“Ninety percent of life is about Showing Up.” It is not the first time I’ve considered this quote, but today it hit home for me in a new way. At 7:30 this morning some folks from “REALL cycle” (Recycle Education Awareness Leverage Life) gathered for community...
Rwanda Gallery
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We had an incredible week in the “Land of a Thousand Hills” — beautiful land and beautiful people who have touched us deeply. Some highlights to narrate our (quite large) photo gallery: A day visiting World Relief staff and projects around Kigali — staff devotion, Dr....
Goodbye, Again
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Earlier this week, we said goodbye to dear, long-time friends Alex and Sherilynn and their three kids as we left Tanzania. In our last few minutes together, we had a frantic 10 minute dance party, took some crazy PhotoBooth pics, and sniffled our way through hugs and goodbyes. Good times,...
Stop and Smell
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“I wish you could record smells…” Our middlest son expressed this as we stood in front of this flowering bush last night in northern Tanzania. We had followed its fragrance down a path and across lawn. Its scent was strong, sweet and wonderful. J and I resisted diving...
YOU, Our Buffalo Her...
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Today was like Christmas! We spent the late afternoon gathered in a living room in Dar Es Salaam, soaking up love sent from friends at home. The five of us took turns reading notes from friends out loud, sharing photos and hand-drawn pictures, laughing, sighing, and yes, even a little...
Faces Update
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New friends for a new year! We are so thankful to get to know several sets of amazing people who have shared their meals, their homes, their time, and their STORIES with us over the past month or so during our travels. Click on the “Faces” link to meet some terrific people who...
A Timeless Message
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Christmas greetings from the ancient city of Perga – a stopover for Paul and Barnabas in 46AD, and for the Wilds in 2012AD. Merry...
Confessions
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I confess. I went to Starbucks yesterday. And it was good. Yesterday morning, I very carefully followed the directions on the bag of Turkish coffee. Cold water, stir once, simmer, fill cup half way, reheat, fill remainder of the mug. It was a silty, smoky, oversweet disaster. The...
Cause and Effect
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The sand on the nearby Aegean beach has a curious surface tension to it. The pressure of a footstep is too much for the crust to bear, and as a foot falls, dozens of holes appear surrounding the step. Action/reaction. Cause and effect. Holes, some tiny and some large, intended or...
Advent Day 13
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E flying his airplane in the restored marketplace stoa of the ancient Athens...
We Are What We Are
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I am learning to embrace my Inner Tourist. Or rather, my true Tourist Self is showing more and more on the outside. And I am learning to accept it. One of our sons is sometimes (often!) mortified at our family’s touristic appearance, loathing to travel as a fivesome in public...
Unexpected
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Land of the unexpected… This evening in Morocco, the five of us are marvelling at a brilliant red sunset smear while careening down a mountain in a Volkswagen Golf. Along the roadside are dozens of troughs of stacked rocks, filled with the onion harvest and covered with straw and orange...
Croatian Friends
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During our time in Croatia, we had the privilege of encountering some very dear people. We lived next to them or bought bread from them or asked them a bazillion questions. Kharmen lives next door to the house we rented. She and her young friend Ava noticed that E had trouble riding the...
The Off Season
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We are visiting an Adriatic paradise, the kite-surfing capital of the Dalmatian coast, a swimming and snorkeling and parasailing and island hopping dream come true…………. in the OFF SEASON. We knew this going in, and certainly it is not our goal to have an entire year of...
