Dancing and Singing

I had an emotional catharsis with a business planner today. weird.Talking about business strategy and crying my eyes out over death and destruction do not normally go hand in hand but it is somehow to be expected here.As I was leaving the Apparent Project house afterwards, an old man approached me. “shelley, I’m hungry”. He […]

the 12th…

The last few days have been hard. Somehow I wish the calendar wasn’t cyclical, because I’m not really ready to remember what happened a year ago. A lady stopped by yesterday. I didn’t recognize her until she showed me a mangled scar on her ankle. She thanked me that she still had her foot. I […]

Haitian Christ in Dezolasyon

“Is the traffic this bad because people are trying to get out of the city to avoid the protests?” “No,” I replied to Shelley’s mom, Marilyn, “this is just normal Haiti traffic”. I pulled forward, narrowly avoiding an unforgiving tap from a Mack truck that was making a 20 point turn in the middle of the […]