come again--</div><div>Just as the leaves fall, fertilize and recloak</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the oaks of righteousness.<br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://rebeccamcneilsmith.blogspot.com/">rebecca mcneil smith</a><br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-90889383496576438952009-10-14T20:32:00.001-04:002009-10-14T20:36:20.607-04:00<div style="padding-left: 1em;">a poem i love. which, i think, could also be appropriately titled, how to be alive.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><br /></div><h2>How To Be a Poet</h2> <p>by Wendell Berry </p> <p><i>(to remind myself)</i></p> <div style="padding-left: 1em;"> i </div><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em;">Make a place to sit down. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Sit down. Be quiet. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">You must depend upon </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">affection, reading, knowledge, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">skill—more of each </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">than you have—inspiration, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">work, growing older, patience, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">for patience joins time </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">to eternity. Any readers </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">who like your poems, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">doubt their judgment. </div><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em;"> ii </div><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em;">Breathe with unconditional breath </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">the unconditioned air. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Shun electric wire. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Communicate slowly. Live </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">a three-dimensioned life; </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">stay away from screens. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Stay away from anything </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">that obscures the place it is in. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">There are no unsacred places; </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">there are only sacred places </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">and desecrated places. </div><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em;"> iii </div><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em;">Accept what comes from silence. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Make the best you can of it. </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">Of the little words that come </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">out of the silence, like prayers </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">prayed back to the one who prays, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">make a poem that does not disturb </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em;">the silence from which it came.</div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-26192234938931928602009-10-14T13:15:00.000-04:002009-10-14T13:16:32.190-04:00more <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ykspnzl">photos</a> of the street boys in nairobi.knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-68281121436184277612009-10-02T15:43:00.001-04:002009-10-02T15:43:26.262-04:00<blockquote><p>You who are God’s servants are living in a foreign country, for your own city-state is far away from this city-state. Knowing which is yours, why do you acquire fields, costly furnishings, buildings, and frail dwellings here? Anyone who acquired things for himself in this city cannot expect to find the way home to his own City. Do you not realize that all these things here do not belong to you, that they are under a power alien to your nature? The ruler will say you do not obey my laws, either observe my laws or get out of my country, Take care lest it prove fatal to you to repudiate your own laws. Acquire no more here than what is absolutely necessary. Instead of fields, buy for yourselves people in distress in accordance with your means.</p> <p>-Hermas, 140 AD</p></blockquote>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-82245468100456801542009-08-30T08:49:00.005-04:002009-08-30T18:10:07.453-04:00remember that time sam went to college?<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_7QryYV4_OTy0IQnZSyIloOwx_r6dYQ-Xz3LC1vG5dR9T0bvS2KSKpyj4cbpho6ajc6IwHbIjf0nn1I4FpRy7_MS_HMkkwXj37uJOaDo_oaYNEFTbeWEwl3bSr979v75tnK76A8K1G8/s1600-h/_KNS1498.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_7QryYV4_OTy0IQnZSyIloOwx_r6dYQ-Xz3LC1vG5dR9T0bvS2KSKpyj4cbpho6ajc6IwHbIjf0nn1I4FpRy7_MS_HMkkwXj37uJOaDo_oaYNEFTbeWEwl3bSr979v75tnK76A8K1G8/s400/_KNS1498.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742989610346674" border="0" /></a>this is when sam drives.