ParadoxUganda

Friday, July 30, 2010

Take me home, country roads

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Since home is a rather ambiguous concept at this stage . . . I think we feel the comfort of being in almost Heaven, West Virginia, more dee...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Progress, learning

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In 3 working days plus a weekend we have survived:  4 dentist appointments, 6 eye exams. 2 trips to the DMV (but still no learner's perm...
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Visiting Home

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Another paradox, they seem to multiply when we're here at the fringes of two worlds.  Here we are at home, the house where I lived throu...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

culture shock

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I'm afraid we have a case of it.  The good news is that only 2 bags were misplaced between Amsterdam and Washington, and should come tod...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Paris-dox

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Today we headed out to the Louvre, which as Luke said has to be one of the largest assemblies of human ingenuity under one roof in the wor...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Long Way Back

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Advice we received many years ago from a lecture on the needs of Third Culture Kids: always try to take a few days en route to spend as a f...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Graduation, an excruciating beauty

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Rift Valley Academy is over a hundred years old. And on the day of graduation, one feels a sense of that century of faithfulness and s...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Ma-yi-bu-ye, a witness

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"Come back . . " were the words of a song that the RVA choir sang at graduation.  We are still over Africa, but almost ready to wa...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Full Circles

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On Wednesday Scott and I did some tying-up-loose-ends errands in Kampala, like selling our truck and closing out bank and phone accounts.  N...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Red Rover, Red Rover....bye, bye...

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The Landrover Defender 130 has been our constant companion for almost 10 years. Kenyan law prohibits import of vehicles over 8 years old . ...
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paradox: 1. something that combines contradictory features or qualities. Life in Africa is full of contradictions - the beauty and pain; the abundance and the poverty; the joy and the sorrow. Our lives, too...dying that we might live; strong in our weakness; sinners yet saints. 2. a "pair of docs"
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