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Poem of the Month ~ August 2011 There’s an old adage and it goes like this: You can be right or you can be happy. Indeed! Amichai’s poem inspired me to create, “The Little Mole Club.” Credo: Undermining Certainties; Radiating Happiness. Now Open! New members being accepted every single day! The price of admission: All [...]
Ethiopian Journal 6-16-11 Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. After nearly 3 days of frustration, Dick was finally able to fly to Rome to meet his wife. He did a remarkable job of being productive while he was here for the extra days, but I could feel his strong desire [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal 6-11-11 I haven’t written in a few days—have been coming down with an intestinal thing and have just been exhausted. Will try to capture the highlights of the past few days. On Friday morning, Dick and I went to Black Lion Hospital, [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal 6-9-11 The past 48 hours have been incredible, challenging, and very emotional for me. The best way I can think to describe it is when deepest dreams meet natural gifts to become reality. More of an explanation is in order. The pace [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal, June 6, 2011 I had yet another amazing night last night at dinner. We went for Italian food at a wonderful restaurant nestled in the midst of a large art gallery. There were scads of oil paintings from prominent Ethiopian artists on [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal June 3, 2011 As usual, today started with a plan. And, as is customary here, plans were made to be broken. My day started with a wonderful skype conversation with my husband, and I was struck with how much I miss seeing [...]
From Linda Johnson’s unedited journals while in Ethopia May/June 2011 withn Reach Another Foundation. Ethiopian Journal Day 3, 5-28-11 Today is Saturday, and in spite of my usual routine of sleeping in until I awake naturally, those plans won’t work here. I took an Ambien last night and had the best night’s sleep in a [...]
My dear friend Linda Johnson is on a month long work tour in Ethiopia with the Reach Another Foundation*. Linda is an RN and an administrator. She has applied and been accepted for the Peace Corps, but is awaiting deployment later in 2011 or early 2012. We are posting her journal entries, several at a time for [...]
POEM OF THE MONTH ~ MAY 2011 May you know True Happiness, which wants only to bless you, unceasingly. Such grace does abound. It is already so, as you read these words. –Krayna The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni HAPPINESS There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns [...]
“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” –Douglas Adams This is my first blog in a long time on the VTH, and it will be my last for a while as well. I took a break because I needed to test something out; I needed to test the extent to which I was using [...]
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