Life from Canada to Latin America, one word at a time.
The Justapaz office is adorned with yellow butterflies. On cubicle dividers, windows, walls and doors, they were the first thing I noticed when I walked inside this week, along with quote from the ever famous Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Tell Mauricio Babilonia to let loose the yellow butterflies in Macondo; the war is over.” My heart
“The barrenness of the poetic task: as if every day we look out at a courtyard of rubble and from this are required to make something beautiful.” – Theodore Roethke, quote found on the ever lovely Calm Things blog. For lunch sometimes, I go to a vegetarian restaurant near my office. The food is okay,
Para leer en Español When I first heard that Jorge had been arrested, I set up a shrine in my house. It reminded me that although I was not there physically, I could have a tiny piece of the coast in my home as a sign of the life and hope that exists all over
November 11 is coming and so is that moment when we all stop in silence at eleven o’clock to remember. I sang in the choir at Remembrance Day ceremonies in school and veterans came and talked to us. We discussed Great War battle strategy in History Class. In the media, we honour our dead like
IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is my lived experience and interpretation of the situation and not the official action alert nor the official position of Sembrandopaz or MCC. Political persecution sounds like something out of those political intrigue novels full of stock characters I used to devour in middle school. Life is an adventure and
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of religion in conflict and in peace. I am going to be working with a group that works through local church, that builds on the peacemaking message of the Bible and that can be used as a source of peace to draw people together, instead of
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