Returning to Haiti, the smells are stronger, the roosters seem to crow more, the mud in market seems stickier, but my room is more peaceful and the hugs of friends I haven’t seen are full of more force than before. The emotions I felt coming back were numerous and complex. Haiti very much felt like [...]
Patient Surrender Here in Haiti, it can take an entire day to make your dinner. From the time you buy the meat and produce in the market to the time it is on your table for dinner, most of a day could have passed. I am pretty patient in most situations but when it comes [...]
Exhausted Leader The days are whizzing by and it can feel like wheels are spinning constantly. I've thought it and I've heard it processed – the idea that the mission we come with feels so far. Especially for a leader, who quickly moves from being mobilized to being the mobilizer. What happened to those dust [...]
Becoming Moving to a different country is weird. It is stretching. Scary. Exciting. Growing. And just about every other adjective you can think of could potentially fit into this category of "moving countries". Sometimes, it is simply just hilarious. Might I say, moving to our little country of Haiti is like becoming 13 again. At [...]