Monthly Archives: June 2009

Scrambled {thoughts}.

“Now that I have seen … I am responsible … faith without deeds is dead. Now that I have held you in my own arms I cannot let go …” I can’t seem to wrap my head around the fact that there are more toys in my kids’ bathtub than there are in the entire […]

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Raquel … and her broken {washing} machine.

**This post was written as we left the Dominican Republic, however a huge storm rolled in and cut off the electricy so it is being posted today.** It is a sad day … Tamara, Rachel and I have just left the village and we said our good-byes to the women of La Tienda …. I […]

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{Dignity} in the poverty.

  Poverty.  Dirt. Heat. Sickness. And even death.    The Haitian women and their children are incredibly beautiful and their stories of their new lives with La Tienda are so full of the possibility of a hopeful future … but the surroundings in which they live cannot be ignored. I haven’t been able to blog […]

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Into the {village} …

First off, sorry that I have not been able to blog regularly – where we are staying, the internet and the power is sporadic … thankfully, the house wasn’t flooded today with a huge down pour that came over the village suddenly this afternoon.  We have spent the past few days photographing each women that […]

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The {La Tienda} Experience …

So we are HERE! We are in the village of  Montellano…. in Dominican Republic, for {Project} La Tienda. I’m sorry I couldn’t blog earlier, as you can imagine, internet is hard to find in the village where we are staying. I’m very excited to find a source of internet (and power!!!!!) to update the blog!!!!!  […]

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