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Family update from Millie

Family update from Millie

As we anticipate returning to Kenya for a visit next month, June 2012, we are counting days and becoming more and more excited!  Yet after nearly a year here in Boone, we have failed to even let you in on our current lives.  Sorry!  We have finally become North Carolinians and have residency IF Josh decides to transfer to a school within the state. He is thinking of UNC Wilmington as a possibility. In September he will be...
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Wordsmith, wordsmithing

WORDSMITH = a skilled crafter of words Therefore, WORDSMITHING, which I cannot find in my dictionary, should = the skilled crafting of words Dear Kids and All, Have I been on a holiday?  No, but I have been back to the Horn.  Have I been sick?  No, but I have been “pondering” a lot.  Let me throw in a mix of items that I hope to cover, hopefully briefly, in this letter.  Those random thoughts would be wordsmithing,...
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Sitting in Amsterdam Airport

Dear Kids and Friends, I just arrived in Amsterdam from Nairobi, and I will soon begin reflecting on my time in Kenya and the Horn, imagining how things could be done better, and reflecting on how we can reach out to more kids with more care in the future, and hopefully touching, in some sort of way, more people spiritually.  However, I am sitting in the midst of luxury and decoration.  I feel a bit guilty.  I am on my way...
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Places and Priorities

Dear Kids and Friends, I sit on enough airplanes, and I occasionally glance at the airline magazines. There usually are pictures of exotic places around the world that are supposed to invite you to spend more time on more airplanes flying to more places in the world. My heart just isn’t normally there. If it is a blue lagoon, or a wonderful reef, I look twice. Often such scenes remind me of our time in the Comoros or of...
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Memories

Dear Kids and All, Bob Hope’s theme song was “Thanks for the Memories”. I do not like the words to the song, but I like the title. The last week has included a lot of memories, as I have tried to put on paper the stories of some of my memorable little patients. My mind is able to carry me back for many years, and in those times I can still picture Lucy, Naishurua, Sophie, Michael, Anthony, Daisy, and many others. I...
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