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBSKAXj3VqP73TkOxocP4UjUOVImEkeA97bQeHNkJT6B5nBJeWCHSWLEUsy23bUymzoiRc7o0RBHJggmXo-5vEz65OW3CmJU_G1krN5livmvQnaAMC23JA5a6aDykCpUZahTTz4EfBAM/s1600-h/_KNS1517.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBSKAXj3VqP73TkOxocP4UjUOVImEkeA97bQeHNkJT6B5nBJeWCHSWLEUsy23bUymzoiRc7o0RBHJggmXo-5vEz65OW3CmJU_G1krN5livmvQnaAMC23JA5a6aDykCpUZahTTz4EfBAM/s400/_KNS1517.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375882369144347234" border="0" /></a>when sam pretends to be a lazy hippie.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheER3SXSGT_pEpx8k52K3xNVvPW7RgqoT6EEiqgI02NrCEVRppUUbVDWcWaMFuZe2FsGeZa3H9-yQsSB8lJ2ydpuugCsZLjB3TDmuVRu-F4k0E0bhGJdybKqp4S2Qy8LL90Lj2LOCn_8s/s1600-h/_KNS1524.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheER3SXSGT_pEpx8k52K3xNVvPW7RgqoT6EEiqgI02NrCEVRppUUbVDWcWaMFuZe2FsGeZa3H9-yQsSB8lJ2ydpuugCsZLjB3TDmuVRu-F4k0E0bhGJdybKqp4S2Qy8LL90Lj2LOCn_8s/s400/_KNS1524.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742979119693570" border="0" /></a>when i take a gratuitous self portrait.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tLKdu0i4nI15DWYaUCh0KRQQHtpZEbocwdrjv0LP3feWgNhGmDyDFg_DGTkF1a_8zlajobkr45PsJzNftU0Ye66clkYl6zoTcYeN11Psf0Arzm3gwBcyEOG4BVnFiq8PQOhBrQj2l6Q/s1600-h/_KNS1527.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tLKdu0i4nI15DWYaUCh0KRQQHtpZEbocwdrjv0LP3feWgNhGmDyDFg_DGTkF1a_8zlajobkr45PsJzNftU0Ye66clkYl6zoTcYeN11Psf0Arzm3gwBcyEOG4BVnFiq8PQOhBrQj2l6Q/s400/_KNS1527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742973740946610" border="0" /></a>when sam makes her crazyface.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3C5Pq2FrvhRgJyXGxCuo5YUL8so94xRWHd0qnyjP35yta3AOorlf3XNy7pAedhKxRyoeL38jn_XsTn08_h03eUb8tDJIdQd9tWO9qp8gd2ULWPPuAdBIGvfqx_jltMgasufSAlBLvwhI/s1600-h/_KNS1551.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3C5Pq2FrvhRgJyXGxCuo5YUL8so94xRWHd0qnyjP35yta3AOorlf3XNy7pAedhKxRyoeL38jn_XsTn08_h03eUb8tDJIdQd9tWO9qp8gd2ULWPPuAdBIGvfqx_jltMgasufSAlBLvwhI/s400/_KNS1551.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742369988376354" border="0" /></a>when sam pretends to be literate.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRBKYWj-T4-PvKH0EGWUMbkMcW7iI87IO0v1kmjYjI_GlPcK8fREdJtHIxPAIlZObvJ3AROebYUItjEpAjh5MV07-jPGnj6bl16azsFNxYzBrazTKuZGnOvpKe_J50jwvnXYhEZOf7yc/s1600-h/_KNS1568.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRBKYWj-T4-PvKH0EGWUMbkMcW7iI87IO0v1kmjYjI_GlPcK8fREdJtHIxPAIlZObvJ3AROebYUItjEpAjh5MV07-jPGnj6bl16azsFNxYzBrazTKuZGnOvpKe_J50jwvnXYhEZOf7yc/s400/_KNS1568.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742362364923378" border="0" /></a>when sam is pretty.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK2u_QIzhynlUrWm7PbdGEE9LPbyS_86BzHd6cK2-wAs0gh6BFKbMf4HgbyMfYMGZ66r7hwKebJPgSUGH1kg0BcLUXxGnLKisLvUKoS5JNSVjQjkQdOUm0zuj4Pely93LqXZcSjIwhKfk/s1600-h/_KNS1574.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK2u_QIzhynlUrWm7PbdGEE9LPbyS_86BzHd6cK2-wAs0gh6BFKbMf4HgbyMfYMGZ66r7hwKebJPgSUGH1kg0BcLUXxGnLKisLvUKoS5JNSVjQjkQdOUm0zuj4Pely93LqXZcSjIwhKfk/s400/_KNS1574.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742360438373650" border="0" /></a>when dad is displeased.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxX-nb4MtNDJ-TPbrAWXHQ0pSbqNERKAvkS8LRK-wlH7rLIVAufEO4-gbwF3uQfpVkUWvfG3FedgsssCydq1turydcMW3HUOEsxixJjS7T6cPI32t9blbfDCKjeoVRYJBpMXXLfkXPFqs/s1600-h/_KNS1584.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxX-nb4MtNDJ-TPbrAWXHQ0pSbqNERKAvkS8LRK-wlH7rLIVAufEO4-gbwF3uQfpVkUWvfG3FedgsssCydq1turydcMW3HUOEsxixJjS7T6cPI32t9blbfDCKjeoVRYJBpMXXLfkXPFqs/s400/_KNS1584.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742349150273922" border="0" /></a>when mom is happy.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibH4Hr-JRbjgp7vZBjf9UNkarllrsqolk5al-Bway4CTtjeZpuzPrx23ytNRWDLyVRQcvB4J-DUbCUime5boVELkymdNbdmR0sF1IOTxW3squWPegHk3jgDVutx58GkrZZjqDsB55_HVA/s1600-h/_KNS1591.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibH4Hr-JRbjgp7vZBjf9UNkarllrsqolk5al-Bway4CTtjeZpuzPrx23ytNRWDLyVRQcvB4J-DUbCUime5boVELkymdNbdmR0sF1IOTxW3squWPegHk3jgDVutx58GkrZZjqDsB55_HVA/s400/_KNS1591.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375742344492697922" border="0" /></a>when sam tries to electrocute the baby.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyhJpN56pm_GDG90-v5KivFGMg1r8WZVqCHwMBBHeOLxkH_uPKommm9kdOCJ3VzfLtdC-cH6BkLaIYq6nWPiRNrmXfGuQ52N-I9vkRgOo3i8hZUCHxVLpq9FieMlvZfSj9nsK9pQI3zs/s1600-h/_KNS1616.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyhJpN56pm_GDG90-v5KivFGMg1r8WZVqCHwMBBHeOLxkH_uPKommm9kdOCJ3VzfLtdC-cH6BkLaIYq6nWPiRNrmXfGuQ52N-I9vkRgOo3i8hZUCHxVLpq9FieMlvZfSj9nsK9pQI3zs/s400/_KNS1616.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375741637539963970" border="0" /></a>hannah at dinner. (sam and hannah have known each other since they were tiny babies in memphis.)<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37AVCSpuyTq8ped3LwWXxqi4tgd6xXRh5zlsJ_LQMUddqmZ6rgIxnUbwd5fSPt2iyQtZ_ndS7wKrfU5Jjv84qzBMo5nhjsYSdY_71bOjOzjdV9gyCQPxARQJubijpdmgTxEYNC19SSnU/s1600-h/_KNS1621.