Posts in "Global Warming"

While We Were Drinking Wine in Boston The Kids Were Dying in Siaya

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While we filled our glasses with wine, the children were dying. While we ate our bellies full, the floods were raging. While we raised a lot of money for One Village at a time, people were drowning and the rivers and Lake Victoria continues to sweep entire villages away. I can’t make sense of all [...]

Who’s Going to Give Up Their Lifestyle?

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We grew prize-winning roses in our backyard when I was a child. I pored salt down holes in the rock garden to kill the weeds. And then the gardener did the rest. I was back in Virginia this weekend. I forget how riveting the countryside is. I got to the horse country during photographer’s light, [...]

Overwhelmed by Starvation? Me Too!

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As I watch the tv and the endless programming on the famine in Somalia and Kenya, my heart sinks. It feels like they are re-runs of news cast 10 years ago. And Americans who are freaking out about the stock market and the economy want to watch it but just barely. See it’s hard to [...]