Spiritworks

Here I am on my final night at Mama Arlene’s home at Urukundo.  It began with a Palm Sunday parade into worship with a cardboard donkey, frons and cloaks laid on the path, ringing bells and Hossannas!  It was marvelouse.  I was also able to celebrate Eucharist with the children for a final time. In [...]

No photo today.  I was too busy and dirty to work with a camera or even to wear my watch.  My day, beginning at 6:00 a.m., was spent hand washing and hanging laundry and scrubbing the babies’ nursery from top to bottom.   I got a bit of a red nose from working in the [...]

The day ended with a game of Yatzee between Jessica, Mama Arlene and myself.  Mama always wins … still.  At 79, she is sharp and competitive… both good attributes needed in order to live here in Rwanda.  Today we cleaned out another storage area and organized items into the Hope House.  The Hope House is [...]

My mother’s home and life’s work is located on a hillside at the end of the road above the village of Gitarama in the South Province.  I awoke to rain that cleared by late morning.  It was another delightfully sunny warm day.  After a breakfast of avocado from the yard and oatmeal with milk the [...]