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		<title>Oneness and Love are Stronger than Fear and Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much has happened since my last post!  But first of all, I have to tell you that as I sat down to write tonight, my little bird friend from my last post began rustling the leaves in the honeysuckle vine next to my patio table.  Little bird has not landed on my hand again [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=856&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bird in the Hand &#8211; My Secret Goldfinch Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The back of my house faces east, which means the sun rises over my backyard. One of my favorite things to do is to eat breakfast on the patio, facing the sun, and allowing its warmth and light to wash over me as the wind rustles through the leaves of the trees and I listen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=850&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Beliefs to Shift Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week after week, I have been realizing that it has been a couple of months since I last posted anything here, even though I have thought about it many times, and I intended to write more posts about the Dominican Republic trip in the previous two months.  It took about a month for me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=846&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Daily Om:  The Most Fulfilling Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked this one! It&#8217;s from today&#8217;s Daily Om (7/15/2011) Our lives are made up of a complex network of pathways that we can use to move from one phase of life to the next. For some of us, our paths are wide, smooth, and clearly marked. Many people, however, find that they have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=840&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Hours in Habanero, DR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the relative cool of early morning, I am in bed contemplating the number of mosquitoes plastered against the mosquito netting, longing to sink their beaks into me and add to the multitude of welts I have already accumulated.  I didn’t sleep much again last night, it was too hot, too humid, too noisy, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=828&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[X is a Haitian man who fled Haiti on foot and arrived in Habanero last August.  He and his wife share a house that is really a shack with a dirt floor. They have three children that they can’t afford to feed because he doesn’t have papers and is therefore unable to work at anything but odd and menial jobs.  Earlier in the year, he asked Brenda to take one of his children because he can’t afford to feed everyone. The first night we arrived in Habanero, I went with Brenda to his house to deliver a plate of food.  The door was closed when we arrived, and they had tucked some fabric around the door to keep smoke from a wood fire inside, I assume to keep the mosquitoes out.  They had no light at their house, and no flashlight. We told him we would be back with a flashlight, and asked him to help us with translating lessons for the kids at school as he speaks some English in addition to Spanish.  
Being Haitian, he also speaks French, which meant that he was one of the people that I was most able to communicate with while I was in the DR.  He showed up at the school the first day we worked with the kids, but he hung back for some reason.  Perhaps he was fearful of being recognized as an illegal by the other translators that we had hired, or maybe he is just very reserved.  After class, we spoke for a bit in front of the school before making our way back to Scott and Brenda’s house for lunch. He told me how badly he needed work, how much he wanted to work, and how hard it was for him to find any because he was not in the country legally.  Once we arrived, he sat beside the other translators on the bench in the backyard under the shade of a tree, so perhaps it wasn’t fear of being turned in that kept him quiet.  Maybe he is just reserved.  He ate with us, and then disappeared, heading back home.  I didn’t see him again until a few days later when we had movie night. 
Brenda and Scott use a laptop and inFocus projector to project movies and photo slide shows onto the side of their house.  More on this later. 
He came by after the first movie, Harry Potter, ended, and we sat on the bench under the tree and talked while the second movie played.  Although my French is not all that outstanding and he is out of practice due to having spoken only Spanish for the past year, we were able to converse quite a bit.  He had come with his roommate who sat nearby and listened to us, although I don’t think his roommate spoke any French.   When I asked him why we hadn’t seen him at the school, he told me that he had found a job raking in a field.  He was pleased to have a job.   He wants to improve his English and asked if we had any books that might help him.  Now we get to the reason why he didn’t think he could help at the school.   Here is another adult in the town of Habanero who would like to learn English but has no resources to do so.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=820&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes More than a Week to Change the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it’s only fitting that, as I sit to write my first blog post about my experience in the tiny town of Habanero in the Dominican Republic with Evergreen4Kids, the one Dominican song that I brought back with me starts playing on my iPod. It is also fitting that the song, which is from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=812&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updated &#8211; Mission Trip to Dominican Republic!</title>
		<link>http://pnwkanugal.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/updated-mission-trip-to-dominican-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Family, I have been asked to serve on the third annual Dental &#38; Health &#38; Wellness Mission Trip with Evergreen4kids. Our team will be a combination of health education professionals and others called to serve the village of Habanero in the Dominican Republic. Evergreen4kids is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization that built [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=785&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it’s me, and I am writing a blog post!  I haven’t written in a long while because I have been on a journey and very, very busy.  You see, in addition to all of the self reflective work that I did this winter, on January 3, 2011 at approximately 4:49 AM I decided that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=804&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updated &#8211; Dominican Republic Mission Trip &#8211; Now in June</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Family, &#160; &#160; I have been asked to serve on the third annual Dental &#38; Health &#38; Wellness Mission Trip with Evergreen4kids.  Our team will be a combination of health education professionals and others called to serve the village of Habanero in the Dominican Republic.  Evergreen4kids is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pnwkanugal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8925095&amp;post=787&amp;subd=pnwkanugal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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