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Archive for August, 2010

Happy World Humanitarian Day!

Humanitarian:

having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist.
a person who professes ethical or theological humanitarianism.

They are everywhere I look:
They are the Davids and the Frantzos in Haiti. The ones who live and work among the world’s […]

August 19th, 2010
Topic: FB, 52, Newsletter

Suzu-Chu’s Song

The bridge to get there was made of long strips of thin bamboo, loosely wired together. It was precariously laid across a rushing, muddy stream full of garbage and whatever else you can imagine, and I felt torn between taking in my surroundings and trying to focus on not falling through the bamboo to the […]

August 9th, 2010
Topic: FB, 52, Newsletter