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37AVCSpuyTq8ped3LwWXxqi4tgd6xXRh5zlsJ_LQMUddqmZ6rgIxnUbwd5fSPt2iyQtZ_ndS7wKrfU5Jjv84qzBMo5nhjsYSdY_71bOjOzjdV9gyCQPxARQJubijpdmgTxEYNC19SSnU/s400/_KNS1621.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375741633199911586" border="0" /></a>papaw. (papaw was our next-door neighbor/grandfather growing up.)<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2O5T-ek_OiM2NzqRonZ3ELpQ85ULh9Vz2NbMVbP9ZmF2n2vtgDw1wlMLhPR-cjaI1p3sTfT582yN6mV57_htMbpChVS4OtGAMjXokXVjzmxl_RVfPrZctFHj9hmknNui9N1Bqr_121nY/s1600-h/_KNS1624.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2O5T-ek_OiM2NzqRonZ3ELpQ85ULh9Vz2NbMVbP9ZmF2n2vtgDw1wlMLhPR-cjaI1p3sTfT582yN6mV57_htMbpChVS4OtGAMjXokXVjzmxl_RVfPrZctFHj9hmknNui9N1Bqr_121nY/s400/_KNS1624.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375741624255537330" border="0" /></a>taylorday. (a friend ive known since i was about two.)<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIst19xc4Th6EHdGNv5kBPwF8gVOq-BgUnlwG9Pj3wH0olXiRt8nwoeuvETrd6QEO-NfGUDbywtiHq-Jj9pVEBE9GE1GKlHupwMx3bwbKgsShiB7KBYaC0IbrQFsm-D2fNR83WMjRCMU/s1600-h/_KNS1642.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIst19xc4Th6EHdGNv5kBPwF8gVOq-BgUnlwG9Pj3wH0olXiRt8nwoeuvETrd6QEO-NfGUDbywtiHq-Jj9pVEBE9GE1GKlHupwMx3bwbKgsShiB7KBYaC0IbrQFsm-D2fNR83WMjRCMU/s400/_KNS1642.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375741619193277602" border="0" /></a>mother and daughter. (laura and layla at dinner.)<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlrehe7bgqj2xk1aZqt2GpJCGUAAJ33P4CSGCSbX9jZH8vdAonq87f6FvZpE1M4-NF2L06XwHuMOcVLVVCOOTHCMOAUadZo4InnWTw2fbaD5Zdk3JrMWA7e4909S8uVGBJguj13SGZB8/s1600-h/_KNS1656.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlrehe7bgqj2xk1aZqt2GpJCGUAAJ33P4CSGCSbX9jZH8vdAonq87f6FvZpE1M4-NF2L06XwHuMOcVLVVCOOTHCMOAUadZo4InnWTw2fbaD5Zdk3JrMWA7e4909S8uVGBJguj13SGZB8/s400/_KNS1656.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375741611277746226" border="0" /></a>sam and hannah.<br /><br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-79256664629714982932009-08-23T06:05:00.003-04:002009-08-23T14:00:02.485-04:00lesotho, part 3<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwPUhGPZ4VyiX572FrtxYDzMWsky0s7anjIIaI8kArzWcXI_JCF_-YPwNrjrmDl-PBzXQN15toZaHMxMCpZduAtMy3BCwt0NYdMDswPsGRnhZ5xamPVyZNPzZ-VTjTuUF9-eQy1js4bEc/s1600-h/2009180kns1136.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwPUhGPZ4VyiX572FrtxYDzMWsky0s7anjIIaI8kArzWcXI_JCF_-YPwNrjrmDl-PBzXQN15toZaHMxMCpZduAtMy3BCwt0NYdMDswPsGRnhZ5xamPVyZNPzZ-VTjTuUF9-eQy1js4bEc/s400/2009180kns1136.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373099512157663826" border="0" /></a>john stokes the coal fire one evening when the temperature drops below freezing.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NSAAjPX1REtILvZoQUVfUkyRhnANNaQtz5LkIOIJ8us9MMMw3TaRrNNLSfWuWg0kzR3mBQTDv5SFHsRKGJ8RC7J4OVrQo3VonBf2r49vD8YtoNrQ6BsxLRneH2UzsUIZxjJV6adJy2M/s1600-h/2009180kns1867.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NSAAjPX1REtILvZoQUVfUkyRhnANNaQtz5LkIOIJ8us9MMMw3TaRrNNLSfWuWg0kzR3mBQTDv5SFHsRKGJ8RC7J4OVrQo3VonBf2r49vD8YtoNrQ6BsxLRneH2UzsUIZxjJV6adJy2M/s400/2009180kns1867.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373099525981407986" border="0" /></a>therron reads and reflects on a sunday morning before church.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucb-p51qBB4e1qnfkqPZ3QpV9-EpVjLmJ_lwuqQF7Pdu2EYqvT-zfHm85q1NfZs8p7J3MOp2IKoouXASq3fYuZF1MdUstaOfWoZpnrxMp6dPDibx8hrMR6c_K3XQOev22QJyaB_t5HHM/s1600-h/2009180kns1871.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucb-p51qBB4e1qnfkqPZ3QpV9-EpVjLmJ_lwuqQF7Pdu2EYqvT-zfHm85q1NfZs8p7J3MOp2IKoouXASq3fYuZF1MdUstaOfWoZpnrxMp6dPDibx8hrMR6c_K3XQOev22QJyaB_t5HHM/s400/2009180kns1871.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373099539352218066" border="0" /></a>the guys have a ton of time for reading. it is like a winter sabbatical, surrounded by beauty and the company of good thinkers.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixg0p8N6quFET_raHwc1D28gGWrrLDBVQn7slh0YR3bgcr4JhvARgj_jpIbr0hbCnezYKrwbZCQe72hnjQYuBGA_hbDi4hCQPdD715B8oREDny4hUEe9jut9CWN-lzb4_kVDD62cQOxmE/s1600-h/2009180kns1932.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixg0p8N6quFET_raHwc1D28gGWrrLDBVQn7slh0YR3bgcr4JhvARgj_jpIbr0hbCnezYKrwbZCQe72hnjQYuBGA_hbDi4hCQPdD715B8oREDny4hUEe9jut9CWN-lzb4_kVDD62cQOxmE/s400/2009180kns1932.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373099555547808418" border="0" /></a>john plays football with some of the village children before church.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoD9uLaxQlqwsD50DSNjZN1SFisI_agBvTs6DesQgYqS_esFc2UROuLfalDAJNO9MCRBGKTQxjOaTStHIaPPxIRDeZ_G5cg3sW_5Dd4gE0YVEwTzHXwQO5yoJlCFfi-bjwnYARg02M74/s1600-h/2009180kns1439.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoD9uLaxQlqwsD50DSNjZN1SFisI_agBvTs6DesQgYqS_esFc2UROuLfalDAJNO9MCRBGKTQxjOaTStHIaPPxIRDeZ_G5cg3sW_5Dd4gE0YVEwTzHXwQO5yoJlCFfi-bjwnYARg02M74/s400/2009180kns1439.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373099519759532306" border="0" /></a>john holds a young girl as they wait for her parents to get home.