Archive for May, 2009
Juarez. A day in the life…
The darkness of our world will try to smother the light, so we have to surround ourselves with people who make us shine brighter.
-Irresistible Revolution
Saturday morning. We woke up a little frazzled from the week of relentless office-work we had been doing, stuffed into our dark little office that could have as easily been in any other city [...]
Posted in Life in JuarezTags: children, Ciudad Juarez, Colonia Palo Chino, hope, Juarez, life, Matt and Misty Lindsey, Misty Lindsey, play, Swine Flu, Violence in Juarez
May 22nd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Amor por Juarez
If Jesus preached in New York City what he preached in Galilee, we’d lay him in his grave again.
Woody Guthrie
Living in a border town as volatile and spotlighted as the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez border will certainly challenge one’s worldview. It has flipped mine upside down. For example, try explaining the $7 million a mile border-fence, [...]
Posted in Featured, Life in JuarezTags: Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, Kim Erno, Matt and Misty Lindsey, Mexico, poverty, The Desert, Woody Guthrie
May 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Future
I hear of words like ‘compassion fatigue’…. And I have to tell you that the concept nauseates me. That we who have so much can even contemplate tiring of reaching out to those of our human family who have absolutely nothing, is absolutely incomprehensible to my little brain.
~Maithri Goonetilleke – The Soaring Impulse Blog
Cesar does [...]
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May 25th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey