As I said, I’ll some more later about how this quote has affected my thoughts and perspective about what is currently happening with decisions that are being made by the current administration.

Until then…

While anti-viral meds for HIV had already started to come out, they were not yet available in this region of Brazil. So, as I look through these pics I realize that most of these kids I probably no longer alive.

…said, EVERYTHING changed when I was able to hold them, feed them, rock them, play with them, comfort them. I knew all their names and faces, I lived with them, ate with them, played futbol with them, did homework and art projects. And when I came back home, nothing was ever the same for me again.

…complete shock because I had never seen poverty like that up close, (I’ve since seen 10 times worse).

I volunteered at an orphanage for kids that were also HIV positive. Up until then I had only read about orphans in articles, seen pictures, and watched a few documentaries. But as this quote…

…I had never read something that felt “truer” in all my life!

10 years before , I stepped on a plane to fly to Brazil to go work and serve in an extremely impoverished community. I had never even been out of the country before (other than Canada and Mexico)! I think I spent the first week in…

I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately in the context of what’s currently happening in our government. I’ll write more about that in another post…

I remember reading this quote in 2010, from David Platt’s book, “Radical”. What I remember most is thinking that…

This is a great article of things we can do, from Robert Reich, who is the former Secretary of Labor. Don’t buy the lie that we’re powerless, even though it may feel like it. This is our time…”We The People”! robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-wh...

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