<br /><br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-36685529632541087052009-08-22T02:36:00.001-04:002009-08-22T04:52:21.663-04:00lesotho, part 2<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_PT0IuoryO-KWfar_fyXYDEE16SlF5nuDJKXQdhddeANTbYHa_Px3J684SYDPo4M31QPqp6PyBM2vqF_pwm5gihcRTRMekatV1ZYDXbOnNO1Z901NJBu2MGJ9ZxBfq9fDiI23tA0QMw/s1600-h/2009180kns1455.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_PT0IuoryO-KWfar_fyXYDEE16SlF5nuDJKXQdhddeANTbYHa_Px3J684SYDPo4M31QPqp6PyBM2vqF_pwm5gihcRTRMekatV1ZYDXbOnNO1Z901NJBu2MGJ9ZxBfq9fDiI23tA0QMw/s400/2009180kns1455.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372674667414159954" border="0" /></a>i think this is my favorite image from this coverage. therron shows a young girl how to blow a dandelion.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlim3rNaIGYOZKk2Bn7ps1Cmtu0l6O2vvUcBjmIbAz3QUXJzx93JAJ7N-1m6KJqTJ8gM4Az4H-wsmw-0BbRGSL_5vp9sBelvyxhY6P-W2jC86BgKGYBuy8cKSnuiN-itJfr-_5CXwMY8o/s1600-h/2009180kns0407.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlim3rNaIGYOZKk2Bn7ps1Cmtu0l6O2vvUcBjmIbAz3QUXJzx93JAJ7N-1m6KJqTJ8gM4Az4H-wsmw-0BbRGSL_5vp9sBelvyxhY6P-W2jC86BgKGYBuy8cKSnuiN-itJfr-_5CXwMY8o/s400/2009180kns0407.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372674656512556642" border="0" /></a>john and therron work in the corn fields with a local pastor.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRnqXZWwmh75fd_VblxMkoKeZhHukJHwBjqzls0g1eMh1BpH_OhaCuY0d9f-_HJuj-HK3RP4a0ciZhShGsJhMSESimrgU7xoLefYnE0aXakQRRbr65f23K6GF_mmpk1MNXxC-FIVytmnc/s1600-h/2009180kns0364.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRnqXZWwmh75fd_VblxMkoKeZhHukJHwBjqzls0g1eMh1BpH_OhaCuY0d9f-_HJuj-HK3RP4a0ciZhShGsJhMSESimrgU7xoLefYnE0aXakQRRbr65f23K6GF_mmpk1MNXxC-FIVytmnc/s400/2009180kns0364.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372674648792010450" border="0" /></a>john throws an ear of corn into the harvest pile.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgWSFKLgppiRZiCwhsZzZ1D8w7HL_tcozppmn-4042tsr7gl3qRo5LogWwhyizjbIupNRaXhNP1Wpy8PlWNf-yvDcJfbjNT4vXv0zaCfycx4apkmca7_gz4RlD4ghyIHCmpDtuImp5dA/s1600-h/2009180kns1957.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgWSFKLgppiRZiCwhsZzZ1D8w7HL_tcozppmn-4042tsr7gl3qRo5LogWwhyizjbIupNRaXhNP1Wpy8PlWNf-yvDcJfbjNT4vXv0zaCfycx4apkmca7_gz4RlD4ghyIHCmpDtuImp5dA/s400/2009180kns1957.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372674638371001330" border="0" /></a>john plays with a little boy, swinging him around in circles, before church on a sunday morning.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TjrSYoomlBSvu37WbVV7ihMzYA7r6TksBx1BW0WcVLGK6PRvprqxY6J_J2tPIwURyC4BIo3bPRY9UrTkMX9Ol7bZmNkUEfQNiiPPivbhj5vlG-u0VkIRovoEYHPM0Nz1k4SsnCTy7VY/s1600-h/2009180kns1314.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TjrSYoomlBSvu37WbVV7ihMzYA7r6TksBx1BW0WcVLGK6PRvprqxY6J_J2tPIwURyC4BIo3bPRY9UrTkMX9Ol7bZmNkUEfQNiiPPivbhj5vlG-u0VkIRovoEYHPM0Nz1k4SsnCTy7VY/s400/2009180kns1314.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372674627387317698" border="0" /></a>john and therron spend some time talking to a man on their way home from visiting shepherds at the top of the mountain.<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-89494913029932458812009-08-21T02:04:00.006-04:002009-08-21T09:40:47.179-04:00lesotho, part 1<br /><br />while i was in lesotho a couple months ago (difficult to believe it was a that long ago), we met three men serving as "winter missionaries" serving in a remote area of the kingdom.<br /><br />john, drew and therron spent their summer living in a village in the mountains. they went with a commission: "be jesus in that place."<br /><br />no electricity, no running water and very cold nights. they spent their days working in the fields with the men, playing with children from the village, helping build gardens. at night drank tea and hot chocolate, reading the saints by candlelight: merton and tozer and lewis and all of the rest.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1WUnRenqhaJGdpD_MlPJzpag3w01dEdyWtg17Y4UJa7aBeWHWRTsln5rkydBg59cRxZP4mzIZG22Y961TcsU-S8woJeQwA9yqPip9eWhk4I_l6T5ypVWYWJQf0wDrS6OlKSZFCKJKWo/s1600-h/2009180kns2068.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1WUnRenqhaJGdpD_MlPJzpag3w01dEdyWtg17Y4UJa7aBeWHWRTsln5rkydBg59cRxZP4mzIZG22Y961TcsU-S8woJeQwA9yqPip9eWhk4I_l6T5ypVWYWJQf0wDrS6OlKSZFCKJKWo/s400/2009180kns2068.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372296384395645842" border="0" /></a>the guys lived in the small house next to the local baptist church.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK7l9UA3gGys43C9zZZp5LBSUav5ZTZJOCUgjVbYG6xFIbnqi6S7h-lVnl4lr4XYtfR3LBDABOw1lUX3hEUsCFo66Pk8xIw3vq326_Za8X9spy9te7kdaTEGrF_Jf6bEe6vzzIBYycR-g/s1600-h/2009180kns1856.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK7l9UA3gGys43C9zZZp5LBSUav5ZTZJOCUgjVbYG6xFIbnqi6S7h-lVnl4lr4XYtfR3LBDABOw1lUX3hEUsCFo66Pk8xIw3vq326_Za8X9spy9te7kdaTEGrF_Jf6bEe6vzzIBYycR-g/s400/2009180kns1856.