How many times and places have we read or heard this Gandhi quote in recent years? We nod and appreciate it's bold truth, yet who can find the resilient courage and compassion to live it? Quite an ongoing re-committment, wherever we are, however we apply it.
Beautiful, exhilarating Jamaica envelopes us in welcomes and joy...yet we learn of intense need at every turn. People are grateful for our presence and commitment, even while their own lives are joyous and strong in overcoming difficult odds. It is a vibrant, noisy, bold, grand, desperate, country of deep longing and dreams. Positive sayings are painted on walls and billboards, angels on houses, brilliant colors everywhere in the midst of wild tropical flowers and trees, white egrets and blue herons, turquoise sea and overwhelming thunderhead clouds. Life can be good, is always hopeful, often a struggle. For Americans, there are abundant lessons to be learned and taken home. We all hope we can be of some assistance as we learn and donate our individual skills.
in peace ~ Susan/Mom
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