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Those of us who have seen the movie Avatar, which portrayed  the potential conflict between environmentally based tribal living and the corporate search for profit, may be interested in the breaking story unfolding in Brazil.  Please realize that I believe in corporate profits, and the good corporations do.  They provide jobs and often support many worthy local, [...]

The Presidency of Michel Martelly got off to a predictable start this week.  His nominee to serve as Prime Minister, Daniel-Gerard Rouzier, was rejected by Parliament.  That is their constitutional right, but it spells trouble and provides a foretaste of great difficulty for the future of Haiti.  Welcome to Haitian politics Mr. President.   At a [...]

One of the really sad things about going to Haiti is to see so many animals that are suffering and unhealthy.   I suppose this should not surprise us.  Even in wealthy western nations, it takes a lot of knowledge, work, food, and medical care to adquately provide for animals.  In Haiti the domestic animals (dogs) are  often [...]

On one of my trips to Haiti a few years back, I encountered a symbol of poverty that left me both deeply saddened and determined to try and make a difference. It was a mud cookie. I was visiting the hospital birthed by Dr. Paul Farmer Zanmi Lasante  – Partners in Health. Zanmi Lasante is [...]

I recently received a surprising and unsettling phone call from a priest who served in the Episcopal Church in the neighboring community whom I had not heard from in several years.  The phone call was recieived into my voice mail, as my cell phone was turned off.   This priest had a difficult tenure in that parish and [...]

The last few days have revealed the frailty of human life. We have seen the lives of the people in the south devastated by the wrath of nature. With the death of Osama bin Laden, we have seen the end of a different kind of wrath, the wrath of an ideologically evil man, whose efforts [...]