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372296357305149858" border="0" /></a>drew, wrapped in a sleeping bag and several blankets, sleeps on the floor of the small shack. on sunday mornings, the guys sleep in, reading and enjoying some down time before church.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkX8tYXqnQmA8QIdjd7owH42AMy6HI9wOrUfk-C7icAFA4brWYM-SxGBefs2r8zOtwCYPqs8Y6SRKcRsVu_s4XQRE-6vs0_NMQtEL_RGP7hU_IBwJu0e-rV3eYdAwIqDXd0YT4rTwUKwM/s1600-h/2009180kns1841.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkX8tYXqnQmA8QIdjd7owH42AMy6HI9wOrUfk-C7icAFA4brWYM-SxGBefs2r8zOtwCYPqs8Y6SRKcRsVu_s4XQRE-6vs0_NMQtEL_RGP7hU_IBwJu0e-rV3eYdAwIqDXd0YT4rTwUKwM/s400/2009180kns1841.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372296364837414626" border="0" /></a>the guys share morning coffee and reading on a very cold sunday morning.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHNADZvQXylZipfcSgYv_cSFKl6s2xphRr-5FJenr0bDXyz-Cepd4Eg6WWwTVBK_gITlaI6QX8ErTX3YnW5TOqG4UpZB_FrzLCzqXvr9uA1BjYbkFOfbL0wZkgL4KPn_HvvUyosJniRk/s1600-h/2009180kns1213.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHNADZvQXylZipfcSgYv_cSFKl6s2xphRr-5FJenr0bDXyz-Cepd4Eg6WWwTVBK_gITlaI6QX8ErTX3YnW5TOqG4UpZB_FrzLCzqXvr9uA1BjYbkFOfbL0wZkgL4KPn_HvvUyosJniRk/s400/2009180kns1213.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372296377312774098" border="0" /></a>the guys hike up a mountain early one morning to spend time with the shepherds who stay there.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexfJZfJn4ctV7RGpmKk8IqYwIqe0l_6CwYGuDrphlCI309z7wX7ebCZz2J_ZXVlv8_CNpak7KB1y2OsPIarRqCxX_jimgUx4SzZdY_bayCYdgGcW8VkFs2rZr4ebtOJ3vBVzBXkDUevs/s1600-h/2009180kns1287.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexfJZfJn4ctV7RGpmKk8IqYwIqe0l_6CwYGuDrphlCI309z7wX7ebCZz2J_ZXVlv8_CNpak7KB1y2OsPIarRqCxX_jimgUx4SzZdY_bayCYdgGcW8VkFs2rZr4ebtOJ3vBVzBXkDUevs/s400/2009180kns1287.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372296373509258562" border="0" /></a>drew and john make their way back down the mountain<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">more tomorrow. (maybe.)<br /></div></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-76960859127461229062009-08-19T18:31:00.001-04:002009-08-19T18:34:56.740-04:00Please Call Me By My True Names<br />Thich Nhat Hanh<br /><br /> Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --<br />even today I am still arriving.<br /><br />Look deeply: every second I am arriving<br />to be a bud on a Spring branch,<br />to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,<br />learning to sing in my new nest,<br />to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,<br />to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.<br /><br />I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,<br />to fear and to hope.<br /><br />The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death<br />of all that is alive.<br /><br />I am the mayfly metamorphosing<br />on the surface of the river.<br />And I am the bird<br />that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.<br /><br />I am the frog swimming happily<br />in the clear water of a pond.<br />And I am the grass-snake<br />that silently feeds itself on the frog.<br /><br />I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,<br />my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.<br />And I am the arms merchant,<br />selling deadly weapons to Uganda.<br /><br />I am the twelve-year-old girl,<br />refugee on a small boat,<br />who throws herself into the ocean<br />after being raped by a sea pirate.<br />And I am the pirate,<br />my heart not yet capable<br />of seeing and loving.<br /><br />I am a member of the politburo,<br />with plenty of power in my hands.<br />And I am the man who has to pay<br />his "debt of blood" to my people<br />dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.<br /><br />My joy is like Spring, so warm<br />it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.<br />My pain is like a river of tears,<br />so vast it fills the four oceans.<br /><br />Please call me by my true names,<br />so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,<br />so I can see that my joy and pain are one.<br /><br />Please call me by my true names,<br />so I can wake up,<br />and so the door of my heart<br />can be left open,<br />the door of compassion.knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-70682792312066059662009-07-26T15:23:00.000-04:002009-07-26T15:24:03.071-04:00<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size: small;">MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.<br />I do not see the road ahead of me.<br />I cannot know for certain where it will end.<br />Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.<br />But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.<br />And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.<br />I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.<br />And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.<br />Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.