Photography, seeking, writing…and learning along the way. Want to come along?!
OK…a few words. This is my dear friend Halle (who has put me to work this week :)). She is a Community Organizer currently working for The Remembering with Dignity Project – with Advocating Change Together. This project is marking the numbered or unmarked graves of Minnesota’s state hospital cemeteries where former inmates, Minnesota citizens, were buried with numbered or unmarked graves. The goal is to ensure that each person has their correct information on their new grave-marker.
Gena (or Genna) was celebrated 1/18 at the UMN- St Paul Student Center– sponsored by the Ethiopian Kids Community. What a wonderful afternoon of food, games, art and dance celebrating Ethiopian culture and traditions! Enjoy!
(After a resume update and review, job application, knot in stomach…what is possibly left but to photograph the blissful, peaceful Tabby: Dylan.)
In a certain section of the capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (population 3,384,569) live the poorest of the poor. Families are relegated to living among the city’s trash dumps, many begging for a living, to put food on the table. Organizations like The Berhan Yehun Project Ethiopia seek to aid the children of these families through education, medical care, food and school supplies; offering hope for a different future.
The Minnesota Connection
Azeb Gebretsadik, a Social Worker at The West Seventh Community Center in St. Paul, MN, left Addis Ababa at 17 with her father and four sisters. They packed their belongings and within a few weeks were on their way to Nairobi, where they lived for 18 months before making the long journey to Minnesota.
Azeb knows there are many ways to give back to the people of Ethiopia, in particular the children. One day, she would like to establish a primary and secondary school in her native country. For now, she strives to meet smaller goals through her church Action Group (Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Minnesota) – raising funds for school supplies for children in need– not unlike The Berhan Yehun Project.
If you would like to join Azeb on the first step of her journey to help some kids in one small community within Addis Ababa, visit Azeb’s w
ebpage on Crowd Rise: http://www.crowdrise.com/azebgebretsadik#projects
Once child reached may light an entire community…and the ripples upon the water are eternal.
Due to circumstance, I tend to spend quite a bit of time on my own these days. Today, with temperatures above 40, I decided to get out and see what was happening in the neighborhood.
I am happy to report– the sidewalks are clearing and lots of smiles are on the faces of people who are out and about. My neighbor, Scott, was tending to the ritual of clearing ice and snow off his roof. Enjoy my view!
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Five meant
Mark was still alive and barely grown,
Just 17
A musical feast…
A traveling wonder to one so young as I
Just a little sister
Who adored the hero man/boy who
Taught me to color inside and outside the lines and yell, loud.
And spun me about by the arms and legs, faster, FASTER, FASTER
Until mother would emerge at the back door, yelling, ‘you’ll dislocate her arms…”
I am still five, at the heart of it.
You are still my hero.
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The triumphant return of the red sparkle toy
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