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a few small good things.
hello there! Every year as autumn hits the east coast, it seems my world tends to speed up in huge degrees. School starts, volunteer stuff increases, holiday prep work for books goes into full blast, you name it. So in an effort to write something, here are a few amazingly good small things I’ve been working on these days.
ONE: I wrote a guest post for Poppytalk blog which went up … Continue reading
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the green movement.
I have this line of polaroids taped to the wall in the hallway leading into my bedroom with a pencil line that runs beneath them. I don’t remember my initial plan for this wall or these images but I know need them there. They are polaroids taken in 2008 during a trip with a dear friend to a pretty amazing place to do some good. I suspect we did the … Continue reading
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work work work.
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My new friends.
Here is our workspace and the amazing workers within it: Sang, my amazing interpreter/co-teacher, is so good at making the books now, she doesn’t need me at all.. She is standing to the left of me in the first picture. Her English is amazing & her patience with my non-existent Vietnamese is hilarious.
I am here teaching a 6 day workshop to 6 new potential craftspeople in hopes that the product … Continue reading
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This is why I am really here: the workshop.
There is a non-profit group called Lifestart Foundation, that works out of Hoi An (& Australia) on behalf of people who are in need of assistance in order to live. The range of people that Lifestart serves is wide and ever growing: young, old, able-bodied, disabled, etc. I am here as part of an … Continue reading
