Collateral Impact
We had a wonderful evening debriefing with Megan Steele Friday night and it was so great to hear her report on the Kiang’ombe feeding / preschool program. In short, things are going remarkably well and the children and community are deeply grateful for the huge impact they are seeing. Megan is putting together some inspiring [...]
Calling all thrifters!
At times it feels like the core group of 4 involved in starting Ameena Project live and breathe it. Because of this, at times, we forget to let the rest of you know all of the things we ponder over, discuss and experience in our times together. We also are working hard to slow down [...]
Ameena & Aurellio. One month & a world apart.
Ameena & Kenyan friend Aurellio in our Kenyan home Ameena Project was born out of the heart-wrenching, true-life experience of seeing how 2 children, born just days or months apart, both in Kenya, can have such a different outlook for life. The stark reality is that Aurellio will struggle to make it past his 5th [...]
Introducing……Kenya Part 2!
It hasn’t escaped our notice that our blog title has read: “Our journey to Kenya and back” and that the title has seemed awkward since we have been back home here in the United States. Ian and I have discussed if I should change the title, but there has been something in me (and him) [...]
A memory of someone
In the winter (like February maybe?) before our family left for Kenya my wonderful girlfriend Natalie invited me to a women’s retreat. I have to say that I generally find all sorts of reasonable excuses for why I can’t go to these kinds of things. They just generally aren’t (or weren’t) my speed. Too much [...]
Life is short
In the past month I have been so reminded of this fact. My dear sister’s husband came down with a horrid illness that led to hospitalization, then acute rehab, and now home. He has a long road of recovery & we are all praying that he recovers all of his language and brain function. Life [...]
This is what I think about, sometimes.
This is what I think about (inside my head, not generally out loud like other people I know *cough, cough* LUCY). Patterns, and pretty fabrics and the endless combination possibilites. Here is one of the two patterns I’m going to work on next: I’m gonna make the dress on the left, but not with a flared sleeve. [...]
Dear Karibu.
“We are stitched together, and what love has tethered, I can never undo” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2JJ1OCz8U Dear Karibu Centre family, When you call me crying, you make me cry. When you call and need answers, and neither you nor I have them, I hate telling you so. When you call and say you’re expecting a baby, I [...]
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping [...]
I am not lost
Habari ya siku mingi! Do you remember me posting in the past of the Kenyan saying, “You’ve been lost” when you haven’t visited someone for a long time? Well, I know that I haven’t visited my blog much in the last few weeks, but rest assured, I am not lost from it. Life has been [...]
