Peanut Butter and Shelley
This blog is inspired by my wife Shelley’s passionate facebook plea with a Wisconsin church to not send peanut butter to Haiti. I thought a more in depth explanation might be helpful, interesting, and possibly motivational, so here goes… http://www.wqow.com/story/15278291/church-to-send-more-than-20000-jars-of-peanut-butter-to-haiti Now that Haiti has dropped from fad-disaster-charity-icon status, it is good to see a few […]
Some thoughts..
Four figures lay in the shadows as I cracked the door to the basket weavers house in the backyard open. A petite young mother, her younger sister, and two baby girls lay in the darkness. She had been beaten and had fled to the artisan center to hide where she had made a bed for […]
Fair Trade? How about B.E.A.N. trade?
Let me first start by saying that life in Haiti (or should I say life in general) has left me disillusioned with a lot the past few years. My first experiences with orphanages and the quantity of kids in them with parents who love them led us to start the Apparent Project-an artisan initiative to […]
A day in the life of…
Today was pretty typical. I woke up, quickly got ready for work and with hair still wet set the Apparent Project in motion. Locks came off doors (for those who know my key collection- I have traded up to padlocks with codes so that I won’t get hip dislocation from the weight of the keys […]
“The flood”
Please read this and share it with your friends ASAP, as it contains time critical information. If you don’t have time, just skip down to the bottom and read the LARGE text… By Corrigan Clay 5 days ago I was driving down Delmas (Port Au Prince’s equivalent of a “Main Street”) listening to the scratch […]
Beauty
This woman has no teeth. Her eyes are unproportionately large, her hair, pure grey. She obviously skipped her last few sessions of botox, is half the height of a super model, can’t remember who she is, has huge calloused feet from walking in the dirt barefoot her whole life, has nothing really to offer in […]
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No Trouble in Big China
My travels to China went off without a hitch… just barely. Four flights, one jog to a connecting flight and one full out sprint to a connecting flight landed us safely in Hong Kong on Sunday night. My travel buddy is Wilhelmina Krul- awesome helper of the seamstress program, designer of our IPAD bag, MAF […]
Don’t read this if you’re even a little tired…it’s long and tedious.
Spring is the time that people in the retail world are thinking about CHRISTMAS. I remember this clearly from working in an awesome gift shop ( where I probably got a lot of my marketing intuition- at least what I do have- thanks Dan and Danette Willis for that) called Commnique up on Queen Anne […]
My upside down world…
The first shall be last. Those who want to be the greatest must be the servant of all. Unless you are willing to lose your life, you cannot save it. I am paraphrasing of course, but the crazy reality of some of these truths have become so much more of a reality to me in […]
