Silver Linings: Corona virus Closes the Brothel
Corona Virus causes customers to stay away from the brothels. For a short time at least, girls are not raped every night.
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Feb 12, 20193 min read
New Year - Bend
When the storm comes Will you reject the rain If it falls not soft If it falls not tame When the wind blows And calls your name Will you...
Feb 12, 20193 min read
Africa and Appalachia
Displacement is real. The state of the uprooted is a true predicament. It’s the scream in the night, “I’m here but I’m not home.”
May 4, 20173 min read
Batten Down The Hatches
I’ve been using every spare moment granted to me here in India to “batten down the hatches” and to prepare for an unknown future.
Mar 14, 20173 min read
Waiting
I am on a tightrope, holding in one hand my desire to win this case, and in the other, the knowledge that this may be our time to leave.
Mar 11, 20173 min read
Many Roads
Today, if I am not given a stay order in the Madras High court, I will be deported.
Feb 27, 20173 min read
Living In Suspension
The truth about living in suspension is that there is no new life I am adjusting to, no old life that I can guarantee.
Feb 23, 20172 min read
Sheltered in Shadow
Days dragged by, I stayed with kind friends and kept out of sight, warned by my lawyer and others to stay hidden.
Feb 22, 20173 min read
Cotton Candy Palace
The palace felt like a pause between my past and future, a memory of a forgotten time pressed against the windowpane of a modern landscape.
Feb 17, 20172 min read
Leave India?
The outcome of this fight will have far reaching implications in our own lives as well as the lives of other foreigners in India.
Jan 9, 20173 min read
Behind The Mission: Little Earth, Less Water
Years ago we laid rough granite blocks (not exactly pavers) as steps, walls, pathways and patio. We filled the cracks with concrete and...
Dec 9, 20163 min read
Behind The Mission: A Home Called Stumpfields
At six-thirty yesterday morning, I awoke to the sound of my Labrador Waza barking furiously just outside my window. Through the muddle...
May 17, 20164 min read
Changing Stride
Celebrating ten years of Freedom Firm’s Growth “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
Feb 14, 20163 min read
Clay Chai Cups
Remember that you molded me like clay. Job 10:9 Recently a group of designers from Texas and some Ruhamah Designs staff and I met up for...
Feb 10, 20163 min read
Living out a Calling
My passion to see young girls rescued from sex-trafficking began before I ever met a girl who fit that description. It began when I was...
Dec 23, 20153 min read
Beauty In The Gift.
“Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed whether this or that, or...
Dec 19, 20154 min read
Allahabad Meetings and Mice
“But it seems to me that to put one's self in the second place is the whole significance of our life.” (On the Eve, Ivan Sergeevich...
Dec 13, 20153 min read
Kids Leaving Home
“I am in all the places in which I've left my heart." Marina Sofia We've had the luxury of keeping our four children in close proximity...
Dec 5, 20153 min read
Following Rani: Part 3
I remember many years ago, in 2006 when Rani was one of the first girls in our Aftercare home. Already her CD4 count was low enough for...
Dec 5, 20152 min read
Following Rani: Part 2
I am touched at her faith in us, that we will do the right thing and care for her children when she is gone. Am I personally ready to...
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