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Archives: July 2011

Global interaction inspires the weaving craft

Posted July 22, 2011 @ 4:51pm

It's incredibly interesting to see how weaving invokes memories, inspires conversation, educates and awes the young, middle & old and just plain old makes people feel good. Having my great friend and master weaver Wilber Qusipe, here for 2 months every summer, for the...

Last Blog - this time July, 2011

Posted July 10, 2011 @ 6:49pm

Dear Friends:I am writing about my final days of village life from the relative comfort and 21st Century conveniences of Senorial Hotel in Lima. It is almost hard to go backwards, but I will try. I remember when we first went to the Ayacucho Rotary Club meeting with such low...

Serendipity in Peru

Posted July 9, 2011 @ 11:00pm

Dear Ones:We arrived after several wheel-well deep, stuck in the mud, get out and lighten the truck, episodes to Corazon de Naupas at 12,400 feet of altitude. The village turned out to greet us, and I was able (with Jose's help) to tell them how I was sleeping upstairs right up...

News from Peru: July 8, 2011

Posted July 8, 2011 @ 3:02am

Amigos & Familia:Do you believe in angels? This two week period has been full of them. It started with meeting Rudy outside the Rotary Club Meeting in Huamanga, who could tug at their heartstrings a bit more eloquently than my limited foreign language skills would...

Routine and not so routine

Posted July 3, 2011 @ 11:19pm

Dear Ones:Since last writing, things have been so routine and quiet, just endless sorting of books and supplies, very routine. That is.....up until Friday. John and I took a long hike this morning looking at some of the famous and old churches. The oldest one is from 1540...

Two-fold Mission

Posted July 1, 2011 @ 10:23am

This is a two-fold mission to Ayacucho this year: Comunidad is installing about 600 more library books across 4 villages, 4 reading levels with an attempt to keep the array of books more or less the same across the rotating book shelves or "retablos". As simple as this may sound,...