Tag: milk

  • Day 4~ April 4th~ Congo

    Until I went to Africa and saw the children face to face, the issues resided in my head as statistics, facts and numbers… This child is no longer a number. This little girl has a unique story, she has a name, she has parents, a favorite game she liked to play back in her home…

  • Day 3~ April 3rd~ Congo

    Each time I hear parents trying to convince their children in our western world to eat more, to drink more milk, to eat just another bite; my mind goes back to the children I met in Congo. A glass of milk can have the power to transform a desperate little face into a bright smiling…

  • Day 1~ April 1st~ Congo

    At  times when I hear myself grumble about my coffee not being the right taste or temperature, my mind goes back to this smiling girl and to her story… After months of living in terror, running from prosecution by militias, escaping bullets, rape, sickness and capture, this Rwandan child arrived in a UNICEF supported medical clinic in…

  • Day Three Hundred Fifty, January 7, 2012

    Flour, wax, sugar, salt, cotton, milk, talc and a few other unidentified items from around the house… these were the ingredients of Lea and her friend Emma’s experiment on the kitchen floor today. Part of the experiment I discovered later in the freezer and the other a couple of days later under Lea’s bed growing…

  • Day One Hundred Sixteen, May 18, 2011

    One of the most obvious laws on this planet is the passage of time in one single direction. Or at least this is how we perceive it. We may write books, make movies and fantasize about reversing time, but I have not met anyone yet who has done this, have you? So when something undesirable…