<br />I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<br /><br />- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"<br /></span></span>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-77171407220880333012009-07-24T15:35:00.005-04:002009-07-24T15:49:10.007-04:00a letter, from my friend eunice.Dear friends,<br /><br />My names are Eunice Ng'ang'a and am a volunteer with Colours of the Cross-Nairobi Street Kids Ministry. We basically make an effort to try and reach out to the street children.<br />I would like to introduce to you the late Antony Maina aka Maish.<br />Maish met his death on 23/07/2009 at Riverside(a back street nairobi downtown) at around 11am after he was hit by a matatu (minibus) that was trying to overtake while standing on the side of the road. he died while being rushed to hospital.His body is lying at they city mortuary. i went over to see him this afternoon-it was very hard!this may not be new to some of us on the conditions of city mortuaty and would not want to go into details of what a saw.We are trying to reach his parents and relatives and i wish we could move his body to chiromo as we venture into this,the conditions are much better there. Maish ran away from home at least 6yrs ago after his mother died and his father remarried.his step mom was however not so nice to him and he ran way.after being on the street for sometime he realised life was harder there and decided to go back home but the reception he got made him think otherwise and he opted to be on the street.Before he met his death we had a chance of hanging out with him and his friends every day for one week for atleast 2-3hrs in the company of his friends.when we(my friend Kristen and i) interved him on friday 17/07/2009 he expressed his wish to go back home ask for his parents forgiveness and hopefully go back to school(std 6). Maish has had a lot of shortcomings as well as making many wrong decisions in life but if you had a chance to interact with him he was agreat kid!there is so much to say about him.however at a tender age( about 17yrs) he never got the chance to correct his mistakes but he was sorry about it all!as we give him a decent send off please remember the at least 20 young boys(between 10-18yrs) and 1 girl(13yrs) at the base where he stayed(riverside).this not mentioning all the other countless street kids all over this country and the world at large.<br /><br />If you feel compelled to join us as we purpose to give Maish a decent send off please write back (eunice_ngng@yahoo.com) or call me on 0723 741 704.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />Eunice.<br /><br />(<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126450938222">facebook link</a>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1HENVko6iomDCMsq-Tz75oZVrfBv6zbgQxIcS9WILn7XSGLNU_EfQoXn4Nt_RtPaYCBurRtI0cP8I4qyHbye1MrAPH1sYQsYfvh6yPzgO4w1GTojezd7lBpgUS1vI-kukQU3nJ0YakM/s1600-h/_KNS0787.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1HENVko6iomDCMsq-Tz75oZVrfBv6zbgQxIcS9WILn7XSGLNU_EfQoXn4Nt_RtPaYCBurRtI0cP8I4qyHbye1MrAPH1sYQsYfvh6yPzgO4w1GTojezd7lBpgUS1vI-kukQU3nJ0YakM/s400/_KNS0787.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362115736146682386" border="0" /></a>eunice shares with with antony and massai one morning last week.<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ciNdsmF4B6yqXOjX9-EvKLQVMYS-03AV82pJ8vNd1iJb_6YZ2cV4g3Cdke6is-8g5mzY2EI79lCsUKJEUe2T6VeKPFoJSYfSk2X5_2FnwyHYyTfx80zYcli_5COiLG0-xQP1ibz8qhc/s1600-h/_KNS0775.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ciNdsmF4B6yqXOjX9-EvKLQVMYS-03AV82pJ8vNd1iJb_6YZ2cV4g3Cdke6is-8g5mzY2EI79lCsUKJEUe2T6VeKPFoJSYfSk2X5_2FnwyHYyTfx80zYcli_5COiLG0-xQP1ibz8qhc/s400/_KNS0775.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362113939451925314" border="0" /></a>antony poses for a photo at riverside, where the boys stay. </div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-63932409380570169962009-07-23T17:24:00.005-04:002009-07-23T17:32:25.314-04:00nairobi, kenya<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-a30TOEbf4flQGDire5atl6NFL2padkWDplTancNnXiUJCJDY0Q_lwsiaYXP3qqc8ALEdOPYSECNBK1bfY_x9bSclE7pu2x-zWhoTHXb4Jyki9k69uPMP8aDrAkh9kJs5Gy8vWcle0k/s1600-h/_KNS1077-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-a30TOEbf4flQGDire5atl6NFL2padkWDplTancNnXiUJCJDY0Q_lwsiaYXP3qqc8ALEdOPYSECNBK1bfY_x9bSclE7pu2x-zWhoTHXb4Jyki9k69uPMP8aDrAkh9kJs5Gy8vWcle0k/s400/_KNS1077-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361769836941859650" border="0" /></a><br />this is peter, called massai. someone was trying to take his glue, and<br />they pushed him into the fire. he burnt his bare feet, and was lying,<br />doubled over, screaming "why, why, why". the government official came<br />and beat him with a stick, because he wouldnt be quiet. here, one of<br />the other boys is trying to comfort him.<br /><br /><br />all my hope is in this:<br />jesus christ has not forgotten peter.<br />jesus christ loves peter.<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-4801928099944978942009-06-25T13:24:00.001-04:002009-06-25T13:36:28.678-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">binghampton, memphis<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmw-RoAbFsuq9B1r_AhdVqSpBZS3mfdWORLqYAaQpOkZEBtXWl7qWY9o4hgKFhVUKVO5psuvO5fuycD40J5JzRiEA_bRaAcC0VLabyAi_fRZ9ixoz2EFNxQkBxGza6RReA2n8OeqR3ok/s1600-h/_KNS2240.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmw-RoAbFsuq9B1r_AhdVqSpBZS3mfdWORLqYAaQpOkZEBtXWl7qWY9o4hgKFhVUKVO5psuvO5fuycD40J5JzRiEA_bRaAcC0VLabyAi_fRZ9ixoz2EFNxQkBxGza6RReA2n8OeqR3ok/s320/_KNS2240.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351317852198243858" border="0" /></a>marquianna and qui qui practice a dance in the front yard.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJUt8WG8vbAoaJ-6_N8dLHBhA_5iJVMRYbhfPq1-y8UXVnBHnI3IxuArZpZGiW-PNFZ6zjkBirgd31c1i9F0Lgd8Dp2QPP9YoU3tGVeYlW5Vv4BE7HlVLiDtFRoUmi1w9rVvomjq52dI/s1600-h/_KNS2169.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJUt8WG8vbAoaJ-6_N8dLHBhA_5iJVMRYbhfPq1-y8UXVnBHnI3IxuArZpZGiW-PNFZ6zjkBirgd31c1i9F0Lgd8Dp2QPP9YoU3tGVeYlW5Vv4BE7HlVLiDtFRoUmi1w9rVvomjq52dI/s320/_KNS2169.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351317842655576866" border="0" /></a>new baby ken-- naps on the bed while his older brothers and sister play outside.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPL1wnje2mHQV49nIoCMnJwkH59r0Qe3DCR06GnBm4xhneyVhnTFBUZ3TvaWOXmTHYUhTeVrqaRCuj_dSpVV1SpTUi4M6gIxqSzUZHZEwRb06PJmELqihIIY-IrqEeGkmK1KPkiU-gLTg/s1600-h/_KNS2369.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPL1wnje2mHQV49nIoCMnJwkH59r0Qe3DCR06GnBm4xhneyVhnTFBUZ3TvaWOXmTHYUhTeVrqaRCuj_dSpVV1SpTUi4M6gIxqSzUZHZEwRb06PJmELqihIIY-IrqEeGkmK1KPkiU-gLTg/s320/_KNS2369.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351317827937822530" border="0" /></a>keneshia yells at God, "God, you bring on the rain! just bring it on!"<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2oKFGdYxK3UGPw3v2DoSopY4Z7pF85G9nfRbueSt3cklVJrrHnW60iHWKGDDB00CZaPVy7801fZIWTO-deS2gOVVLCoi7t3s6QA59FUdP6w5i_QOiHZJQb_z0mldjOjQ3b7KAMlqYcVg/s1600-h/_KNS2100.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2oKFGdYxK3UGPw3v2DoSopY4Z7pF85G9nfRbueSt3cklVJrrHnW60iHWKGDDB00CZaPVy7801fZIWTO-deS2gOVVLCoi7t3s6QA59FUdP6w5i_QOiHZJQb_z0mldjOjQ3b7KAMlqYcVg/s320/_KNS2100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351317818337145122" border="0" /></a>tay tay drinks water from the hose on a hot summer day.<br /><br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-35312468346905010192009-06-21T12:08:00.000-04:002009-06-21T12:09:28.353-04:00you should at times go out<br /> <br />you should at times go out<br />from where the faithful kneel,<br />visit the slums of doubt<br />and feel what the lost feel;<br /><br />you should at times walk on,<br />away from your friends' ways,<br />go where the scorned have gone,<br />pass beyond blame and praise;<br /><br />and at times you should quit<br />(ah yes) your sunny home,<br />sadly awhile should sit,<br />even, in wrong's dark room,<br /><br />or ever, suddenly,<br />by simple bliss betrayed,<br />you shall be forced to flee,<br />unloved, alone, afraid.<br /><br />elizabeth daryushknsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-2153824041319278012009-05-20T11:45:00.000-04:002009-05-20T11:47:22.006-04:00<span style="font-style: italic;">do all the good you can, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">by all the means you can, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">in all the ways you can,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">in all the places you can, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">at all the times you can, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">to all the people you can, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">as long as ever you can.</span><br /><br />John Wesleyknsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-522941699868799652009-04-18T04:28:00.003-04:002009-04-18T04:41:54.625-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">india (cont.)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLd45n96nl1FZsCPXRQmLgnEcypAj9YpabUrBSqJn7LyRsOlACSDV0RDqfVrP1PBBHr-Mzd0iYVNaDqM3B7K61XgGMdxbm0Lc9JOBZINAxDxyZRGSW3nbfTA-Aky6myhNfum-lf84ooU/s1600-h/_KNS2934.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLd45n96nl1FZsCPXRQmLgnEcypAj9YpabUrBSqJn7LyRsOlACSDV0RDqfVrP1PBBHr-Mzd0iYVNaDqM3B7K61XgGMdxbm0Lc9JOBZINAxDxyZRGSW3nbfTA-Aky6myhNfum-lf84ooU/s400/_KNS2934.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325946038172456834" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">pastor r (standing, right) was persecuted for his christian faith by radical hindus in his village. they beat him, and tried to drown them. when the tsunami hit in 2004, he asked a missionary to bring help to his village, even to those who had tried to kill him. now he has several ministries in the neighborhood, and a good relationship with the hindu leaders.<br />here, he prays for a hindu woman who tried to commit suicide after her husband and son abused her.<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-85558875013989463352009-04-17T14:46:00.002-04:002009-04-17T15:00:14.301-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">india (cont.)<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXJXyDg84YAEAmruMYLCitKaTFwSA5uZKNfJY0-Hs_Py5UcW1Sh2QRlXs306IdqQqP8fq5khPf2G6DKJGQ2D3mNgtvHWrHEByuW7tT6_yPIK0fpZ-xZQ6vxiU5Afezv-rccw74UZGLBc/s1600-h/_KNS4947b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXJXyDg84YAEAmruMYLCitKaTFwSA5uZKNfJY0-Hs_Py5UcW1Sh2QRlXs306IdqQqP8fq5khPf2G6DKJGQ2D3mNgtvHWrHEByuW7tT6_yPIK0fpZ-xZQ6vxiU5Afezv-rccw74UZGLBc/s400/_KNS4947b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325734518317917362" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">a man in a village on the coast<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-1963452014417440212009-04-11T13:12:00.002-04:002009-04-11T13:21:04.837-04:00<p style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">people love you the most for the things you hate</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and hate you for loving the things that you cannot keep straight</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> people judge you on a curve</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and tell you you’re getting what you deserve</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this too shall be made right</span></strong></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">children cannot learn when children cannot eat</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> children dream of wishing wells</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> whose waters quench all the fires of Hell</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this too shall be made right</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> wars and abuses have nature groaning with death</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> we say we’re just trying to stay alive</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> but it looks so much more like a way to die</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this too shall be made right</span></strong></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">there’s a time for peace and there is a time for war</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> a time to forgive and a time to settle the score</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> a time for babies to lose their lives</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> a time for hunger and genocide</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this too shall be made right</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">I don’t know the suffering of people outside my front door</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I join the oppressors of those who i choose to ignore</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I’m trading comfort for human life</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and that’s not just murder it’s suicide</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this too shall be made right</span></strong></p><p><br /><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">(about once a year, i rediscover derek webb. he sings truth. if youve not heard, you can download his album <span style="font-style: italic;">the ringing bell</span></span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">for free on noisetrade.com)</span></strong></p>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-6684231739738221142009-04-11T02:03:00.002-04:002009-04-11T02:20:29.365-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">india (cont.)<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23-CJTqZ1HDTfnib5gz49pgC3-wz_DJO4UvHcIopK3oK9oii9HM39nmB61i69EE5rkp-75zp3eQep7tULli7H_jOPTbfPUI0GtvkYSxZuENQbTTw9F5BGk21oD8ctcrSCjGvHYVvRZmQ/s1600-h/_KNS1841.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvY3ZiC9uv7PlIArJP3AzXRwA0IOGHYN6ImDDBqrzHDf1c88wdymc654frtHCLkJgnMH99vg4uzOSjYviTGQPTmrH0KTLRlw3AUFf62ClyeuVnZwDR8Cy4dVa8AShNs-m3YgcSqWt2Jws/s400/_KNS1297.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322667391107419554" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">a small fishing village on the southern coast of india was destroyed by the 2004 tsunami. the destruction can still be seen along the beach almost five years later.<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658632414606963752.post-10131873163466213392009-04-07T01:35:00.002-04:002009-04-07T01:46:44.619-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">andaman islands, india<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-3H3EsN2aDeQPH5i4KQ4zBJSv8PLAK3Y6fSmkvJL6vl9jwmVvgfyYbTM6g0IggTTxPZShLeVI73zauZmCdUC_SKcZK3Riu5RrYMwy9qgRku5xent6k2Tx9k5Vd7ROPdMddSkJ0cORrg/s1600-h/_KNS5877.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-3H3EsN2aDeQPH5i4KQ4zBJSv8PLAK3Y6fSmkvJL6vl9jwmVvgfyYbTM6g0IggTTxPZShLeVI73zauZmCdUC_SKcZK3Riu5RrYMwy9qgRku5xent6k2Tx9k5Vd7ROPdMddSkJ0cORrg/s400/_KNS5877.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321819636155397730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">a young boy is blessed by a priest during puja, a hindu ritual, in a temple in the andaman islands.<br /></div>knsayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728682963474741613noreply@blogger.com2